Enormous security update from Apple today !
Weighing in at a whole 6.3MB!
The enigmatic details from Apple read as:
Security Update 2010-003 is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
But please note, restart is required!
An Apple iPad advert appeared during the US Oscars TV coverage.
Looks pretty nifty.
I expect we’ll see some of these adds in the UK once a release date has been confirmed.
Check out the add below:
Now all I need to do is work out how to justify buying one of these to my wife !
In todays news…
Apple have released their fabled tablet computer, called (we now know) the iPad
The missing first page of the bible is discovered, stating “The Following Story is Fictional and Does Not Depict Any Actual Person or Event”
The Pope unifies all religions under a humanist banner
All wars are overJohn Lennon and George Harrison are discovered alive and well, having had a nice long relaxing holiday during which they’ve written ten albums worth of new material
The Beatles reform…
All carbon and other greenhouse gases are sucked from the atmosphere by aliens, who also remove all fossil fuels from the planet
We are forced to adopt entirely renewable energy sources, and the future environmental stability of the planet is secured…
Some of this is true, some is not…
The most important question of course is when can I order my iPad in the UK, and how can I justify it to my wife… (all comments and suggestions gratefully received…)
I’ve finally forced myself to spend some proper time using and testing Google’s Chrome internet browser on my Macbook.
I must say I’m quite impressed…
Boy is it fast, and not just to load pages, but the whole app launching takes a fraction of the time of my regular browser, Firefox.
My biggest positive however is memory usage.
Those of you who end up with ten or twenty tabs open will, like me, probably notice your machines memory getting filled up, and also the processor can start to churn a lot, presumably trying to manage all the memory usage !
However one of Chrome’s much vaunted features is that every tab runs as its own process.
This is not something you really appreciate until you start using the browser for a while, but pretty soon you can appreciate how this helps keep the memory and processor footprint of the browser down to a minimum.
Obviously the Firefox plugins that you may have installed are not available for Chrome, however the only one I’m truly missing is 1Password which is kind of an essential in my day to day life.
So it’s not quite goodbye to trusty Firefox yet…
You might know that you can right-click on a highlighted word and bring up the OS X dictionary on your Apple 
But did you know that you can press Command+Control+D while hovering over any word, and up pops the definition almost immediately.
If you continue to hold down those keys you can slide your mouse over any other word and get a definition as well. Let go of the keys, and click somewhere else and the dictionary vanishes.
Unfortunately this little feature doesn’t work everywhere. It requires you be in a Cocoa application
My spoulling spelling is often atrocious so this kind of quick tip is a real winner, and another reason to love my Macbook…
Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 delivers improved compatibility, security, and reliability by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_17.
Please quit and relaunch any web browsers and Java applications after installing this update.
For more details on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3892
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
You can change the dock location with no additional software, using the built-in defaults command line tool.
Launch Terminal.app and enter any of these commands:
defaults write com.apple.dock orientation left
defaults write com.apple.dock orientation right
defaults write com.apple.dock orientation top
defaults write com.apple.dock orientation bottom
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning start
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning center
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning end
Then restart the Dock
sudo killall Dock
Have fun…
And only 157.7MB
Release notes:
The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:
an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user
issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers
the reliability of menu extras
an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture
an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server
Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing
a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book
an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet
Safari plug-in reliability
general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk
an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3874.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
And the big news: Intel Atom support officially missing from Mac OS X 10.6.2
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }’
killall Dock
exit
Your Dock will now have a new Recent Items stack located just to the left of the Trash icon. If you click on the Recent Items stack, you will see a list of your most recently used applications. Click the Recent Items stack again to close the display of recent applications.
But wait; there’s more. If you right-click on the Recent Items stack, you will see that you can choose which recent items should display. You can select any of the following from the menu: Recent Applications, Recent Documents, Recent Servers, Recent Volumes, or Favorite Items.
If you would like to have more than one Recent Items stack, repeat the terminal commands listed above under ‘Let’s Get Started.’ This will create a second Recent Items stack, which you can right-click and assign to show one of the recent item types. For instance, you could have two Recent Item stacks; one showing recent applications and the other showing recent documents.
If you decide you don’t wish to have a Recent Items stack in your Dock, you can make it disappear by right-clicking on the stack and selecting ‘Remove from Dock’ from the pop-up menu. This will remove the Recent Items stack and return your Dock to the way it looked before you added the Recent Items stack.
