Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.3

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Apple today released OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 Update which:

• Improves 4K display support on Mac Pro (Late 2013) and MacBook Pro with 15-inch Retina Display (Late 2013)
• Adds the ability to sync contacts and calendars between a Mac and iOS device using a USB connection
• Improves the reliability of VPN connections using IPsec
• Includes Safari 7.0.3

For detailed information about this update, please visit: About the OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 Update.

For detailed information about the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

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        2. Note that not all fonts include musical symbols. You can always access them using the Apple Symbols font.

          To access the characters, I use PopChar. It let’s you view all the characters within a font. You can click on a character in the interface to post it into a document, text box, etc. In PopChar, musical notes are found under the classification of ‘Miscellaneous Symbols’ or ‘Musical Notation’.

          OS X itself provides Character Viewer. To access it in OS X 10.9.x you have to activate the Input menu in the menu bar. You can do this in the Keyboard system preference under the Input Sources tab. You’ll see a check box for ‘Show Input menu in menu bar’. Once activated, you’ll see a flag for your country’s keyboard in the menu bar. Under that icon you’ll see “Show Character Viewer”. Click on it to bring up the viewer. It takes some getting used to. But it lets you view a variety of unusual characters in fonts. The default setup for Character Viewer does not show musical notes. Therefore, you have to go under the gear tab, select ‘Customize List…”, then scroll down the ‘Select categories’ list and check ON ‘Musical Symbols’. Click ‘Done’. You’ll now see ‘Musical Symbols’ on the left side of the Characters interface. Click on the category. You can now click on any of the characters within that category, drag and drop them into your document or text box. You can add any character to your ‘Favorites’ category.

          Happily, WordPress supports the musical note symbols!

        3. I don’t see “Show Character Viewer”
          Only show input source name (which puts US after the flag)
          And open keyboard preferences….

          what am i doing wrong?

        4. My bad. Looking at 10.9.3, go to the Keyboard system preferences, the Keyboard tab:

          Check ON “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar. That should do it.

          This is the third time in recent memory that Apple has changed the location of this checkbox. (0_o)

    1. I think MDN has issues with the push notification system. Old articles are getting sent out.
      I’ve seen articles from 7+ years ago get sent to me.. It’s funny.

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  5. Side note: Apple uploaded at new PGP/GPG public key to the key server today, which was read out from the server hours AFTER their 10.9.3 announcement. They key is listed as being created May 2 and they only got around to uploading it today, making their PGP/GPG signature INVALID until they key was, belatedly, listed on the server.

    For folks who don’t know what I’m talking about, perhaps I should say: Be glad. This is geekdom and it’s annoying.

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      1. I was part of ‘AppleSeed’. Mail was listed as one of the focal points. There were A LOT of discussions about Mail on the AppleSeed board. Please be fixed because I am so sick of people complaining. Google’s Gmail was the prime subject.

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        1. I recently upgraded to OS X 10.9.3 and now Apple Mail doesn’t sync with Gmail, the Apple Calendar does not sync with my Google Calendar and Finder does not let me write to Google Drive (it lets me view what’s there so if I add something with my PC I can see it) – my Macbook Pro did all these things before the upgrade – is Mavericks not allowing access to anything from Google?

          Thanks

        2. If I’d had these troubles I’d have bashed around trying to solve them and share what I’d found with you. I have my Mavericks Mac working fine with GMail and don’t use Google Calendar or Drive. Sorry.

          I might as well share that fixing Mail is no longer on the beta testing focus list.

          I dug around at Apple and did find this recent discussion about Gmail and Apple Mail, which appears to be useful:

          https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5468189?start=450&tstart=0

          Look through the discussion for helpful comments from Chris Elley. He starts out by saying:

          Hello All,

          Right or wrong, I seem to have finally found a solution that works for me. Here is what I have done to get Apple Mail in Mavericks 10.9.2 to sync properly with Gmail. I have done this succesffully on all three of my machines (iMac, MacBook and MacMini)…

          I hope it helps.

    2. There’s no mention of Mail in the release notes for 10.9.2.

      I have two separate Gmail accounts that both work fine with Apple Mail since at least 10.9.2 – so I can’t attest to anything the Apple Mail issue (except that I hear enough complaining about it that I believe it’s probably is a real issue for some people.)

