Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.3

By Ed Oswald | Published October 31, 2005, 5:05 PM

Apple released the third update to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on Monday afternoon. The upgrade includes over 60 significant fixes to various portions of the operating system including Finder, Spotlight, Safari, Mail and iChat, as well as updates to the networking and syncing features.

Among the notable fixes are speed improvements to finder Spotlight searches, a fix to allow sending of .Mac mail if port 25 is blocked, improved window scrolling, fixes for compatibility issues with Word and Excel 2004, better mounting of MS-DOS formatted volumes, and more detailed error messages for .Mac problems.

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Joking:What another security fix for the perfect OS what happened?

End Joking:They fix some problems that is good. But were are all the people that complain about windows Patches? Not that I am saying there is anything wrong with OS X Patches. Just they have been patching alot more latly, Even iTunes has had severly security patches. WHat happened?

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theres a difference... I'm not a mac fanboy but windows patches are usually security. I love the feeling of installing a service pack and getting some cool features to mess with. But secrity fixes are a waste of time. Mac patches are usually adding new features and fixing holes that are nearly impossible to exploit. They patch more to look like theyre protecting their users. And they patch quickly they dont set a patch tuesday, they do it whenever they want.

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Well just download this update and I see they still have not fixed the problem I found months ago. I can still write a script or wigit(what ever you call it) that resets the admin password to "blank" and then deletes all the extensions out without rebooting the machine. O Well maybe their next patch will fix this. :(

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The question is: Can you run this script on *my* computer?

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he doesn't necissarily have to. I was chatting with someone the other night that said how he exploited on windows, i'm sure same applies for mac or linux or..

he created a website with content to the type of "download this game hack" or cheats or whatever. He said that a few hundred had downloaded it.

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I just downloaded it; Betanews feels snappier.

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update to quicktime and pro apps now supports batch export of Final Cut Pro moives to iPod video format

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