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Everyone go straight to Apple’s Software Update program and get your copy of Leopard updated! (>Software Update)  Today Apple released an update to their current OS, Leopard.  I’m going t ogive you a quick rundown of the new features of the new update.  Engadget.com has a great break-up of the new update, which i will post here.

From Engadget.com (all credit goes to their authors)

General

• Includes recent Apple security updates.
• Resolves an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files on a remote server.
• Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.
• Addresses an issue that may result in a partially installed X11 application.
• Improves L2TP VPN client reliability.

AirPort

• Addresses AirPort reliability issues with 5GHz networks.
• Addresses AirPort issues that may result in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage.

iCal

• Improves overall iCal reliability for meeting requests, cancellation notices, delegation, and syncing with iPhone.
• Resolves an issue that prevents deleting an iCal event without notifying the creator.
• Addresses an issue in which events in all calendars affect availability. A checkbox now enables information-only calendars to be transparent from free/busy lookups.
• Resolves a UI issue preventing delegated calendars from showing up as a separate window.
• Addresses an issue with copying and pasting attendees from one event to another.
• Resolves an issue in which iCal may not delete events after a specified time interval, even when set to do so in iCal preferences.
• Addresses an issue in which To Dos cannot be marked private.

Safari

• Addresses a potential performance issue when loading secure web pages.
• Resolves issues that may be encountered when accessing secure web pages with client certificates that reside on a smart card.

Spaces and Exposé

• Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.
• Fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space.
• Resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.

Go now and update with Apple’s updater and post your thoughts about this update in the comments section.

One of the more handy updates I found immediately after installation of OS X 10.5.2 was the addition of Time Machine to the menu bar. Simply click on the time machine logo, and you can administer your Time Machine settings, view when your last backup took place, browse other Time Machine disks and more. A very handy little update indeed. Two thumbs up!

If you haven’t installed 10.5.2 yet, simply run ’software update…’ from the Apple menu to get started.

Skitch, coming soon by the Plasq team, is an amazing screenshot tool for Mac OSX. With an easy uploading tool that uploads the images to your own page in a snap. Skitch is currently in a private, invite only, beta. But there are tons of invites flying around and it is very easy to catch one.

Skitch sits in the menu bar (and/or dock if you prefer) and when you click it it seems to stretch right out of the menu bar. On the left, you can choose your tool. And on the right you can pick a color or choose to take a screenshot. You can even use your iSight to take a self portrait. Want to use your own image? Then you can drop an image to the Skitch window to edit and upload.

Once you have chosen an image to use you can use any of the tools to add text or lines and drawings to your image. Then when you are finally done adding stuff you can save to history, which saves it to a Skitch folder in the Skitch format, drag it anywhere, which saves it as a standard image file, or webpost, which quickly uploads it to your very own myskitch page.

For more info on Skitch, visit the official site. 

Sales of OS X Leopard have surpassed Windows sales over in Japan. What a great country!

According to the hard numbers, Apple now claims 53.9% of Japan’s OS market in October. OS X Sales have increased from 15.5% to 60.5% in the past year, while Windows has suffered a drop from 75.3% to 28.7% during the same period. Looks like Japan is ‘making the switch‘.

Speculation is that this lead won’t last long, due to the fact that there is an insane amount of PC’s in Japan. We’ll have to see how things go during the next little bit. All-in-all, not a bad feather in Apple’s cap.

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Here’s a keyboard shortcut that is sure to boost your productivity. It allows you to jump right over to the dock to open or close applications.

1. To jump to the dock use ‘ctrl+F3′.
2. Now with the dock selected, use the right/left arrows to navigate between apps.
3. Hit ‘Enter’ to open an app.
4. Hit the ‘Up’ arrow when a previously opened app is selected. This will give you a submenu of choices including ‘quit’.
5. To exit the dock, simply hit ‘ctrl+F3′ or the escape key.

Try it for yourself and let me know what you think!