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Apple Marketing Gets Me Again

September 14, 2009

I have to give Apple credit, they do a great job of segmenting their products into different price points and feature sets. Despite being one of the people saying no one needs that much space for music when the original iPods were announced I eventually bought one, which was my first Apple product. I’ve [...]

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Apple Hardware Test

July 14, 2009

After all my problems with the OS X 10.5.7 update the next step was to run hardware diagnostics. No sense doing a third fresh install unless I knew it wasn’t a hardware problem unearthed by the upgrade.
Unknown to me, until I started checking was that every Mac comes with hardware diagnostics on the bundled DVD. [...]

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Apple Software Updates

September 25, 2008

I finally got around to applying to recent Apple updates to my iMac. I’ve been queueing them up starting with the iTunes 8 update. Part of the reason is I wanted to limit changes while I was recovering my Windows Home Server. But the main reason was I’ve come to expect problems when applying updates [...]

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OS X 10.5.5 Released

September 15, 2008

Apple has released OS X 10.5.5 today. Apple’s release notes were quite detailed this time. They also released a separate bulletin with the security related updates that are included.
I installed the update on my MacBook a little while ago without incident. It was a 136MB download through software update on my Intel MacBook. It’s also [...]

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Apple Update iLife Apps

July 23, 2008

Apple released patches for several apps in the iLife ‘08 Suite. iPhoto 7.1.4 is the only one that contains feature enhancements in addition to the typical “compatibility” and “stability updates”:
This update contains new holiday greeting card and postcard themes for use with Apple print products.
There’s also iMovie 7.1.4, iWeb 2.0.4, and a general iLife Support [...]

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Goodbye .Mac, Hello MobileMe

July 8, 2008

Apple’s .Mac brand is in it’s final days and will be re-branded MobileMe to coincide with the iPhone 3G launch. While this is mostly a branding change for existing .mac users, there is one feature that is already lost. Bookmarks are no longer available via the web, although they will still sync between Macs. At [...]

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Apple Releases Airport Utility 5.3.1

March 11, 2008

Apple release Airport Utility 5.3.1 today. It was a 10.6MB download through Apple’s Software Update on my Intel Macs running Leopard. The update is described as:
The AirPort Base Station Update 2008-001 includes general fixes and compatibility updates for the following applications:
- AirPort Utility
- AirPort Disk Utility
- AirPort Base Station Agent
I haven’t seen the update posted [...]

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Apple Releases Three Updates

October 25, 2007

Apple released updates for iLife, iDVD and some 24″ iMacs. The only update I received through Software Update was the iLife Support update.
iLife Support 8.1.1 is a 10.3MB download through Software Update in Intel Macs and a 6MB standalone download. According to Apple this address general compatibility issues and contains minor specifics. Nothing specific.
iDVD 6.0.4 [...]

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Ready For OS X 10.5 Leopard?

October 22, 2007

[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.]
It’s time to start going through my apps and seeing which are ready for OS X 10.5 Leopard and which aren’t. I’ll start with my most used [...]

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OS X 10.5 Leopard Gets Official

October 16, 2007

Apple made an October 26th release of OS X 10.5 Leopard official today when they updated their store and made it available for pre-order. It’s priced at $129 for a single user and $199 for a Family Pack. The Family pack allows installation on up to 5 computers in the same household. True to past [...]

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Apple Updates iWork, iWeb, iTunes (Windows) & Firmware

September 27, 2007

Hot on the heals of yesterday’s iLife updates Apple has released updates to four applications and a bunch of firmware.
iWeb 2.0.2 was released. You’ll need the iLife Support 8.1 update that was released yesterday before you can install this one. It’s a 18.4MB download through Software Update (Intel) and a 17MB standalone download. Apple tells [...]

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