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If you've run your Software Updates since yesterday night you would now see OS X 10.6.4 has been released for both OS X client and OS X server. All the details for OS X client can be found here, but a brief overview:

• improve compatibility with some braille displays
  
• resolve an issue that causes the keyboard or trackpad to become unresponsive
  
• resolve an issue editing photos with iPhoto or Aperture in full screen view
  
• improve reliability of VPN connections
  
• resolve an issue that may prevent some Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications from opening
  
• address issues copying, renaming, or deleting...
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Makeuseof.com has a great article here for how to install OS X on a PC. Now we at The Big Apple Blog have to warn you that doing this DOES break Apples EULA that comes with 10.6 Snow Leopard - so if you get audited, sued, or some legal action is taken against you - you can't blame us or Makeuseof.com. That being said, what's nice with this article is that most tutorials require you to have one mac to put OS X on a PC - this tutorial requires no Macs be present. All you need is...

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Apple has seeded the latest version of their 10.6.4 release to developers for beta testing. The new release has improvements for VoiceOver^* for iLife, and also USB, VPB and Graphic card performance. With the releases of 10.6.4 beta's being more concise, we can expect to see a public release soon. ^*VoiceOver is one of the many built-in features to OS X to help people with disabilities. For more details click Read More

iPhone in Canada has posted that even though 10.6.3 was just released at the end of March - Apple has made a move to prepare 10.6.4 to developers.  10.6.3 brought a lot of fixes to Snow Leopard, including a lot reliability and compatibility of 3rd party devices.  10.6.3 was in development for over 3 months - if Apple sticks to that time frame, 10.6.4 should be released early summer of this...

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Apple spent a long time working on 10.6.3, and within 2 weeks releases 10.6.3 v 1.1 - You can download it from Apple support site (the only one that's listing now is 10.6.3 v1.1) at a whopping 785MB or through Software Updates.  Some users have stated that even though they have 10.6.3 installed, Software Update will not show the 10.6.3 v1.1 update.  Also, Apple has not released any information saying what has been patched in this slight upgrade.  If you are still running 10.6-10.6.2 your Software Update should just automatically attempt to download the 10.6.3 v1.1...

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Apple just released 10.6.3 - which is downloadable via Software Updates ( Menu -> Software Updates).  The update comes in at a whopping 438MB!  Of course there are "bug fixes", but also the following improvements (taken directly from Apple's Support Site): General operating system fixes and improvements provided for:

• performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode.
• printing reliability.
• sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand.
• a color issue in iMovie with HD content.
• glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera.
• an issue in which the Finder reports a...
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