Apple on Monday let go an update for Mac OS X , bringing both the guest and waiter versions of the operate system to 10.4.3 . Among the modification in the update are improvements to Safari , Mail , iChat and Apple ’s background searching shaft , Spotlight .
Apple ’s Internet Web browser app Safari can now passThe WWW Standards ProjectAcid2 trial run and the update has improved the compatibility of Safari with many webcam . Compatibility for OpenGL - accelerated Macromedia Shockwave 3D web page subject matter has also been improved .
Several networking issues with SMB volume have been addressed fixing problems where a bulk might not mount after it ’s been unmounted .
With Mac OS X 10.4.3 , you no longer take to store Address Book contact URLs in the Notes theatre when sync with .Mac . In addition , Address Book contact organise in subgroups can be synced to an iPod using iTunes .
Apple ’s Mail coating received quite a few melioration with this update . IMAP users will no longer be actuate to download adhesion more than once ; Smart Groups can now be dragged from Address Book to the To , Cc , or Bcc field ; Smart Mailboxes that use “ Entire Message Contains ” and another criteria with the “ any ” modifier now do work as expected ; and Searches of “ All Mailboxes ” can now , optionally , admit items from Junk and Trash .
iChat , Apple ’s message software , will now take into account .Mac members to enable cypher Old World chat sessions . The update also resolves an issue in Activity Monitor in which you might see “ iChatAgent ( Not reply ) ” in red text , even though iChat works just fine . Mac OS X 10.4.3 addresses a “ No data point has been received for the last 10 seconds ” alert that could often appear when participating in a video Old World chat in iChat with someone using AIM on a microcomputer .
Other applications have been updated with the release include Disk Utility , which can now swan the Mac OS X 10.4 startup volume ; Keychain Access explore is no longer type - sensitive ; X11 windows no longer quell in the background after selecting the X11 software from the Dock or with software Switcher ; and an issue was cover in which Preview might only impress the first pageboy of a multipage TIFF document .
More information on Mac OS X 10.4.3 will be usable from Apple ’s Web site . AsMacCentralposted this article , the 10.4.3 update was usable through the Software Update organization preference pane but not from Apple’sWeb situation .
Mac OS X Server 10.4.3 includes improvements for AFP , SMB / CIFS , NFS and FTP data file share-out protocol ; file system permissions and group membership update ; NIS , Active Directory integration and home directory instauration ; mail services when host thousands of exploiter account ; Weblog authentication and RSS2 compatibility ; Software Update server apprisal and package synchronization ; attend to files larger than 64k with Apache ; dependably start out MySQL at system of rules inauguration ; software system RAID reliableness during macrocosm and rebuilding ; Workgroup Manager , System Image Utility program ; compatibility with third party applications and equipment ; and premature standalone security updates .
