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Snow Leopard Security Update problems

Saturday, 04 February 2012

Snow Leopard Security Update killing PowerPC Apps using Rosetta — The odd CUI Error has been experienced by some users after upgrading to OS X 10.7.3 earlier this week, but a security update released for Mac OS X Snow Leopard at the same time is also causing major issues for users who rely on older PowerPC applications that run under Apple's Rosetta framework. 

How to set up Time Machine — I've met a couple of people who bought Time Capsules and had them sitting there, not even plugged in, expecting them to be magically backing up their Macs, so perhaps Macworld's guide to Time Machine is a good idea. 

Apple's Town Hall meeting emphasised corporate responsibility — Last week, following Apple's blockbuster earnings report, the company held an internal town hall meeting with employees to discuss "exciting new things". One was new employee hardware discounts, but little else from that meeting has made its way off of Apple's campus. 
The Verge now reports it has been hearing discussion of the company's philanthropic efforts was a notable focus of the event, with Tim Cook spending "quite a bit of time" talking about the company's work in that area. One of Cook's first visible actions as CEO was to institute a charitable matching program for employees under which the company would match donations up to $10,000 per employee per year, a move marking a distinct departure from the notably unphilanthropic Apple of Steve Jobs. 
That program resulted in $2.6 million in donations in its first two months of existence. 
[I'm pleased to hear it. Gloating about record profits and all those Apple billions while Foxconn workers sweat just makes me sick.]

Apple seeds new Safari build to developers — Following the release of Safari 5.1.3 earlier this week (bundled with the OS X Lion 10.7.3 update) Apple has seeded Safari 5.1.4 to registered developers. The release includes improvements to both JavaScript performance, and the way in which the browser handles PDF printing.

Sign up for a Dropbox Beta and get 5GB more space — The cloud storage service has a nice little treat for any brave enough to beta test their latest app. Dropbox is offering up to an extra 5G of storage for testing their new automatic upload feature. For every 500MB of photos and videos you automatically upload, Dropbox rewards you with a 500MB space bonus, up to 5GB. Automatic upload seems to be the primary feature added in this beta build, but there’s more listed.