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Mac OS X Tiger provides support for a variety of popular digital camera and image file formats. Applications such as Aperture, iPhoto and Preview utilize this support to work with digital camera RAW files.

What’s new in this version:
This update improves RAW file format compatibility for the following digital SLR cameras:

* Canon Digital Rebel XTi / 400D / Kiss X Digital
* Nikon D80
* Pentax *ist DS

Other issues addressed:

* Handling of large Canon RAW files (.CRW)
* DNG compatibility on Intel-based Macs
* Lines sometimes appearing in images exported from Aperture

Product Requirements:

* Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later PPC and Intel Macs

The tutorial begins: Though considered a dying breed by most, dial-up connections are still used by many users staying in hotels without high-speed access, or in geographical regions to which broadband connectivity does not reach. More …

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c|net reported late last week that Apple is contemplating granting iTunes purchasers credits for tracks they’ve although bought, if they decide to buy the album.

If today you buy a couple of tracks and then decide to go the whole hog and get the album. Fair enough(?) – you’ve already bought two tracks at $0.99 each – but then you’ve got to pay the full price of $7.99 or $9.99 for the whole downloadable album. Sort of double-dipping, you’ve paid for the two tracks twice. More …

Apple has released a quintet of firmware updates that address Boot Camp, start up and wake-from-sleep issues with the company’s iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac mini and Mac Pro product lines, essentially the whole enchilada.

Here are the links:

• iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.1
• MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.2
• MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.0
• Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.1
• Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.1

Apple’s offering the following info each of these updates:

This EFI Firmware Update fixes several Boot Camp, start up, and wake-from-sleep issues on [model name] computers.