Safari 5.0.3 Software Update:

This update contains improvements to usability, compatibility, stability, accessibility and security, including the following:

• More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
• More accurate results in Top Sites
• Fixes an issue that could cause content delivered with the Flash 10.1 plug-in to overlap webpage content
• More reliable pop-up blocking
• Improved stability when typing into search and text input fields on www.netflix.com and www.facebook.com
• Improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions
• Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

The 10.6.5 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers
address performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture
address stability and performance of graphics applications and games
resolve a delay between print jobs
address a printing issue for some HP printers connected to an AirPort Extreme
resolve an issue when dragging contacts from Address Book to iCal
address an issue where dragging an item from a stack causes the Dock to not automatically hide
resolve an issue with Wikipedia information not displaying correctly in Dictionary
improve performance of MainStage on certain Mac systems
resolve spacing issues with OpenType fonts
improve reliability with some Bluetooth braille displays
resolve a VoiceOver issue when browsing some web sites with Safari 5
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4250.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

Rumor : iPhone / iPad / iPod iOS 4.2 update will become available Friday.

I was rearranging my Mac Dock and I found this nice article about “Adding Spaces to the Dock”.

To add a Blank Icon (Space) to the dock in Mac OS X, open up Terminal.app and enter this. Enter it as many times as you want spaces. Error on too many.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'
killall Dock

To remove them, just drag them up and out of the Dock like any other icon. To move them around, click and drag.
Source: Add Spaces to Dock in OS X

Transmit, the popular Mac FTP / SFTP / Amazon s3 Client version 4 is out with a near-total rewrite, one brand new interface, over 45 new features, up to 25 times the speed, and one very cool surprise, According to Panic.

You can get a full version for $34 or an Upgrade for $19 at Transmit website.

There’s lots of fixes, I did not see any new features yet but I’ll let you know.

You can see the list of all the fixes at:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014

Update:

The console have a new feature: Diagnostic and usage data collection.

With Mac OS X v10.6.3 and later, Mac OS X can automatically collect diagnostic and usage information from your Mac and send it to Apple for analysis. The information is sent only with your explicit consent, and is submitted anonymously to Apple.

You can turn it off by going to console->preferences and uncheck the option.

I tried to turn it ON again but it doesn’t let me.

To do so, open your terminal under Applications –> Utilities.

Then type : open -e ~/.profile (The file will open in the graphic text editor)

Go to the end of the file and add the red text:

echo -n “Current Time: “ (To Show The Current Time)
date

echo “Disk Usage:” (To Show the Disk Usage)
df -h

echo “Hello $USER “ (To Get an hello message of the Login user)

alias ls=’ls -G’ (To make ls run in Graphic mode – list with colors)

If you also want to change your prompt you can set the variable PS1 by adding export PS1=”your setting ” to .profile.

here is mine:

export PS1="\e[0m\#.\e[0;31m@\t\e[0;36m[\u@\h \e[35m\w\e[0;36m] \e[0m\$ "

and it looks like that:  1.@11:50:26[User@User-MacBook /Users] $

I know that is looks scary, but it's pretty simple:

all the \e[x;xm are for colors (range is: 40-47;30-37) you should play with this one

\u will count the prompt lines for you

\t is for time (you can also use \@ For am/pm OR \T for 12H format)

\u is for current user

\h is for host (you can also use \H for full host name)

\w is for full working directory (\W will give you only the current directory)

This is just a simple example, you can do much more.

****For most linux systems the file would be .bashrc instead of .profile

This update will eliminate the noise made by the optical disk drive during system startup and wake from sleep on your Mac. This update works with the following EFI updates:

iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.4
Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.2
MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.4
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.8

To complete the firmware update process, please follow the instructions in the updater application (/Applications/Utilities/SuperDrive Update.app). The updater will launch automatically when the installation is complete.

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Say hello to the MacHeist nanoBundle. It’s the same bundle of quality Mac software that you know and love… but it’s entirely FREE.

Download it. Enjoy it. And tell your friends about it, because it’ll be gone in under a day, never to return again. Grab it now!

Grab one while it last

You can enable / disable the view of . files (Hidden Files) in an open dialog box by pressing CMD+SHIFT+ . (Period)

Unfortunately it works ONLY by using the open option while working on an Application.

If you want to Enable / Disable Hidden Files anywhere in the finder check my small app Hidden Files Control

I figured that if I’ll want to promote something one day I can use that list, so I wrote a script that captures all the email address to a file.

I’m using Macintosh Apple Mail and using the script editor.

This Is the Script:

[AppleScript]

tell application “Mail”
set theSelectedMessages to selection

set selectionCount to (count of theSelectedMessages)
if selectionCount is greater than 0 then
repeat with eachMessage in theSelectedMessages
set theAddress to extract address from sender of eachMessage

do shell script “echo ” & quoted form of (theAddress as text) & “>>~/tmpEmailList.txt”
end repeat
do shell script “cat ~/tmpEmailList.txt |sort|uniq >~/desktop/emailList.txt; rm ~/tmpEmailList.txt”
else
display dialog “Please Choose one OR more msgs”
end if
end tell

[/AppleScript]

Here is How To use it:

GO To -> System Preferences
Open Network
Press the + Button to Add an Interface
Choose VPN as Interface, then VPN Type and Name It

Enter your VPN Server settings:
Server, Account Name, Password, Group + Shared Secret OR Certificate
Check the “Show VPN status in menu bar” (optional)

According to the Installation script I need to change my partition type from “Apple Partition Map” to “Apple GUI Map”.

To do that a disk reFormat is required.

According to Apple fresh install of the Snow Leopard from the update disk will not work.

For the rest of you that need to reInstall Leopard and Then Snow Leopard –> Skip It and Install Leopard Directly from the update disk.

Good Luck