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Apple today released Mac OS X 10.6.3, the third maintenance update for Snow Leopard, via Software Update and the company’s software downloads page. The update offers several hundred fixes implemented since the release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 last November and an interim security update issued in January.

The 10.6.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

– improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
– address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
– address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
– resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
– resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
– improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
– improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
– address a color issue in iMovie with HD content
– improve printing reliability
– resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
– improve the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices
– fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera

Full details on the update are available in Apple’s associated support document.

Developer builds of Mac OS X 10.6.3 were seeded with increasingly frequency in recent weeks, with the most recent, Build 10D573, appearing just last Wednesday.

- Mac OS X v10.6.3 Update (719.23 MB)
- Mac OS X v10.6.3 Update (Combo) (784 MB)
- Mac OS X Server v10.6.3 Update (831.31 MB)
- Mac OS X Server v10.6.3 Update (Combo) (897.32 MB)

Apple has also released Security Update 2010-002 for users on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

- Security Update 2010-002 (Leopard-Client) (78.39 MB)
- Security Update 2010-002 (Leopard-Server) (361.40 MB)

source: Eric Slivka – MacRumors

Adobe announced yesterday that Creative Suite 5 (CS5) will be launched Monday, April 12th at 8:00 AM Pacific Time. The last major update to the CS was in September 2008.
We have little information about CS5, although it is said that Flash will include tools that allow developers to export applications for App Store, and Flash will have no public beta for it.
It seems that we should not expect great changes, but only improvements such as better edges detection in the new Photoshop.
The Creative Suite 5 will run in Intel-based Macs only.

More information can be found here, here and here.

After a long time posting only in portuguese, I was about to terminate this website. But I received a suggestion to write some of it’s contents in english, because the public would be far more interested and, of course, would be world-wide.
So here is the 4th version of this blog. Hope you enjoy.