[tooki]

The Mac OS X 10.4.4 update includes

- Intel native
- new widgets


tooki

[forkies]

where the frick is the dl link?

[Thinine]

Yes, where is it?

[Krypton]

It is nowhere.

Probably waiting for traffic to die down a little. There's iTunes 6.0.2 and QT 7.0.4 to play with in the mean time.

[fisherKing]

isn't sort-of apple tradition to post os updates around 5pm est?
keeps us pesky east-coasters from clogging the network...

[rickey939]

Are these the elusive ".Mac exclusive widgets" that were highly promised and never delivered? They better be damn good.

[wtmcgee]

It'll be up this evening I'm sure.

[Webscreamer]

I'm sure it will be. Developers got the GM this morning.

The 10.4.4 Update delivers overall improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:
- AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services

- single sign-on authentication and reliable access to LDAP and Active Directory servers

- autologin for managed user accounts

- Bluetooth wireless access

- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, RAW camera support, including updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers

- Finder updates including finding on Kind and using Slideshow

- .Mac sync services

- Spotlight indexing and searching

- disc recording when creating and burning media

- creating and burning disk images using Disk Utility

- installation reliability

- Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iChat, DVD Player, Mail, Preview, Safari, and Stickies applications

- Dashboard widgets: Address Book, Calendar, Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Phone Book, Stickies, Stocks, Unit Converter, Weather, and World Clock

- Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update

- compatibility with USB and FireWire devices and third party applications

- previous standalone security updates

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n302811
For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

[inkhead]

There are no exclusive .mac widgets in this update. What would they do anyway? And what would stop non-.mac users from using them?

[ldub]

It's up...

http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...pdate1044.html

http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...1044combo.html

Just changed the old 10.4.3 url to 10.4.4 and voila...

[Leia's Left Bun]

IN software update also

[fisherKing]

it's on software update, as well.

(see? f*cking with the east coast!...who're all commuting (except me))

[forkies]

thank the lords

[Leia's Left Bun]

And before anyone asks NO it does NOT fix the fan speeding up and down on G5 towers.

[Leia's Left Bun]

The white pages widget is the buggiest POS ever to come out of Apple.

[TETENAL]

The Google-Widget will be a great time-saver. Instead of laboriously typing my search queries into the Google search field of Safari or dragging search text onto the Safari icon in the Dock, I can now simply type it into the Google-Widget and - boom - the search results directly appear in Safari.



What do you think about the new widgets in 10.4.4?

[Leia's Left Bun]

Oh and this forum is the SECOND buggiest.

[voo]

Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun

And before anyone asks NO it does NOT fix the fan speeding up and down on G5 towers.

Was there ever a explanation on why this happened from .4.2 to .3?

[zign]

Mine was only 27mb when it's 120 on the apple site.

[Apfhex]

The 120MB one on Apple's site is the Combo Updater.

Installed the update from SWU, about to restart.

[Stradlater]

New Date widget it ugly. Anyone know where I can download the old one?

[DarwinX]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

The Google-Widget will be a great time-saver. Instead of laboriously typing my search queries into the Google search field of Safari or dragging search text onto the Safari icon in the Dock, I can now simply type it into the Google-Widget and - boom - the search results directly appear in Safari.



What do you think about the new widgets in 10.4.4?

Well not useful to the point of it having to be advertised as a feature, I can see moments when it's useful. I often have my PowerBook next to me while doing other thinks and want to do a quick google search. F12, type and I have results.

ESPN widget is nice but I hate having to pick only one sport at a time? Eh.

So can the Calendar widget do anything new? I quite honestly just got it and haven't played around with it yet.

So far so good with the update.

[CharlesS]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

What do you think about the new widgets in 10.4.4?

The Google widget isn't too useful, since the toolbar in Safari is accessed with the same number of clicks. However, I'm sure Apple got some advertising money from Google for doing so, so it makes sense.

The People (White Pages) widget is long overdue. I wonder what geniuses didn't realize that this was needed back in 10.4.0 in order to replace the functionality of the long-dead Sherlock Phone Book.

The Address Book widget is a huge improvement over the old one. At least now the damn thing isn't perpetually displaying the last person you looked up (or the one with the first given name alphabetically if you haven't looked one up yet) even if the time you looked that person up was last week! Sheesh. Also, the thing is much more compact than it used to be when not being used. My only complaint is that the button to open the contact's Address Book card in the Address Book app (so you could edit it if you so desired) seems to be missing in this version.

[pliny]

Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun

The white pages widget is the buggiest POS ever to come out of Apple.

Hmm, how come? I tried a couple and it works ok.

I like the google widget, just ht the dash for the widget and up it comes.

[pliny]

oh yeah, my safari seems snappier, cant tell what improvements have been made under hood, though, got to check the hyatt blog i guess.

[rickey939]

So far so good here with the update. The new widgets are purty.

[MartiNZ]

Well I've happily disabled all of the new widgets. They're all pretty much US-oriented, although the ski resort one did find Whakapapa here in New Zealand ... but of course it's summer so that's closed .

The new calendar widget allows people to be far more blind and still see what the date is - interesting. The iTunes widget still crashes reliably for me, even though I've sent the crash report in to Apple at every iteration of Tiger hmm.

