The folk from ModMyiPhone are alerting iPhone users about a malicious install that might mess up your units.

Apparently if you have jmwiki.com in your list of sources in Installer, an app called “113 prep” that purports to be an update of Erica Sadun’s utilities and implies that it prepares your unit for the 1.1.3 firmware is actually malware. When installed, the app will just say “shoes”, and when you uninstall it it takes with it important files from the /bin directory, and breaks other working apps like utilities from Ms. Sadun, and apps like sendfile.

Please do not install 113 prep and remove the JMCO source jmwiki.com from Installer.

(Via MMi)

Reports are surfacing that a number of Intel-processor Macs, mainly MacBooks and MacBook Pros, are experiencing inoperable keyboards when using the new version of Mac OS X, Leopard.

AppleInsider is reporting that users on their forums are complaining about the glitch, and that a lot of other user groups (even Apple’s own) are getting posts about the problem, which has surfaced after installing Leopard. The keyboard freeze seems to occur randomly with both older and newer laptops, and relaunching Finder or restarting the system sometimes fixes the problem but not always, while drastic solutions like PRAM resets don’t do anything for it.

External keyboards and onboard trackpads remain unaffected.

So it was the graphics card after all!

Apple’s released iMac Graphics Firmware Update 1.0, which specifically fixes the freezing issue of the new iMacs, which it turns out is directly related to firmware issues with the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO video hardware in them.

The freezing has been a long-standing issue that had people scratching their heads because recent updates purported to fix the problem but actually did nothing. Users of the new iMacs had their computers just lock up on them at random intervals, with no seeming rhyme, reason or recurring circumstances. People have speculated that it was a video issue, and this update confirms it. Apple says

This update is for 20-inch and 24-inch aluminum iMac computers with the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics processor, running Mac OS X 10.4.10 with iMac Software Update 1.2.1 for Tiger, or Mac OS X 10.5 with iMac Software Update 1.3 for Leopard.”

So go and thaw out your new iMacs by running Software Update.

Upgrader Beware: The new update to the 5th generation video iPod, 1.2.2, has been available for a couple of days now via iTunes, but comments on user forums are popping up that this “bug fix” update fixes the iPods in an unexpected way - as in zapping songs and files from the iPods after installation. Some fix. The phenomenon has already been mentioned on several sites and podcasts, notably in a recent episode of Buzz Out Loud. Apparently the phenomenon occurs most frequently on iTunes running on Windows 2000 and older. (Hold your tongue, fanboy! I know what you’re thinking!) More info on this as it becomes available.

The “bug” that disables editing and adding events to the Calendar app on an iPod Touch as been fixed with the release of Firmware 1.1.2 for the player, fulfilling Steve Jobs’ promise that it would be enabled in a future software update.

Jobs mentioned this topic in an email exchange with a user where he wrote what he’d eventually do. Of course, someone coulda just told him that it had been fixed already via a jailbreak app and he needn’t have bothered, but I guess it always feels good to go back and do what’s right, even if it’s too little too late.

Then again, the new update disables jailbreaking, so everything sort of evens out and we’re back to zero. Wait… not really - our friendly neighborhood hackers and krackers have actually neutered 1.1.2 already, so the ball is once again in Steve-O’s court.

(Geez, when does this end? Sigh.)

If you still haven’t gotten the 1.1.2 update for your Touch, grab it here.