So most people in the Apple world today were shocked when Apple release information saying that as of January 31, 2011 the Xserve will no longer be purchased for sale. Apple has released a PDF explaining how you can transition from the Xserve to the new MacPro Server product (which showed up on the Apple store site this AM) or the Mac Mini Server. In the PDF they specifically say the Mac Mini server is designed for offices less than 50 people who only need to run 1 particular service (such as File Sharing, DNS, or Mail)...
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I discuss iLife 11 and how to get it for $7, and also HTML 5 and how the Adobe Dreamweaver Team is making it awesome!
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Apple released the latest Security Update (2010-005) for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. The security patch fixes for vulnerabilities in PDF embedded font, and in ClamAV anti-virus for Mac OS X server among a plethora of others. Download the whopping 84MB file, do a reboot and you are sailing safe....until the next Security Update. ...
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It's a bit late (sorry been VERY busy), but on Tuesday Apple released an update for Snow Leopard users. The Graphics patch is said to improve performance and reliability for Aperture 3, Starcraft II, and Portal games. The update is available via Software Updates, or through Apple's Support...
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Late Thursday night, Apple released version 1.1 of their Snow Leopard Server software. The update improves reliability of the Software Updater Server, improved VPN, LDAP look up, and overall security.
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AppleJack, a single-user utility, has been updated to work with Snow Leopard. This indispensable tool allows users when booted in Single User mode (hold command and S keys during startup) to do disk repair, permissions check, cache cleaning and so much more. You can download AppleJack here
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If you've run your Software Updates since yesterday night you would now see OS X 10.6.4 has been released for both OS X client and OS X server. All the details for OS X client can be found here, but a brief overview:
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In a sneak attack out from left field - Apple has released a new redesigned Mac Mini. Looking like an airport basestation the new Mac Mini features:
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Happy Friday everyone. On Tuesday I brought you part 1 of The Consultants Backup Strategy. We discussed Personal backup solutions. Today we are going to talk about office computer backups. Let's start with some facts. According to Carbonite - "97% of laptops that are stolen are never returned." Mozy states "Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States." Those are some horrible odds that your laptop will be stolen, or your hard drive will crash. Backing up should be second nature by now - especially in an office setting. No matter...
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Apple has seeded the latest version of their 10.6.4 release to developers for beta testing. The new release has improvements for VoiceOver* for iLife, and also USB, VPB and Graphic card performance.
With the releases of 10.6.4 beta's being more concise, we can expect to see a public release soon.
*VoiceOver is one of the many built-in features to OS X to help people with disabilities. For more details click Read More
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