Apple Releases Mac OS 10.5.4 Update

The new update to Leop­ard has just been released. The 88 MB (561 MB for the Combo) 10.5.4 patch is avail­able from the built-​in Soft­ware Update util­ity, or as a sep­a­rate down­load from Apple’s site. Accord­ing to the site, the update is rec­om­mended to all users and includes gen­eral fixes that enhance sta­bil­ity, com­pat­i­bil­ity and security.

More details can be found at the Apple Sup­port sec­tion. The changes listed include: recent Apple secu­rity updates, resolves an issue with saving and reopen­ing Adobe Cre­ative Suite 3 files on a remote server, includes addi­tional RAW image sup­port for sev­eral cam­eras, addresses an issue that may result in a par­tially installed X11 appli­ca­tion, improves L2TP VPN client reli­a­bil­ity, [Read more]

Apple Releases Mac OS 10.5.3 Update

The new update to Leop­ard has just been released. The 420 MB 10.5.3 patch is avail­able from the built-​in Soft­ware Update util­ity, or as a sep­a­rate down­load from Apple’s site. Accord­ing to the site, the update is rec­om­mended to all users and includes gen­eral fixes that enhance sta­bil­ity, com­pat­i­bil­ity and security.

More details can be found at the Apple Sup­port sec­tion. The changes listed include: Air­Port fixes; Time Machine fixes, includ­ing com­pat­i­bil­ity issues with Aper­ture 2; sev­eral Spaces prob­lems addressed; many Mail issues resolved; Address Book, Automa­tor, iCal, iChat, Parental Con­trols, and VoiceOver received numer­ous fixes and improve­ments; new cam­eras sup­ported in RAW Image; much more.

Many other improve­ments are listed in the offi­cial doc­u­ment: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update.

The stand­alone down­load can be found at: Mac OS X 10.5.3 Combo Update.

Where to Find Free Images and Art Resources for Blogs?

Where does one find images that can be posted online with­out infring­ing copy­right laws? That’s a common prob­lem faced by blog­gers, at least by the ones who don’t want a DMCA com­plaint filed against them.

With most of the online mate­r­ial belong­ing to some­one and being posted by some­one else, it’s easy to unknow­ingly become an accom­plice to con­tent theft. Some­how, it’s easier to tell when text is free for dis­tri­b­u­tion. What about all the ubiq­ui­tous art and images with no obvi­ous author­ship or copy­right notices? In many cases it’s impos­si­ble to tell. It would be desir­able to get them at the source, or at sites with clearly stated own­er­ship and dis­tri­b­u­tion poli­cies.
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Revised Thumbnail Creator for the Revolution Pro Theme

Some people were expe­ri­enc­ing prob­lems with the orig­i­nal thumb­nail gen­er­a­tor. Automa­tor is not exactly a robust piece of soft­ware making debug­ging not much fun.

I’ve broken the orig­i­nal appli­ca­tion in three parts with a main work­flow call­ing each one in turn. Although this is less ele­gant and a bit more com­pli­cated to install, it should be more reliable.

The down­load now con­sists of folder con­tain­ing 4 mini work­flows. Here’s how to get it work­ing: [Read more]

WordPress 2.5 Released

As it had been pre­dicted, Word­Press 2.5 has just been made avail­able coin­cid­ing with Word­Camp Dallas.
This blog is already run­ning the new ver­sion and the upgrade was as pain­less as pos­si­ble. It took less than 15 min­utes, and that was mostly due to the slow upload­ing of files. Just make sure to check that all your plu­g­ins are up-to-date and that none of them con­flicts with release 2.5. A good place to check for plugin com­pat­i­bil­ity is the Plugin Com­pat­i­bil­ity 2.5 list main­tained by the Word­Press com­mu­nity. Full direc­tions to upgrade are listed in the Upgrad­ing Word­Press guide. [Read more]

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