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Posted on 10/31/2005 2:29:07 PM PST by Panerai
Apple on Monday released an update for Mac OS X, bringing both the client and server versions of the operating system to 10.4.3. Among the changes in the update are improvements to Safari, Mail, iChat and Apple’s desktop searching tool, Spotlight.
Apple’s Internet Web browser Safari can now pass The Web Standards Project Acid2 test and the update has improved the compatibility of Safari with many webcams. Compatibility for OpenGL-accelerated Macromedia Shockwave 3D webpage content has also been improved.
Several networking issues with SMB volumes have been addressed fixing problems where a volume might not mount after it’s been unmounted.
Changes in the Finder include improving responsiveness during Spotlight searches and Spotlight comments entered in the Finder are now preserved when using iDisk syncing. The update also addressed an issue in which Spotlight cannot find a file after using iPhoto to rename it if the filename originally contained an ampersand, according to Apple.
With Mac OS X 10.4.3, you no longer need to store Address Book contact URLs in the Notes field when syncing with .Mac. In addition, Address Book contacts organized in subgroups can be synced to an iPod using iTunes.
Apple’s Mail application received quite a few improvements with this update. IMAP users will no longer be prompted to download attachments more than once; Smart Groups can now be dragged from Address Book to the To, Cc, or Bcc field; Smart Mailboxes that use “Entire Message Contains” and another criteria with the “any” qualifier now work as expected; and Searches of “All Mailboxes” can now, optionally, include items from Junk and Trash.
iChat, Apple’s messaging application, will now allow .Mac members to enable encrypted chat sessions.
(Excerpt) Read more at macworld.com ...
10.4.3 Released ping
I bought apple stock a few weeks ago. They are poised to sell 8 million to 10 million ipods this christmas.
Ipod and xbox 360 are going to be the hottest electronics items for christmas this year.
Xbox 360 are already sold out for the release and into part of december.
not flawless and perfect - but much better than microsoft's OS in most ways.
Not perfect. But far better than anything else on the market.
They were.
They just branched out into sublime, and that requires some refinements.
Five years ago, I had a few bucks to invest and intended on buying some Apple stock which was then +-$6.00/share. Everyone told me that Apple would go out of business within a year so I bought Microsoft and Corel. I don't listen to the experts anymore.
I really like the IMac. It's so much faster than the G3 that it's replacing. The G3 had begun to get really squirrelly lately with new software. It stayed squirrelly even after I restarted it on a separate hard drive with a bare system, so I knew it was time for a new machine.
not much will change, really. Only thing the ability of mac fanatics to argue the utter superiority of mac hardware will be rendered moot.
IIRC they haven't exactly announced what chips they'll be using, but most likely they'll lose one of their selling points - an efficient, quiet cpu - unless they go with something like the pentium M for everything.
Well...once most every piece of PC software will be easily ported to the Mac, there won't really be any reason to buy a PC any longer. :o)
Once Mac increases its market share from irrelevant to respectable it will become the target of hackers, spyware, adware, and other evil doers and Macsters like you will pine for the good old days when the only people who brought Macs were teachers, graphic artists, publishers, and other leftists.
Good tagline!
Ah, the old canards..... Leftists like Rush Limbaugh, chip pioneer Carver Mead, the U.S. Army Ballistics simulation supercomputer, many on FR, the U.S. submarine fleet (signal processing clusters), etc., etc.
Unix is a superior architecture to the duct-tape and baling-wire that is XP.
All putting money into the pockets of the Hate America First Leftist, Steven Jobs.
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I haven't seen anyone here claim that...
I would argue that CPUs don't make any noise... it's the fans to cool them that make the noise. Apple's engineers designed superior cooling zones and ultra quiet fans for the G5s... that's what makes them so quiet. I suspect that the Apple Intels will be just as quiet. As for the efficiency, we'll let OSX take care of that.
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