Apple today announced the Airport Express wireless device will now have 802.11n, improving the range and speed of Apple's wifi offerings, and bringing the device in line with the other wireless networking products offered by Apple. From the press release: "AirPort Express is the world’s smallest 802.11n-based mobile base station.
The second Tuesday of every month is 'patch day' at Microsoft, and this month we get the first security update for Microsoft Office 2008. The Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update addresses a number of vulnerabilities in the product, as well as improving performance and reliability in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. The update can be downloaded directly from Microsoft.
Apple today released the iPhone SDK to developers, and announced the impending iPhone 2.0 software. The iPhone 2.0 software, scheduled for a June release, will include support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync - assuring the iPhone will become an increasingly viable option against the enterprise-dominant BlackBerry devices.
Apple has updated their line of portable systems - the MacBook and MacBook Pro systems now include faster processors, larger hard drives, and 2GB of RAM on their fastest models. The updated systems rely on the tiny, but powerful, "Penryn" processors from Intel - the latest versions of the Core 2 Duo processors come in either a 2.1 GHz or 2.4 GHz configuration for the MacBook systems, and 2.4 GHz or 2.5 GHz for the MacBook Pro systems.
Apple has announced the immediate availability of Aperture 2.0 photo management and editing software. The software is said to contain over 100 new features, as well as a significant performance boost.
Apple today released a significant update to Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". Mac OS X 10.5.2 delivers a ton of improvements to dozens of components in the operating system, including Mail, Safari, Time Machine, Finder, iCal and iChat.
Apple has released a couple of important security updates this week. The first, APPLE-SA-2008-02-05 iPhoto 7.1.2, was released yesterday and addresses a highly critical vulnerability present in iPhoto:
Available for: iPhoto ’08 7.1
Impact: Subscribing to a maliciously crafted photocast may lead to arbitrary code execution
Steve Jobs took the stage this morning in San Francisco at the annual MacWorld gathering, and announced iTunes movie rentals, the incredibly thin MacBook Air, and Time Capsule - a wireless backup system, with built-in heavy-duty, 'enterprise grade' hard drive. The show continues through Friday.
Yesterday, I sent out an TechSplanations alert blast regarding a very serious issue with QuickBooks 2006 for Mac whereby the auto-update functionality of the application can delete the contents of your Desktop folder.
Thankfully, I have not heard from any of my San Diego clients who have encountered this problem. However, the very best information regarding what has happened and what you can do to protect yourself from data loss, is contained in a few knowledge base articles from Intuit:
