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iChat AV 2.1, iPhoto 4.0.1 Released
Milanek writes "Apple has released final version of iChat AV 2.1. It's available on Apple's iChat site or via Software Update. It adds support for video conferencing with the new AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 for Microsoft Windows." Also available this week is an update to iPhoto, to version 4.0.1. Apple says it has performance, stability, and organization enhancements, including faster importing, smoother image viewing, easier Rendezvous sharing, and improved thumbnails.
Apple says it has performance, stability, and organization ehancements
;)
Not to be a spelling nazi, but that should be eHancements.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I sure would like faster image prview in the Finder.
I've ran them both, iPhoto is indeed a little bit faster and it renders the thumbnails in a different way. But... it took me about 15 min. to update my 2000+ photo lib!! :-) It would be great to have a good PC-Mac compatible video chat... ;-) )
As for iChat, it seems like the beta version, but final. I can't wait to try the video tomorrow with a friend... She coulden't make it work the last time with aim 5.5 beta, so I gess I'll have to go to her house and do the aim config myself
Now, if only MSN Messenger for mac would be *close* to the PC version I would not have to try to convince 99% of my friends to change to AIM in order to get vid...
BTW, I must thank the people of the aMSN sf.net project, for giving me a reason to continue to use MSN... Keep it up!!! (and pleeeeeeeeeeease, gimme some more use for my iSight, if M$ doesn't!
% softwareupdate -l
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2003 Apple Computer, Inc.
Couldn't register server on this host.
Gah. This happened on 3 different Macs running 10.3.3. Two clients, one Server. A fourth Mac had no problems, and rebooting fixed one of the three that failed initially (not a good time to reboot the other two, especially the server!).
Silly me, I thought I a waiting a week was long enough to make sure 10.3.3 had no major problems.
... video conferencing... performance, stability, and organization ehancements, including faster importing, smoother image viewing, easier Rendezvous sharing, and improved thumbnails.
These things are all good, but wouldn't it be much simpler to accomplish all these performance improvements by releasing THE NEW G5 POWERBOOK!! COME ON, APPLE! I'M DYING HERE!
Thank you.
My Visa is ready, since I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs reads Slashdot.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
Applications Server Update 2.0 (95.6 MB)
The Application Servers Update provides JBoss version 3.2.3 GM, Tomcat version 4.1.29, and WebObjects Deployment 5.2.3. WebObjects Deployment 5.2.3 provides qualification for WebObjects applications running under Java 1.4.2 and improvements to stability and correctness.
For further information about this update, please see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=10
RAID Admin 1.3 (5.2 MB) (actually available about a week ago?)
The RAID Admin 1.3 Update improves over all reliability of the RAID Admin software. This update is recommended for all Xserve RAID users.
Key enhancements include:
Solves issue where fibre channel link LED goes off even when link is up
Addresses condition where management coprocessor does not respond to RAID Admin
Prevents erroneous enclosure events that caused buzzer and email notification
Corrects situation where disks have a RED status LED after a RAID controller restart
Battery modules will now be detected by RAID Admin 1.3 on Xserve RAID systems with firmware 1.1-117
Addresses RAID Admin Java 1.4.2 compatibility issues
I'd like the thumbnail cache to be cross-platform and open. Why on earth can't someone publish a simple RFC for thumb caches. If bill broses his home folder on Windows, the generated thumbs should work for KDE/GNOME/OSX and whatever else, it's just common sense and it would be an 'everybody wins' sort of thing.
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
Okay, can somebody please explain why an iChat update requires a reboot?
. . . but it would be REALLY nice and infinitely more useful (not to mention probably easier from a programming perspective) if they would add support for little things as editing you AIM profile and transparent buddy icons.
fuck you.
(n/m)
I like iChat and all, but I really wish Apple would make more of an effort to enhance the general functionality of the program.
I like tabs. Tabs are such a great benefit when browsing the web. However, if I want to send instant messages to people, my only really option for tabbed IM conversations is Adium, which while it has benefits, doesn't have nearly all the features of a normal client, and suffers greatly because of it.
On top of this, I wish that iChat had Konfabulator-type features that would allow the buddy list to be docked on the main window. That's a pretty darn cool (though memory-intensive) feature that Adium has that would really add a lot of appeal to iChat for me. I don't wat to have to leave the window open all the time to find out who's online. It should just stay open in a way that is unobtrusive.
Apple strives on thinking different? Well, they should think less in the AOL mold of instant messaging, because there's some really cool stuff that some of the other indie IM clients have that I really want to see iChat implement.
