What's New - Jul 15, 2008
By: Benjamin Martin - Revised: 2008-09-05 ben
Introduction
What's new for the Mac in the previous month:
- General issues, workarounds and fixes
- New Software and hardware
- Software and hardware updates/patches
- Apple Inc. related news
Contents
- Agenda
- Notable Updates
- 10.5.4
- 10.5.4 Server
- Security Update 2008-004
- Microsoft Office
- iPhone Enterprise Deployment Guide
- iPhone VPN U of U
- iPhone Battery Life
- iPhone with a U discount
- iPhone Data plan madness
- MobileMe goes live
- Apple Science Productivity Lab
- Humor
Agenda
- What's New
- Aqua Connect Terminal Service
- Joseph Cohen ~ CTO Aqua Connect
- Mozy for Mac
- Tom MetGe & Dan Reese ~ Mozy
Notable Updates
Reference:
http://support.apple.com - XCode 3.1
- iPhone SDK
- Additional GCC & LLVM compiler options
- Safari 3.1.2 for Mac OS X 10.4.11
Microsoft Office
Reference:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/34058 - Office 11.5.0 (Office 2004)
- If MS Office OpenXML Converter is installed you can read/write OpenXML files
- MS Office Open XML Converter 1.0
- Office 12.1.1 (Office 2008)
- Stability and numerous bug fixes
iPhone with a U of U discount
- Voice and data 15% off
- To get the discount you must go through the AT&T premier online store or an AT&T store
- Email Anthony MacKay (AT&T rep) with questions
iPhone Data plan madness?
- What's the difference between the consumer data plan and the enterprise plan?
MobileMe goes live
- Sync Mail, Contacts, Calendar to Mac OS X, WinXP, WinVista, iPhone and iPod touch
- Online storage for Photos, iDisk
- $99/year 20GB storage
- $149/year family pack 40GB stoarge
- $49/year per 20GB extra storage
Apple Science Productivity Lab
Reference:
http://www.apple.com/science/productivitylab/ - Tutorials geared towards scientists
- Keynote- Scientific Posters
- SnapzPro X - Screen Captures
- iWeb - Scientific Websites
- iWork 08 - Research Presentations
- iWork 08 - Powerpoint conversion
Humor