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Hundreds of bugs fixed. Nearly every area of the OS you encounter had issues resolved. See a complete list at About the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update. A number of security patches are included as well.

Available via Software Update or standalone installer, both the regular and server versions are combo installers.

This lengthy Apple Support article addresses the following two issues:

Issue 1: The Send button may be dimmed (“grayed out”) in Mail messages, preventing you from sending any message.

Issue 2: When trying to send email message in Mail, an alert similar to this may appear:

Cannot send message using the server Example SMTP The server ’smtp.example.com’ cannot be contacted on port 25. Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click Try Later to leave the message in your Outbox until it can be delivered.

BabyGotMac has some screen shots of DVD sharing, improved stacks, translucent menu bar switch and network backup. A number of the Leopard 300 plus features were not included, network backup is one of them. The bug fixes are substantial as well. More …

A Poster on MacRunors discovered Apple is now shipping 64-bit Vista drivers for Boot Camp.

So I was setting up my new Mac Pro today, I installed 64-bit Vista … I noticed that on the restore disks under Drivers Apple, there was a file called Boot Camp 64.exe, so I decided to run it, and now everything works perfectly, keyboard, bluetooth, everything.

Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X 8 years ago. YouTube has the Keynote in 3 parts. The other two are in the related box to the right Also, there are number of other Mac OS clips, including the funeral for OS 9 in 2002.

If you have a chance to compare OS 9 and Mac OS X, side by side, OS 9 is blazing fast in comparison. Just not as capable or stable.

If put your Mac into sleep mode, why would it sleep when you are playing a movie? This KB article ecplains why your Mac might not go to sleep when you expect it to, or why it might not stay in sleep mode. More …

iTunes uses iSync to transfer files to and from the iPhone. Naturally, iSync keeps track what files have been copied where. Previously I had used Address Book for family, friends and business associates info. As Eudora was showing its age in Leopard, I moved this list to Address Book, but did not want to copy them to the iPhone. Family was already in a group, and you can sync any groups or all. I created a new group and dragged all those I wanted into the group. I opened iTunes with my iPhone connected and sync info, selecting family and the new group. The friends and business associates were already on the iPhone, but not in a group. You can access names on the iPhone by name or group. After syncing, all the names were in my iPhone only the friends and associates were without any telephone or email information, totally blank. I deleted all those from the iPhone and again sync with iTunes. Now the Sync warned me proceeding would delete all in the new group on the Mac. First Sync “knew” it had already sync to the iPhone, now it would sync the changes it found in iPhone to the Mac and that group was empty. I cancelled the sync and scratched my head. Realizing the warning window was a iSync dialog window, I opened iSync In iSync’s preferences is a button label “Reset Sync History”. I realized this was the solution, tell iSync to forget everything. I again told iTunes to sync my info and everything was soon as it should be.

Boot Camp beta available for Tiger running on Intel Macs will stop being supported at the end of the year. Apple previously announced Boot Camp would expire upon the release of Leopard. BetaNews reports that Apple has decided to provide a longer opportunity to purchase Leopard, and may only withdraw support for Boot Camp beta’s when the year ends. More …

This KB article explains what to do if your Home folder disappears in Mac OS X 10.5. First thing, “don’t worry”.

To resolve this issue:

chflags nohidden ~/

Much easier, copy and paste this into the terminal window and avoid typos.

A MacFixIt reader states they also experienced this in Tiger.

Apple released an update for Mac OS X Server 10.5

What was addressed

Server Preferences

* Addresses an issue which could block adding external users to a newly-created group.

NetBoot

* Addresses an issue in which 10.5.x-based software images could lead to an unresponsive NetBoot client.

Open Directory

* Addresses an issue blocking control of client application access when usernames contain non-ASCII characters.
* Addresses intermittent Password Server errors.

SMB File Service

* Addresses an issue in which Microsoft Windows clients may misinterpret shared folders’ ACL settings.