I think AOL and Apple have seriously overestimated the market for video IM. Instant messaging should be free to use in the middle of the day, at night, when people are sleeping (because it makes a GREAT replacement for a phone) and any other time when a phone isn't very helpful to have around. Video offers few of those benefits to everyday life.
Small little details that make IMing easier, however, offer many.
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...via software update. It downloads two programs to your utilities folder which you have to click on to run. I haven't tried the mouse update out yet as my batteries are low and it won't let you run the update in this situation.
Okay, can somebody please explain why an iChat update requires a reboot?
A lot of iChat is within the .app, but there's an entire framework for it (including code and graphics) within the system files. Ppresumably it gives it a bit of a speed boost, but iChat is also tied with a lot of Apple's other apps (while reading an email in Mail, for example, you can see if the person who sent it to you is online without actually looking at iChat).
Whatever. It's still not as good (or pretty!) as the nightly builds of Adium.
If you get nervous, just remember that there are a few billion other people who don't really give a damn.
For iPhoto, you have to keep the iPhoto app in the Applications folder for the Software Update to find the app and install the updater. (I had mine in a nested folder called 'Photo apps' under my Applications folder, and the Software Update 'could not find iPhoto.' Yet, for iChat 2.1, which was also nested in a subfolder under my 'Applications' folder, 'Software Update' was able to find the old version and make the update without nary a hitch. Could someone explain the inconsistency as far as why certain apps MUST be in specific places yet others don't...?
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You're on a UNIX machine. Don't be a retard. Keep the applications and folders on the hard drive where programs put them. Next you're gonna complain that nesting /Library/Perl broke your CGI scripts . . .
You haven't tried the video, have you...
I think you'd change your mind if you had. Having said that, I wish they'd include Jabber support - it'd be easy to add it, and it'd be nice for them to support the official messaging standard.
That and store their damn chat logs in XML for other applications to access instead of a binary dump.
There is a firmware update as well. 1.1.
Improves Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse performance and reliability.
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It is said that a child learns wisdom from the parent,
but the truly wise parent learns joy from the child
If you're having problems getting a route to the Software Update server, it's (obviously!) a connectivity issue.
As for iChat requiring a restart, I was surprised by that. But then I noticed I had the menuling open still. Perhaps if you close everything, it might not require a restart? Not sure. I went ahead and restarted anyway, since it was just a Powerbook and it had been a while since I'd restarted anyway.
A single window option would be nice. Buddies on the left, chat area on the right with tabbed interface.
It would also be nice if iChat automatically put the icon of a cell phone next to the name of anyone who has a mobile phone number in the address book. Click on the button and shoot them an SMS.
If you're having problems getting a route to the Software Update server, it's (obviously!) a connectivity issue.
:) The error was Couldn't register server on this host. Nothing about couldn't CONNECT to server at Apple. My guess is the softwareupdate tries to register some sort of service (probably through CoreServices) on the local host in order to complete the whole operation. The bug was that for some unexplained reason, one shell session always failed, unable to 'register' this server (service). At the same time, another shell, no real environment differences, did it just fine.
:)
Read again, please.
Let me repeat: THERE IS NO CONNECTIVITY ISSUE HERE. It's a bug with how softwareupdate interacts with its associated services/server/whatever you want to call it. I wish I knew more about the internal process so I could investigate further and provide a useful bug report to Apple.
Sorry. It just bugs me when people write me off as some idiot who can't even tell when a problem is his own fault. Trust me, I help people with stuff like that all the time, and this isn't one of those situations.
In every case, the failing shell was running inside a screen(1) session, so I wonder if there's some weird interaction there. Only thing to shoot that down is that it worked when running from a separate, simultaneous screen session! Like I said initially, GAH!
I'm just happy it wasn't a major bug and was easily worked around.
"It's a bug with how softwareupdate interacts with its associated services/server/whatever you want to call it. I wish I knew more about the internal process so I could investigate further and provide a useful bug report to Apple."
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It's loading XML documents through HTTP. The whole process is documented: http://www.cunap.com/~hardingr/projects/osx/explo
I never heard of anyone having a problem like that, and SoftwareUpdate has been in use since when it was introduced with Mac OS 9 - back in fall 1999.
You should post your problem at Apple's discussion boards and see if someone is aware of the problem. Or you could use some combination of curl and tcpdump or whatever to manually see what's going on.
Don't know if anyone else got caught by this, but note that only iPhoto 4.0 - which can only be obtained in Apple's iLife bundle - is subject to the update
The latest version of iPhoto that comes free with MacOS X (even 10.3 a.k.a. Panther) is version 2.0. The update installer refuses to install the update if you have this version, and forcing the update using something like Pacifist makes iPhoto unworkable.