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11.06.08

The update circus continues…

- Video, Downloads, Apps, Updates & Patches -

Two more fresh updates available on Software Update, which show up after you update Quicktime to yesterday’s 7.5 release.

One is iDVD 7.0.2, a 21.9mb download on Leopard 10.5.3. (Your mileage could vary.) Apple’s ever-helpful notes tell us what this update is for:

This update supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.”

The other one is iMovie 7.1.2, a 19.3mb download. Apple also talks about this one:

This update supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.”

Gee, thanks for the info.

10.06.08

Quicktime 7.5 Update

- Downloads, Quicktime, Apple Inc., Updates & Patches -

As is expected after a keynote address, we have the first of likely several updates to come, probably until the release of the new iPhone on July 11. (I was expecting iTunes to come first, but I was wrong.)

It’s Quicktime 7.5.

As usual, here’s Apple’s detailed and thorough explanation of what’s new: “QuickTime 7.5 improves application compatibility and addresses security issues.”

Hmph.

It’s a 60mb download via Software Update, or through iTunes for Windows users. Restart required.

02.06.08

Free book on iPods and iPhones! Get it while it’s hot!

- Downloads, iTunes, Free Stuff, iPods, iPhone, Apple TV, Diversions -

iLounge.com released this weekend the new edition of the much-praised, much-downloaded online-only The Free iPod + iPhone Book.

Now on its fourth edition, it features everything you need to know about iPods, iPhones, iTunes and Apple TV in a 270-page book that can be printed out nicely if you don’t care about trees and nature. Speaking as a Mac user and magazine editor, this is one of the few titles I’d actually pick up from a newsstand and buy if it wasn’t already free and downloadable. Excellent and informative. The Doodler gives it high marks.

To get it, click here so that The Free iPod + iPhone Book 4 gets loaded onto iTunes for subscription, and you won’t have to worry about missing it and other iLounge Library online publications.

29.05.08

The deal with Security Update 2008-03

- Security, Downloads, Operating System, Updates & Patches -

For those of you new 10.5.3 updaters who are wondering what this Security Update 2008-03 is and why it isn’t popping up on Software Update, that’s because it isn’t meant for you, you greedy updater you.

You don’t need it, for one thing. Everything in it is already in the 10.5.3 update.

Actually, the Security Update is meant for pre-10.5.3 Leopard systems (10.5 to 10.5.2) and Tiger 10.4.11 users only. Mileage may vary, depending on your machine type and OS client, and can range from 72 to 118mb.

This security update is for those who want to wait out the potential hitches that can result from Leopard updates, like the few nasties that popped up from the 10.5.2 update last Feb., and for the folk who haven’t yet gone on to Leopard and are feeling abandoned in Tiger’s last iteration, yet still want to plug the security holes. If this applies to you, go get it here.

Just a quick heads-up.

09.01.08

iPhone: Name that tune

- Audio, Downloads, Apps, Free Stuff, iPhone -

We all know the feeling. Hearing that great song on the radio that you’d give up your Mac to remember the artist and title. Or come across this great new song playing in someone’s car or in the mall that you’d give up your iPod to know the name of. Well, these days all you’d really need is your iPhone, a wifi connection and Listen.

TUAW’s Erica Sadun, lead purveyor of free crazysexycool apps and utilities for the iPhone has come up with with another winner.

Imagine you hear that mysterious song somewhere with wifi, and you happen to have your iPhone. Fire up Erica’s Listen, put your iPhone near the audio, wait a few seconds, and you get the artist, title and album the song came from, right on the multi-touch screen. Sounds too good to be true.

Listen samples five seconds of audio, then goes online to consult a database, matches the sample to the music and spits back the song info. Is that crazysexycool or what?

I used it in the office today, and people went oooh and ahhh. Granted, it doesn’t catch everything. It caught maybe three out of every five (it’s still a beta, after all), but sample a reasonably popular song and it’d get it every time. And it’s not really a new idea - there are cellphones with this sort of feature out already for a while now. But hey, who cares? This one’s sure to make it into the Doodler’s Top 10 Favorites for 2008.

The Listen beta is available for your iPhone via Installer beginning today.

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