Mac OSX 10.6.2 Update Fixes Almost ALL Bugs

Apple has released an update to Snow Leopard (10.6.2) and a security update to Leopard. Here’s a list of fixes for Snow Leopard:

IF YOU RUN OSX ON A NETBOOK, DO NOT UPDATE. IT WILL KILL INTEL ATOM PROCESSOR USE.

– 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.

Headlines Missed from Last Week

Bamboo Multi-Touch outed, only $69 somehow at BestBuy. It was unboxed and reviewed.

Android SDK 1.6 available now.

Nintendo DSi coming to America in pink and white colors.

Snow Leopard already more than double Leopard sales.

Music Industry wants royalties for the 30 sec preview in iTunes. They probably won’t get it, since the interweb community has lashed out against it.

Snow Leopard unboxing

It has been a week since Snow Leopard has been out, and we just want to share a nice little unboxing we did with it last week.

Snow Leopard’s “Wake on Demand” Feature

[Wake On Demand] is Apple’s name for a new networking feature that lets a Snow Leopard Mac go to sleep while a networked base station continues to broadcast Bonjour messages about the services the sleeping computer offers. The base station essentially acts as a proxy for the slumbering Mac. Advertised Bonjour services includes file sharing, screen sharing, iTunes library sharing, and printer sharing among others.

Apple TV benefits greatly from this.

According to them, user’s are required to have a 2009 Mac, and Airport base station, and a Mac running Snow Leopard 10.6.

However, I have Mac’s from 2008 which all have Wake On Demand supported. Readers have found that ANY Airport base station (Express, or Extreme) will work, and older Mac’s are also supporting the feature.

To check your Mac, click on “About this Mac” on the Apple drop down menu in the upper left hand corner of your toolbar, then click on “More Info”, then go under the “Network” tab, and click on “Airport” and “Wake on Demand” will be listed there as supported or not.