As Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard matures, Apple focuses on an incredibly specific set of bugs and addresses over 50 security vulnerabilities as well.
Fixes for an email security vulnerability and a number of crashing bugs highlight this first update to Microsoft’s Office for Mac 2011.
There’s a bug in iOS 4.1 that causes repeating alarms in the Clock app to trigger an hour later than they should shortly before and after the daylight saving time change. Apple says the bug is fixed in the forthcoming iOS 4.2, but in the meantime, you can fix your alarms by deselecting all days in the repeat interval, saving, and then resetting the alarms for the days you need them.
Apple’s release of iPhoto ’11 9.1 brings back support for calendars, just in time for the holiday season and the new year.
Your Mac may be crashing unnecessarily, thanks to input managers left over from before Snow Leopard that are still inserting themselves into running applications. Read on to see if you need to clear out an infestation of zombie input managers.
Public confession time—a part of Adam’s backup strategy wasn’t fully thought out, and the end result was a situation that caused him to lose photos imported into iPhoto for two months. Read on for the gory details and for how to avoid your own clone wars.
Our hero is trapped in Outlook 2011 with no Export command! Can he blast his way to freedom with only the few tools he has at hand? (Hint: Yes.)
Our friend Liz Castro reports that when the new iPhoto '11 (which hasn't arrived here yet) attempted to upgrade her iPhoto Library, it failed in such a way as to delete 230 GB of photos. Others are seeing the problem too, so you should either avoid installing iPhoto '11 until there's a fix from Apple or make sure you have multiple backups before installing. It's also probably best not to interrupt the upgrade process, no matter what.
The new CalDAV-savvy MobileMe calendar is now available to all users, but whether you should upgrade or not is another matter.
One iTunes library, one family: is it even possible? Michael E. Cohen and Adam Engst run through all the ways of setting up an iTunes media server for a family, none of which are perfect, but one of which may be what you need.
Owners of Mac Pros with malfunctioning ATI X1900 XT video cards can now exchange their cards under a new Apple program - if the cards have the right serial numbers.
If your Mac is laboring under the load of applications running in the background that aren't even really doing anything, St. Clair Software's new AppTamer may provide the respite you need. It can stop applications in the background, reducing CPU usage and thus helping portable Macs run cooler, quieter, and longer.
A Web browser that can be automated through scripts that you create without writing any code - how cool is that? It's plenty cool (and plenty easy), and you may have lots of uses for it; you just don't realize it because the idea is so revolutionary.
Please welcome our latest TidBITS sponsor, the data-recovery company The Data Rescue Center. They specialize in data recovery from damaged hard drives along with "rescuing" data from inaccessible digital drive types, old videotapes and cassette tapes, and even analog photos.
iOS 4.1 is out, and Tonya Engst installs it to see if it fixes performance issues with the iPhone 3G. The good news is that it appears to, while simultaneously bringing useful features to all iOS 4-capable devices.