World of Apple

iMovie 8.0.4 – 35.56MB

This update improves overall stability and fixes a number of other minor issues. The issues addressed include:

Apple has today released a minor point update to iTunes which provides “a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices.”

The update which is 80MB in size brings no obvious features but is reported by numerous sources to break the syncing capabilities of the Palm Pre.

[Update] Apple has released a statement regarding the disabling of Palm Pre syncing:

“iTunes 8.2.1 is a free software update that provides a number of important bug fixes,” says Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. “It also disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre. As we’ve said before, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with unsupported digital media players.”

Safari 4.0.2

This update is recommended for all Safari users and improves the stability of the Nitro JavaScript engine and includes the latest compatibility and security fixes.

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

iPhoto 8.0.4 Update – 102.27MB

This update addresses a rarely encountered issue involving photos imported into a previous version that could affect overall stability, and corrects references to a few points of interest and location names that were labelled incorrectly.

[Update] Title corrected, apologies for confusion.

MacBook Air SMC Firmware Update 1.2 – 623KB

This SMC firmware update adds compatibility for the latest service replacement batteries.

Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 – 19.15MB

This update fixes problems with real-time playback in Final Cut Pro with Mac Pro (Early 2009) models and Xserve (Early 2009) models.

Further information on this update is available in the accompanying release notes.

Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.4.2

The Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n Firmware 7.4.2 update provides several fixes, including:

MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 – 3.35MB

MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a small number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps specification with the June 2009 MacBook Pro. While this update allows drives to use transfer rates greater than 1.5Gbps, Apple has not qualified or offered these drives for Mac notebooks and their use is unsupported.

Further details are available in the related support document.

Safari 4.0.1 – 43.8MB

This update addresses incompatibilities between Safari 4.0 and certain features in iPhoto ‘09, including Places and Facebook publishing.

Bluetooth Firmware Update 2.0 – 1.8MB

This update provides bug fixes and better compatibility with the Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse and Apple Wireless Keyboard.

It installs on all Macintosh systems with Bluetooth based on the Broadcom chipset.

Apple today release updated versions of Java for both Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. The update contains several fixes for vulnerabilities which could allow Java applets to gain increased privileges and the ability to execute malicious code.

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 – 158 MB

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.7 and later.

For more details on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3581

Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 9 – 80MB

Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 9 delivers improved reliability, security and compatibility for J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and later.

For more details on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3593.