news of 2004-11-04



Quite a bit on Spotlight...

You'll find here at developer.apple.com quite a bit of information what Spotlight really is, how it works and how you as a developer can make use of it. Certainly interesting for future Tiger users, too.

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-11-04 at 12:45 CET ]
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Tiger Server 8A297

Apple has seeded Tiger Server, first time for ADC Select members, according to sources. The DVD disk image weighs in at 1653 MB.

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-11-04 at 10:39 CET ]
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Mac OS X 10.3.6 7R28

Apple seeds this new build, also the Server version of the same build and J2SE 5.0, based on JDK 1.5.0-rc-b63, the latter one only for Tiger builds 8A294 and up. The Mac OS X 10.3.6 build 7R28 comes without reversioners and can only be installed on 10.3.5 GM. A release of 10.3.6 is expected in early to mid November. Key enhancements of this update are improved file sharing for AFP, NFS and SMB/CIFS, more reliable automounts, improved OpenGL with updated graphics card drivers, FW/USB compatibility (more devices), updated Calculator, DVD Player, Image Capture and Safari applications.

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-11-04 at 10:38 CET ]
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Firefox: RC2 released

You'll find it here on their FTP server. Final release still expected on 9. November 2004.

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-11-04 at 10:30 CET ]
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