The 10.6.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:
- improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
- address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
- address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
- resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
- resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
- improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
- improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
- address a color issue in iMovie with HD content
- improve printing reliability
- resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
- improve 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 cameraFor detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
Updated to OS 10.5.8 through the combo update? You may get a lot of permissions repaired every time you run disk utility. Some of them are “scaring” I must admit…
That’s the reason why I made some investigations to find a solution on how to fix them.
And the solution is easy but annoying: install the combo update twice in a row with no permission repairs in between.
Worked great on my Macs.
I can’t wait no more to get 10.6… Here is a small collection of the “release dates” according to many known Apple bloggers:
- Daring Fireball John Gruber says August 28th.
- MacDailyNews: Friday, August 28th.
- TheAppleBlog reports rumors about August 24th.
- TUAW is supporting what Apple claimed: September.
- MacWorld: September too.
- LifeHacker: September too.
- MacRumors’ Forums: September 25th 2009 (Friday) for the release & “New iMacs released on 22nd September, 2009 with Snow Leopard.”
- Some other blogs thought it was June 8th…
I’d like it to be released as soon as possible, and we all Mac Fanatics know how long are 3 days of waiting… but I do believe it will be released and shipped in middle-September.
Because it seems there will be an Apple Event on September 7th…
Apple really wants to focus on the foundations and stability of the system with Snow Leopard, this means, to me, it can’t be released before September since it’s not about design and UI this time but it’s the Core.
You can see for example, the following image showing how slim the applications will be on SL compared to Leopard:
A new “Aurora” wallpaper and 34 other superb desktop images extracted from the upcoming version of Mac OS X code named “Snow Leopard”.
Click on a given wallpaper to see it in a full 2560 x 1600 resolution.
Enjoy!
Apple released the next — and potentially last — upgrade to its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system Wednesday afternoon, bringing minor tweaks before the debut of Snow Leopard in September.
The latest update to Leopard includes security fixes, improves Bluetooth reliability, and upgrades Safari to version 4.0.2. It is available for Mac users via software update, or a 274MB file for download from Apple. The combo update is also available at 759MB.
“The Mac OS X v10.5.8 Update is recommended for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac,” reads an Apple statement.
The list of fixes for Leopard are as follows:
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Many websites and most of Mac specialists thought Snow Leopard would have been released on first quarter of 2009, but still nothing…
The next generation of OS X should be the key event of the upcoming WWDC 09 (june 08-12); Â as a result, 2 operating systems for this amazing World Wide Developers Connection: Mac OS 10.6 and iPhone OS 3.0!
A number of changes have been confirmed though, such as a:
- Rewritten Cocoa-based finder,
- HFS+ file compression,
- Improved support for Microsoft Exchange in Mail, iCal and Address Book,
- QuickTime X which will feature optimized support for modern codecs (it is rumored that all of QT Pro features will be available for free),
- OpenCL (Open Computing Language) will allow developers to more easily code applications to take advantage of the GPU for non-graphics computing purposes,
- Grand Central: a parallel-programming technology that aims to take greater advantage of modern multi-core CPUs, included in all current Macs,
- Support for up to a theoretical 16 terabytes of RAM by further developing 64-bit kernel technologies,
- A smaller hard drive and RAM footprint and faster installation times, under 15 minutes versus over an hour for Mac OS X v10.5,
- Stacks will receive an update, allowing users to drill-down into the contents of subfolders within the stacks interface,
- A 64-bit kernel which provides a complete 64-bit environment for applications, along with 32-bit support for older Macs. This completes a long-running attempt by Apple to completely unify their products in 64-bit capabilities, dating back to Apple’s original adoption of the PowerPC in 1994, which anticipated 64-bit CPUs using the same architecture. With the PowerPC G5 Apple incrementally built 64-bit support into OS X starting with Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther” in 2003
- The next version of BootCamp is said to have an easier way to share files between your Windows and Mac partition, making it easier to work on both operating systems.
Possibly quad-core iMacs to come…
Here’s an easy to follow tutorial on how to migrate from a PPC Mac to a Mac-Intel, the aim of this tutorial is to avoid using the migrate utility from OS X which isn’t still 100% safe.
- Repair the hard drive and permissions using Disk Utility.
- Backup your data. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there’s some other problem.
- Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
- Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
- Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.
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An error message that I don’t wish none of you to meet, but it’s happening to me these days on two Mac’s.
This post comes after the one I announced in the OS X update, not sure it’s OS 10.5.6 but I have some doubts on that.
Solution 1 is the following:
- Turn off iDisk Sync (click the Stop button in the iDisk pane of MobileMe preferences, in System Preferences).
- Restart your computer.
- From the Go menu, choose Home.
- Open the Library folder.
- For Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier: Remove the Mirrors folder
- For Mac OS X 10.5: Remove the FileSync folder
- Restart your computer.
- Re-enable iDisk Sync.
Solution 2:
Someone calling themselves dotwaffle on the mac discussion boards gave the following solution:
… disconnect the iDisk, turn off Syncing, open a Finder with the iDisk mounted online, then opened iTerm (Terminal will do)
I navigated to my iDisk (in my case cd /Volumes/dotwaffle) and ran the following command:
sudo rm -rf .FileSync/ .TemporaryItems/ ._.TemporaryItems .com.apple.timemachine.supported
Solution 3:
