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I know it’s not necessarily news anymore, but I just got around to installing it, because I don’t check for updates very often (I don’t use my mac all day, like I used to).

You’ll find the update is downloadable from Apple’s Web site, or from your Software Updater.

Here’s what’s going down in this latest release:

The OS X Lion v10.7.3 Update includes Safari 5.1.3 and fixes that:

• Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support
• Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X
• Address compatibility issues with Microsoft Windows file sharing
• Address an issue printing Microsoft Word documents that use markup
• Address a graphics performance issue after sleep on some earlier iMacs that use ATI graphics
• Resolve a Wi-Fi connection issue when waking from sleep
• Address an issue that may prevent Safari from opening before joining a wireless network
• Fix a potential issue authenticating to an SMB DFS share
• Include RAW image compatibility for additional digital cameras

  Directory Services

• Improve binding to read-only Active Directory Domain Controllers
• Improve binding and login speed for Active Directory users in a domain whose name ends in “.local”
• Improve reliability of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates by Active Directory clients
• Allow login with an Active Directory username that contains a space
• Improve compatibility with Active Directory schemas that have been extended with the “apple-user-homeDirectory” and “apple-user-homeurl” attributes
• Fix home directory Dock item for Active Directory users with mobile accounts
• Allow NIS users with MD5-hashed passwords to log in

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

Enjoy!

So the year 2012 is the year of trying new things for me. So far I’ve dabbled in Visual Studio LightSwitch. My next task, SharePoint.

I’ve used SharePoint in the past for collaborating and sharing of Office documents (as an alternative to SkyDrive). Why not try to set it up, myself?

Thanks to the wonderful technology that is virtual machines, I fire up a copy of Windows Server 2008 and drop in SharePoint 2010.

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Is it improper to code for Windows on a Mac? Maybe so, but I like it. I’m sure it makes me an odd one given that the typical Mac user doesn’t want anything to do with Windows. Words of Advice: Don’t go to themacuser.org. Seriously. Don’t. Why do I say that? Because I wanted some infos. I googled “typical mac user” and it was the fourth listing… I’m losing my mind. So while trying to find some juicy crap on Mac users (and ways to validate their stereotypes), I come across this page. I’m laughing at this guy’s rage. I am, really. He or she seems to be ranting about the stereotypical mac user, of which there are plenty. I wonder if he or she knows not all Mac users are like that? Read the rest of this entry »

For those who are familiar with VisualBasic and C#, VisualStudio is probably at “back-of-hand” status. If you’re new to Visual programming, either VB or Visual C#, LightSwitch might be what you’re looking for to get started. With a very similar UI and enough hand-holding to get the job done without hitting up the Internet. I’m not a total newb when it comes to programming (I have some background in PHP/MySQL) so I can generally get the idea when I look at code, regardless of the language. Programming for an Operating System, however, is new territory for me. Here’s how I fared.

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