Archive for June, 2008

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4 Bolsters Performance, Security (TechWeb)

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TechWeb - InformationWeek - Nine of the 25 vulnerabilities addressed affect the Tomcat 4.1.36, which comes bundled with Mac OS X v10.4.11 systems.

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.4 update

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Apple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.5.4, another update to its “Leopard” operating system. In addition to a number of security fixes, the company addressed issues with Adobe CS3, AirPort connectivity, iCal, SSL connections using Safari

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.4

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Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update for installation via Software Update.

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.4 [Updated: Safari 3.1.2 for Tiger]

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Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.4 via the Mac OS X Software Update:

The 10.5.4 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and sec…

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.4

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Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.4 via the Mac OS X Software Update:

The 10.5.4 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and sec…

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.4

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Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.4 via the Mac OS X Software Update:The 10.5.4 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and sec.

Apple Turns Green for iPhone Packaging

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Apple has ordered millions of earth-friendly packaging trays from a Dutch company that makes injection-molded shipping products from potato starch, according to The Register. After weathering criticism in the past from the likes of

Telstra and Apple to bring iPhone 3G to Australia on 11 July

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Rhapsody Takes on iTunes, Offers Free Albums on New Store

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More evidence of the primacy of digital downloads in the music distribution business: Rhapsody announced today it will offer DRM-free MP3 downloads in a $50 million effort to wrest market share from Apple’s iTunes, which earlier this

10.5: Disable shadow in screen window captures

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Leopard has a new unwelcome (to me, at least) feature — a shadow around whole-window screenshots (ie, Command-Shift-4, Space). Fortunately this can be disabled from Terminal with this command:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

To make the changes take effect, logout and login, or restart SystemUIServer.

[robg adds: This works, and I activated it with killall SystemUIServer in Terminal. To add the shadow effect back in, delete the newly-added pref: defaults delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow, then restart SystemUIServer again.]