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Leopard 10.5.1 Update Coming, Here's The List of Fixes
It looks like the 10.5.1 update has just hit, bringing with it fixes to Airport, Disk Utility, iCal, Mail, Printing, Security, Finder, and Time Machine. The big fixes that we can see are the finder network data loss problem that was reported last week, re-wording the firewall to reflect what it really does, fixing a read-only network share issue, and improving Back to My Mac functionality. Big list of changes after the jump. More »
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Time Machine Flux Capacitor Patch Lets You Back Up to Any Drive in Leopard
Apple's limitation on what kind of drives (directly attached drives) can be used as a Leopard Time Machine backup disk can be overcome with a small command line utility. More »
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Two Possible Mac Data Loss Issues Still Unadressed by Apple
Although no official word has been released by Apple, there appears to be two serious data loss issues that could affect MacBook owners and users of Mac OS X Leopard. According to blogger Tom Karpik, Leopard's Finder has a bug in its directory-moving code that can result in massive data loss when transferring large files—regardless of the type of destination drive. Apparently, this flaw has been around since the days of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, so it could represent an ongoing problem that Apple has failed to address. More »
Micro Center Gives $40 Rebate on Leopard OS X
If you are yet to take the plunge to Leopard OS X, perhaps Micro Center's excellent $40 rebate on all Leopard OS X purchases shall convince you?
If you are yet to take the plunge to Leopard OS X, perhaps Micro Center's excellent $40 rebate on all Leopard OS X purchases shall convince you?
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If you kept up with our Mac OSX Leopard Liveblog, you might have heard that Apple pulled wireless Time Machine back-ups with AirPort disks at the last minute. If you were irritated by this development, good news may be on the horizon. According to an Appleinsider source, Apple is classifying the AirPort disk issue as a known issue. So if the rumors are true, engineers are looking into it and an upcoming maintenance update resolving the problem may be well on its way. [Appleinsider]
Apple Hasn't Given Up on Time Machine AirPort Disk Support
If you kept up with our Mac OSX Leopard Liveblog, you might have heard that Apple pulled wireless Time Machine back-ups with AirPort disks at the last minute. If you were irritated by this development, good news may be on the horizon. According to an Appleinsider source, Apple is classifying the AirPort disk issue as a known issue. So if the rumors are true, engineers are looking into it and an upcoming maintenance update resolving the problem may be well on its way. [Appleinsider]
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Surprise, Leopard's Got Security Flaws
We've already covered a couple of Leopard's uh-ohs and their fixes, but researchers have kicked up the dirt to reveal a few security-related flaws. First, according to Jürgen Schmidt, editor in chief at Heise Security, if you enable Leopard's firewall (it's disabled by default) and set it to "block all incoming connections," some internal system services are still allowed access from the internet, making it a mite porous. And according to Thomas Ptacek from Matasano Security, two of its security features—sandboxing and library randomization—are half-baked in execution. More »
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Leopard Deliveries Delayed at Apple's Request?
Update: Wait, what's going on? Is Apple actually the one responsible for FedEx shipment delays? This is what we just got in our tipbox:
This is absolutely astonishing.I'm on the phone right now with [redacted], Customer Advocate for FedEx. She, and [redacted], employee #[redacted], Operations Manager at the San Jose Express delivery station, are claiming that Apple specifically requested that FedEx disregard the "Priority Overnight, delivery by 10:30am" service Apple shipped Leopard out under, and instead "DEC17" the Apple packages, which means to deliver them by 5pm instead of the contractually-obligated 10:30am time dictated by the Priority Overnight delivery requirements.
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Fry's has $10 off Leopard today for anybody who's not keen on getting their $10 from Amazon. Pick it up at 6PM and you get to bypass the lines at Apple stores. [Fry's]
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Those of you who haven't been poring over all of Mac OS X Leopard's feature list (because you actually have lives) probably only know a few things about it. There's this new backup software...and...some iChat stuff? That's where we come in. We distill all the features down to ten points to help you decide whether or not the upgrade is worthwhile for you. Here are Ten Things You Should Know before you upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard.
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Ten Things You Should Know Before You Upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard
Those of you who haven't been poring over all of Mac OS X Leopard's feature list (because you actually have lives) probably only know a few things about it. There's this new backup software...and...some iChat stuff? That's where we come in. We distill all the features down to ten points to help you decide whether or not the upgrade is worthwhile for you. Here are Ten Things You Should Know before you upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard.
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3:26 PM on Fri Oct 26 2007
By Jason Chen
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Latest by n/a: @Jason Chen: what? you dont have 8 fingers? more »
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OS X Leopard Video Walk-through
Apple's just posted an OS X Leopard walk-through video that's in the same vein as those iPhone and iPod Touch walk-through videos you've seen before. A guy narrates and describes new features while he shows them to you on the monitor—except in this case, he's less robotic (iPhone guy) or goofy (iPod touch guy). In fact, we think we've seen him before. Does he work in the SF Apple store? [Apple]
12:52 PM on Fri Oct 19 2007
By Jason Chen
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There's no gold master of OS X Leopard yet, but Apple sources does say there's an internal GM release candidate, which means the final should be done very soon. Looks like an October ship date is still on. [MacRumors]
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Speculation Smashed: No ZFS in Leopard
There was a reason ZFS wasn't named-checked as one of Leopard's 10 (not so) new features at WWDC 07—despite declarations by Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday Apple denied ZFS's presence in Leopard. Put another way by Brian Croll, senior director of product marketing for OS X: "ZFS is not happening." Ouch. More »
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