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      1. I noticed the lack of mentioning Mail in the release notes. Is that good or bad?

        Therefore, I’m keeping an eye out for responses regarding Mail. I can dig up the notes about 10.9.3 if you’re interested.

        I’m fine with Apple Mail myself. But I’m not everyone. Surprise.

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    3. I’m still seeing the same lame Mail behavior where not all new messages are found. No improvement here. Take Accounts Offline then Get New Messages is the continued workaround but this is very irritating.

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      1. *sigh* So maybe Apple left Mail out of the release notes because…

        What is going on over there at Apple, I have to wonder. I dropped out of the last month of AppleSeed as it was too annoying for me to deal with the carelessness I was sensing from Apple. Enough of that violin sawing.

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        1. When you have to admit that in many ways Outlook (both for us and for the dark side) is better than Mail, we have a problem, Especially silly thinks like having a blue bullet but the satis of the mail being read. (right-click can only mark as unread, indicating it is now known as read).

          When you can set a font only for your side and not for the recipient side….even regular Arial and Verdana. What is the use for that?

          That line breaks in Mac and Windows are different and therefore all text that gets between the two are screwed….

          That mail I have successfully sent is also left in Drafts.

          That no formatting is respected, none. I know mail should not be overly formatted, but then we might as well start sending telexes i.s.o. mail.

          Just to name a few. But I’ll be damned if I give up on it…. 🙂

        2. Nope, no improvements. Still blue bullets in front of read messages. Still no formatting, iCal still requires additional password when vpn has been interrupted and reconnected.

          These are the things I expect from the dark side, not from Apple.

          Ha, how about older Pages files? I tried to open an older Pages file that was made before the 9.0.x version. No luck. It said: Open in and save it in 9, then open it in the latest version. Backward compatibility? No. Apparently improvements come at a price at Apple too! Microsoft maintains backward compatibility thus hurting true improvement, Apple makes real changes at the cost of user-friendliness when it comes to backward compatibility.

          In my case I would have liked AT LEAST an import aid. Something along the lines of: Wow, this is an old file! Your version of Pages can not naturally open and save it, but we can try to open it and convert it to the new Pages, keeping your older file in tact and saving a copy. It is then up to you to see if the result is good enough or you need to find someone with an older version of Pages.

          Let me tell you: Finding someone with an older version of Office is going to be sooooooooooooo much easier than finding someone with an older version of Pages.

          I hear knocking….it is either the IRS and I am in serious trouble, or it is the WEEKEND!

        3. And…am I the only one who can not believe the poor execution of Maverick’s multi screen handling? Sometimes an app that launches full-screen will launch but be invisible. I then toggle and get it. I minimise it and drag it over to the other monitor where I then maximise it. Worked OK> You MUST remember though that, if you want to open something on the other screen, you have to active that screen first by clicking on an active application and THEN clicking something in the Dock on that screen. Yesterday, before upgrading to 10.9.3 I could not maximise on the other screen, What had worked for months now failed. I minimised, dragged, maximised but the VLC player kept getting maxed on the screen I did not want it on.

          No, execution remains a big problem.

  11. Got a kernel panic, but it continued to finish the install. Ran software update again, had to sign out of App Store account to see more updates. Sent a video I had watched in iTunes to the Trash but it didn’t show the Trash full icon, but the file was there. Mac was running very smoothly before update so pretty sure Apple has dropped the ball. Not a good time for releasing stuff on the day after a full moon…

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  12. You may want to update OS X first than update the iTunes 11.2 if you have an Update All option. I did the Update All option and iTunes 11.2 would not update and I got an error message. I tried iTunes 11.2 update again after OS X update completed and iTunes 11.2 updated successfully. I had this issue on both my MacBook Pro and iMac.

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  15. Upgrade took a very short time to download and install, but reboot took forever. And something happened with the first install, so it went through the process again. All told it took about 45 minutes. Thought there was something wrong with the update and it messed up my mac. Everything seems to be working fine now.

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  16. I usually wont try these updates, just take my MBP to Apple Store for update. But I have an old iMac so decided to try, as expected it can’t update the OS, it just shows “Can’t verify the file”. My wife asked people in her class some time ago what OSX version they use and pretty much everybody had the original version that came with the computer or some minor update. For some reason the updates don’t work well in Asia, especially in China the update servers are not even accessible.

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