Apple today released:
• iTunes 6.0.3 (25MB) which includes stability and performance improvements over iTunes 6.0.2
• iDVD 6.0.1 (4.6MB) whcih resolves issues with integration with the other iLife applications, importing of legacy projects and some theme related issues.
• iMovie HD 6.0.1 (51.8MB) which addresses issues with Ken Burns rendering performance, Scrubber Bar editing performance, and theme image quality.
• iWeb 1.0.1 (18.3MB) which addresses issues related to publishing, blogs and other issues.
• iPhoto 6.0.1 (12MB) which resolves issues with photocasting, viewing thumbnails in large libraries, and ordering cards, calendars and books. It also addresses a number of other minor issues.
The updates are available via Mac OS X’s Software Update and also as standalone installers (each link above contains the link to the application update download and also more information about each update).
[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader “DistantThunder” for the heads up.]
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The iTunes update did not fix the firewire iPod issue. I have not been able to have my 3rd gen iPod show up on the desktop or sync with iTunes since iTunes 6.0.2/ipod update 2006-01-10.
iLife ’06 should have been a free upgrade, it offers little.
I think I’ll just stop upgrading the OS, all Apple can really do is start slowing the machine down to force me to eventually upgrade to one of their poor Intel boxes.
I met another brainwashed Mac user in a bar, spouting off how “hip” he was with his black U2 iPod, being quite the typical ass.
I had to shut him up by pulling out my fifth generation black iPod with video.
He then left the bar in a storm.
I was horrified that I was acting exactly the same way to others, so now I don’t mention Apple, Mac’s or iPods anymore in public less I look like a raving jesus freak or something.
Don’t know what to tell you, dymwyn. I have a 3rd Gen, 40Gb, firewire-connected iPod and haven’t had any problems at all hooking into iTunes 6.0.2 OR 6.0.3. Notwithstanding the evidence of YOUR very real problem, I don’t believe the fault is Apple’s.
MacDude,
Chill..dude!
Use your iPod to show off pics of the family of something contructive and not show of your technology.
Apple products are to make users productive and contructive not to show “technical arrogance” toward others.
my 2 cents worth.
Thank goodness… iLife 06 was (I’ll find out soon if it still is) buggy.
I don’t know about you guys, but I am PARTYIN’ !!!!!!!
Thank you! That iMovie rendering problem when it stopped 75% of the way was really annoying. I’ll try it at home and cross my fingers that these updates will fix that issue.
yeah, ilife o6 is very buggy….sluggish. hopefully this will improve. ilife 06 was so slow (imovie in particular) that i was this || close to reinstalling ilife o5. but i will give these updates a try.
My hovercraft is full of jellied eels
nowadays, Apple launches new software that are not ready, buggy…
First bug report….
now when you publish to a folder… you get the spinning beach-ball of death. Rebooted twice, and fixed permissions…..
Apple software release quality is going downhill….
let the flames begin.
MDN word is “former” as in I formerly used to be able to rely on Apple to release software that was completely beta tested before it hit the streets.
that bug report is in iWeb 06.01
PPK. I guess you are lucky. There are a LOT of people having the same problems as me according to Apple’s iPod discussion boards.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=825
Hopefully, yours continues to work.
With fingers crossed concerning my good fortune . . . .
Dymwyn, do you have “DiskWarrior”? If so, have you run your iPod through it lately? (Could not live without that program, so maybe IT is the source of my luck!)
Jim said: “now when you publish to a folder… you get the spinning beach-ball of death.”
I just tried it on two different machines running 10.4.5 and the iWeb update; no beach balls. It works great!
You know every time I submit a story and it hits the wire on MDN I never get a heads up…. whats up with that?
(pulling on macmania’s stuck out tongue)
lol… good for you bro… hopefully it’s just me and not another release issue like we had with iMovie.
yes, I swear by Diskwarrior as well. I’ve tried everything I can think of and a few as suggested on the discussions. problem is I can’t run Diskwarrior if the iPod doesn’t show up on the bus.
dyrnwyn
Had similar problems with my iPod, and found that when I plugged it into the port at the back of the computer that it worked fine. I was trying to plug it into an external HD and had poor success.
If you have already tried then I can’t help you further.
ugh, MacDude. Seriously…
I tried Disk Warrior and found it lacking.
It tricks you into the “files out of order” thingy but run it five minutes later and a few thousand more things are out of order.
Now it’s good at repairing your directory, but since Tiger the directory hardly screws up anymore, it might be good for a quick fix in a lab enviroment where there are a lot of Mac’s.
For the price I just don’t see it’s usefulness anymorem i spend my money on a external drive and cloning software. I haven’t used Disk Warrior in years and my machine is helliouses fast, windows SNAP open, with hundreds of files or just one.
Now to really give yourself performance, is to understand how drives work, how the data is written on the drive, how to keep the drive heads from moving as little as possible as fast as possible. How to use one drive for boot/applications and another for files, two working together instead of one big fat slow bitch.
For extreme speed a RAID O with two small fast drives as boot is called for, with a good amount of RAM and a decent video card and the more memory controllers and buses the CPUs have the better.
iMac Core Duals are hampered by sharing a memory controler and bus. One can run 2 3-D games on a old dual 2 Ghz processor PowerMac at over 40 fprs each, but can only run 1 3-D game on iMac Core Duo.
Running OnyX’s “automation” (search Apple main page) will give all Mac’s a noticeable performance boost, clean out old caches and fix a lot of glitches for free.
Disk Warrior is a joke in comparison, if you need to repair your directory then buy it.
But if you clone your boot drive like you should occassionally then all you have to do is copy your recent files over, boot from the clone and reverse clone the whole drive.
Your original boot drive also gets optimized and free space made in the process.
Which is tons more than Disk Warrior can do.
Having just one boot drive is just plain stupid.
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/Personal6.html
BTW crew, here’s a hint to get back about 1 Gig from Apple’s bloat in iWeb and Pages:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006013021501519&lsrc=osxh
Nevertheless, Rock on Steve!
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Macmania…..
hey.. thanks for the hint. I just saved 1 gig of space on 6 different macs using your hint.
rock on macmania!
Like I said, I’m not upgrading because Apple is bloating stuff now.
Not only that, Apple is recommending software makers who use admin passwords to install a root kit and then use the program to access the root kit to perform root level functions.
So when you use a program that takes your admin password, like a cloning software for instance, they are going to install something without your approval!
You should no longer be under the impression that you are giving that program root access as long as the GUI program is running, the “helper program” will also continue to run, making possible outgoing internet connections without your knowledge and doing who knows what.
I confronted a developer about this and they said ADC recommended this.
Of course I can’t beleive Apple is doing this, they are totally naive.
Another way of getting hard disk space back
Saved me 2.1GB on my iMac, and makes ClamXAV scans way quicker.