While Vista isn’t new on the Quest I did add a new flavor, Windows Vista Home Premium. At $100 less than Vista Ultimate it seems to be the version to get. There are only a things Ultimate provides over Home Premium including Windows Complete Backup & Restore, Windows Fax and Scan, and Bitlocker disk [...]
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Apple has released iTunes 7.6.1 which:
…includes several bug fixes and improves compatibility with Apple TV software version 2.0.
It seems to only be available through Software Update at this time. It was a 44MB download on my Intel Macs and did not require a restart.
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Microsoft has published a list of software that has problems with Windows Vista SP1. AntiVirus and security software makes up a big portion of the list. Most of the apps already have a solution of simply (hopefully simple that is) updating to the the latest version.
While it doesn’t help Vista’s reputation to have more incompatibilities [...]
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I received Apple MacBook/MacBook Pro keyboard firmware update today, on my MacBook. The bulletin describes the update as:
This MacBook and MacBook Pro firmware update addresses an issue where the first key press may be ignored if the computer has been sitting idle. It also addresses some other issues.
Once the update is download you’ll see [...]
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I purchased a APC BE750BB Back-UPS 750VA UPS awhile ago and had plugged my Windows Home Server into it but never configured the shutdown or power management. The APC Powerchute software is not needed to do this. (Although I may install it sometime in the future to see what the differences are.) So this [...]
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Another busy week on the OS Quest but a lot of it felt like running in place due to the continued onslaught of software updates. The big updates, at least based on size and time, were OS X 10.5.2 and the follow-up Leopard Graphics Update. There were two other big updates, based on the [...]
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