Apple releases software update for Trackpad issues

Apple, on Monday, released a software update to fix an issue with its Trackpads on the company’s late 2008 MacBooks and MacBook Pros.  The issue stems from unresponsive Mouse commands while using the computer’s Trackpad.

The update can be obtained though Software update.

New features in Safari 3.2 causing crashes?

Apple’s Safari 3.2 release may be causing more problems than are solved for some users, anecdotes indicate. The browser is said to be crashing frequently in some cases, with at least some incidents being preceded by the “beachball” loading icon. It is unknown why the errors might be occurring, but it is thought that they may be connected to Apple’s new anti-phishing safeguards, or alternately, the third-party PithHelmet ad-blocking extension.

Safari 3.2 contains a new version of the WebKit engine, which has been altered to limit the URL types that can be launched through the plug-in interface. WebKit has also been tweaked to run extra validation on JavaScript array indices, and perform better garbage collection. The majority of security updates in the browser are explicitly targeted at Windows XP and Vista users, however, such as remedies to JPEG and TIFF exploits, and other vulnerabilities in components like CoreGraphics and zlib. Aside from anti-phishing protection, the lone Mac security fix solves a problem in which disabling auto-completion would still leave data in Safari’s page cache.

Source: MacNN.com

Sun intros “Star Office 9″ for Mac

Information from the web site:

At a Glance
Powerful and integrated word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities
Cool add-ons that extend functionality now available for StarOffice 9/OpenOffice.org
Download price of $34.95, and volume pricing for businesses
Read, edit and save Microsoft Office files
OASIS OpenDocument format for global compatibility
Free PDF import and export capability included
Now supported on Macintosh OS X

For more information, click here.