Haven't noticed anything else new yet - how disappointing.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by DarwinX

ESPN widget is nice but I hate having to pick only one sport at a time? Eh.

I guess you can open multiple ESPN widgets for different sports.

Most of the new widgets are of no interest for non-American users. All we got was Google.

[Captain Obvious]

Originally Posted by Webscreamer

I'm sure it will be. Developers got the GM this morning.

The 10.4.4 Update delivers overall improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:

So nothing about airport updates in there at all...

[revmitcz]

Has anyone else noticed that Safari either removed or had broken it's scroll-wheel functionality for overflow:auto divs?

I REALLY hope that's a temporary thing. I hated it when that didn't used to work right, and I was very happy to see them include it some 3-4 versions ago. Now, it's gone again.

Anywho - just wanted to see if I'm the only person experiencing this.

[mdc]

i like the new address book and calendar widget. the ESPN one will come in handy since when i'm not watching the game i normally have a web page open that updates with the scores.

[Leia's Left Bun]

Originally Posted by pliny

Hmm, how come? I tried a couple and it works ok.

I like the google widget, just ht the dash for the widget and up it comes.

Guess it doesn't mix well with Canada.

[turtle777]

Alright, so is it safe to install ?
Any more hamsters / guinea pigs out there ?

-t

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by turtle777

Alright, so is it safe to install ?
Any more hamsters / guinea pigs out there ?

-t

No problems here.

[alphasubzero949]

Hmmm...

Seems more responsive all around.

• As usual, PithHelmet is broken under Safari 417.8. Open the info.plist files in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/PithHelmet.bundle packages and change MaxBundleVersion to Safari's current version.

• You'll have to reapply themes as a few things were changed.

• Nice to see Apple stepping on the toes of some widget developers again.

• Mail.app STILL does not auto-hide on login when you tell it to.

• FTFF! (Like they ever will in Tiger)

[alphasubzero949]

Hmmm...

Seems more responsive all around.

• As usual, PithHelmet is broken under Safari 417.8. Open the info.plist files in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/PithHelmet.bundle packages and change MaxBundleVersion to Safari's current version.

• You'll have to reapply themes as a few things were changed.

• Nice to see Apple stepping on the toes of some widget developers again.

• Mail.app STILL does not auto-hide on login when you tell it to.

• FTFF! (Like they ever will in Tiger)

[jszrules]

Unfortunately, Spotlight still doesn't look in certain folders (an example being System->Library->Printers). I was hoping this would change, but it's obviously done intentionally on Apple's part. I disagree with the decision to eliminate some files from Spotlight's reach because of Spotlight can't find something, what will?

[rparke1]

just a couple quirks for me. my invisidock is gone, the black arrows are back (i figured out how to get rid of them but cant remember how to now) and *sniff* my frontrow isnt working anymore


1ghz, ti pb
768 ram

[rparke1]

just a couple quirks for me. my invisidock is gone, the black arrows are back (i figured out how to get rid of them but cant remember how to now) and *sniff* my frontrow isnt working anymore


1ghz, ti pb
768 ram

[hoopz]

For those who care, the iBook screen-spanning hack thankfully seems to be working fine under 10.4.4 (for me, anyway--12" iBook, 1.33 Ghz).

[hoopz]

For those who care, the iBook screen-spanning hack thankfully seems to be working fine under 10.4.4 (for me, anyway--12" iBook, 1.33 Ghz).

[hoopz]

bleagh--double post

[alphasubzero949]

I guess FTFF could also double as Fix the Facking Forum.

[rparke1]

is anyone elses eject button not working under 10.4.4? i keep pressing and pressing with a dvd in (march of the penguins thank you) and the little eject icon isnt showing on the screen, oh and the dvd isnt showing up on my desktop.



............and yes im sure i put the dvd in


update: oooooooooooooooook, i guess the little eject icon in the upper right hand corner on the screen next to the spotlight is what i have to press now. it worked like a charm

[voo]

Eject button works fine. Seems the MX1000 buttons are almost sorted with this, side scroll use to fire up the spotlight menu in .4.3 and now does the proper function. Sadly the down scroll button still launches Alt - Tab switcher.

Nice Calendar, shame about the ESPN widget such limited sports selection. Was hoping Supercross & Motocross would be listed

[shortcipher]

can anyone confirm for me whether support for deep sleep and PCI USB 2.0 cards has got any better? Seems that the state of play up until now has been that Macs wont wake from sleep if they have a PCI USB 2.0 card and there is something plugged into the card that is drawing power, like an iPod, that was certainly my experience with a Belkin card under 10.4.3 so I took it back.

Many thanks

[Theodour]

After the update, my electric sheep screen-saver dropped from fluid motion to around 5 fps. Also, moving the safari window and minimizing to dock is very choppy.

This is a Dual 2 (2nd Gen), FX5200. Possibly an issue with the new nVidia Drivers maybe?

Anyone else see this?

[doublep]

Does anyone know what the impact of this update is on the Graphics Card Drivers? (especially nVidia performance)

[cmeisenzahl]

This is cool, can't wait to grab it tonight.

[cmeisenzahl]

This is cool, can't wait to grab it tonight.