Archives for December, 2008

It’s the end of an era as Apple has announced that the upcoming Macworld San Francisco 2009 will be their last one. Why? Apple says:

Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.

In another break with tradition the last Macworld keynote will be delivered by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, rather than Steve Jobs.

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If you are using Mac OS X 10.5 a.k.a. “Leopard” and run Software Update from the Apple menu you should see that the 10.5.6 update is available now! The knowledge base article describing it is here:

• About the Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update

and the combo-updater (weighing in at 668MB) can be downloaded from here:

• Mac OS X 10.5.6 Combo Update

I’m just downloading it myself so no word on potential problems just yet. I’ll update this post with any pertinent details regarding the update process as needed.

UPDATE: WORKAROUND FOR POTENTIAL UPGRADE PROBLEM

Apple has acknowledged that some people have been seeing a problem when attempting to up grade to Mac OS X 10.5.6. According to this Tech Note the symptoms are:

When attempting to update software using Software Update in Mac OS X 10.5, the update process may stop responding while “Configuring installation” is visible in the update window.

The same tech note also gives a fix that requires deleting potentially partially downloaded updates via the Finder.

Topic

Holiday Party 2008

When

Friday December 12th 2008, 7:30pm – 10pm

Where

Room M129, Building M, ACCC Mays Landing Campus

Our annual December/Christmas Party Meeting will be at Careme’s Restaurant in our normal meeting room, M129. Due to circumstances beyond our control (a large ACAMUG turnout that would essentially fill Careme’s) we’ve had to change plans a bit.

Come to the normal meeting room at the normal time, still prepared to eat because the meeting will be catered!

And don’t forget, there is an extra special reason for this party. Doris Baum, an original ACAMUG founder, will be celebrating her 90th birthday, so we will be honoring her that evening also.

Please keep the date open for this special ACAMUG meeting.