Right after a huge OS update, comes this, the newest version of iTunes 9.1 is live and available to download, and you knew it was coming with the iPad being unleashed Saturday.And with it the ability to "organize and sync books you’ve downloaded from iBooks on iPad or added to your iTunes library." The new version also gives users the ability to rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes. It’s fairly large at around 97.3MB. This update is free and available from Software Update. We haven’t heard any major issues with it, other than some tabs have been renamed. The new version renames "Applications" to just "Apps" and the Genius Mixes / iPhone / iPod touch sync pages have been retooled.
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Monday March 29th, Apple released an update for Snow Leopard. 10.6.3 which weighs in at 758 MB’s. Also an update was released a security update for Leopard 2010-002 which is roughly 79 MB. The last major update to Snow Leopard was last November, where Apple fixed the issue where a guest users account was accidentally deleted. The highlights of the fixes are:
- Improves the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
- Addresses compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
- Addresses an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
- Resolves an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
- Resolves an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
- Improves performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
- Improves sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
- Addresses a color issue in iMovie with HD content
- Improves printing reliability
- Resolves issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
- Improves the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices
- Fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera
Operating System fixes are:- performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode.
- printing reliability.
- sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand.
- a color issue in iMovie with HD content.
- glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera.
- an issue in which the Finder reports a -36 error when copying directories to a drive formatted as FAT32.
- reliability of photo screen savers.
- compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications.
- an issue in which shadows in PDF of Aperture book are black instead of gray.
- an issue in which the microphone level in iChat may not increase the volume after reducing it to prevent a feedback event.
- the reliability of certain third-party USB devices.
- the Accounts preference pane can now limit login to members of groups hosted by a non-Apple directory service, such as Active Directory.
- DNS server ordering as specified in Network Preferences and DNS reliability. For details about how Mac OS X v10.6 handles unresponsive DNS servers, see this article.
- the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X.
- Data Collection: Mac OS X v10.6.3 can collect diagnostic and usage information from your Mac and send it to Apple for analysis automatically. The information is only collected with your explicit consent, and is submitted anonymously to Apple.
There are also fixes for Airport, Date and Time, Directory Services, File Services and many more. For a complete list click here
Yes, I know that “Tip of the Day” implies that I will change it daily. I was busy.
Spotlight can be your best friend.
Although not as powerful as QuickSilver,(Did you hear the angels sing as you read that name?) Spotlight can be very helpful to anyone who doesn’t want to hunt through folders to find what they want. It also is a launcher, hit CMD+SPACE, type the name of the app you want, highlight it and hit return. Works the same for files and folders. And it catalogs everything.
So, if you’re like me, and keep your desktop and dock to a bare minimum try out spotlight to find those lost files.
I’ve been on the road for two weeks. And although it’s nice to visit New England, even for work, I was without my Mac for that time and started having withdraws.
I didn’t realize how much easier it is for me to use OS X than Windows. My company uses Windows and normally I am at home and can do everything on my Mac, but I was at the mercy of Redmond for two weeks and it made my teeth itch.
I have realized that once you switch to OS X, working on a Windows machine is tedious. Various little things, like dropping the Wi-Fi at the hotel, vanishing drives, and no QuickSilver, made using my work computer a chore. I am now so acclimatized to the Mac interface that even the navigation on a Windows box seems awkward.(Like the spelling of that word, which I had to check multiple times just to make sure it was correct) Nothing that was glaring, no BSoD’s or anything like that, it just seemed cumbersome. Nothing seemed as clean and polished or as easy to do as with OS X. I think that part of the issue is that I don’t particularly care for notebooks, which only added to the general feeling of malaise.
I guess that the ad is right, “It Just Works”.
(Now my iPhone, on the other hand, was making me yank out hair. But that’s another story.)
Right after a huge OS update, comes this, the newest version of iTunes 9.1 is live and available to download, and you knew it was coming with the iPad being unleashed Saturday.And with it the ability to "organize and sync books you’ve downloaded from iBooks on iPad or added to your iTunes library." The new version also gives users the ability to rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes. It’s fairly large at around 97.3MB. This update is free and available from Software Update. We haven’t heard any major issues with it, other than some tabs have been renamed. The new version renames "Applications" to just "Apps" and the Genius Mixes / iPhone / iPod touch sync pages have been retooled. 
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