Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.4.4 Update which delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:
– SMB/CIFS and NFS network file services
– Bluetooth wireless access
– Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, RAW camera support, including updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers
– Spotlight indexing and searching
– AppleScript, iChat, DVD Player, and Safari applications
– Dashboard widgets: Calendar and Stocks
– Software Update and Sync Services
– compatibility with USB and FireWire devices and third party applications
– previous standalone security updates
Mac OS X 10.4.4 Update is available via Software Update and also as standalone installers:
Mac OS X 10.4.4 Delta Update (55MB) updates Mac OS X 10.4.3 to 10.4.4.
More info and download link here.
Mac OS X 10.4.4 Combo Update (120MB) updates Mac OS X 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, or 10.4.3 to 10.4.4.
More info and download link here.
The Mac OS X 10.4.4 Server Update (83MB) delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X Server v10.4 and is recommended for all systems.
More info and download link here.
The Mac OS X Server 10.4.4 Combo Update (166MB) updates Mac OS X 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, or 10.4.3 to 10.4.4 Server.
More info and download link here.
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Yeehaa!
Up and running fine.
Okay, MDN, that was fsckin’ fast. You had the news within the minute it was released. First on the Web – you have inside info or what?
Third update of the day…downloading…
Excellent!
BTW it breaks iridium (http://www.sagefire.org/C1827030151/E20050812201046/index.html) and Saft. I’m sure updates will out soon.
Rock on Steve!
Growwwwwl even
Veronica, holy obscure cartoon reference. I love it!
Give me a real update and not some retarded “performance and stability improvements.”
Apparently simple office functions running entirely within the office network still require a $99 .Mac fee per machine. Hmm, office of 10 macs at about $1500 each = $15,000 up front costs + $999 in yearly .Mac fees.
1. Address Book syncing
2. iCal calendar syncing
3. Automated Backup to a network share or DVD
And the new widgets are sorely lacking.
– ESPN product placement that I can’t (easily) uninstall?
– A google search bar that is redundant b/c its in every safari window?
– Yet another calendar widget by Apple that can’t do the simple task of integrating with iCal.
– White Pages that found 1 person out of 10 that I searched for.
bah.
safari > 2.0.3 as well, now my onlinebanking doesn’t work as their systems only allow safari 2.0.1 🙁
Also i got this nasty ad for the iTMS in the lower third of the iTunes window. It dissapeared once i had removed the iTMS in the parentalcontrol and then activated it again, only on *my* iTunes?
“It dissapeared once i had removed the iTMS in the parentalcontrol and then activated it again, only on *my* iTunes?”
Or you can alternatively use the button Apple provided to get rid of it.
Has anyone noticed that every (or almost every) OS X update, major or minor includes an update to SMB network file services? This is the main Windows compatibility protocol, and I find it interesting that Apple is sneaking up on it like this. SMB in OS X started out as truly awful and has been ever-so-gradually been improved over the revision releases.
By doing it this way Apple managed to avoid any journalist writing about how “Apple Is Now Windows Compatible!” with any real conviction. But here we are, now very compatible with Windows networking, and nobody but Mac users have noticed. We should be asking the question, Was this intentional? It certainly fits with Steve Jobs approach of not blowing the Mac’s horn too loudly.
<i>ESPN product placement that I can’t (easily) uninstall?<>
Simple – delete /Library/Widgets/ESPN.wdgt
Also, if you have multiple accounts and want all to have access to downloaded widgets, copy the widgets from your user Library/Widgets to the system Library/Widgets
ESPN product placement that I can’t (easily) uninstall?
Simple – delete /Library/Widgets/ESPN.wdgt
Also, if you have multiple accounts and want all to have access to downloaded widgets, copy the widgets from your user Library/Widgets to the system Library/Widgets