Software Updates
There are a few nice new spiffy updates released in the past few days. We will start with the big one.
- Mac OSX 10.4.2 - The new update for Tiger contains a lot of fixes in terms of compatibilty, some performance and memory usage enhancements, but the largest one in my opinion is the new dashboard interface and memory/cpu enhancements. Since dashboard is always running, I think everyone should notice some performance boosts. This update is available via the Software Update option in the Apple Menu.
- Firefox 1.0.5 - New firefox update, may or may not contain any performance ehancments, but it’s suppose to be mainly a security update, along with some stability improvements. Myself, it already froze once in Tiger, and I’ve just finished moving all my bookmarks from Firefox to Safari (which was as easy as exporting them from firefox, and then importing them to safari and moving them into the appropriate folders based on where I wanted them to display). The windows flavour runs fine as usual, nothing noticable yet. Grab it from mozilla.org.
- ObjectBar 1.2 - I think I have mentioned this program before. It basically mimics the OSX dock on your windows box. This new version is a great improvement on the magnification and animations of the dock itself. The program is not bloated at all once you play with the settings, but it still has many advanced features that allow it to be more functional then the OSX dock. I’d rather have the real thing, but for my windows computer it works well. You be the judge. Get either the free or advanced version here.
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