Mac OS X 10.6.5 Notes: exFAT Support, AirPrint, Flash Player Vulnerability Fixes

[CVUSA]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5)

Thanks very much PurrBall..After installing Adobe Flash Player 10.2 ...it work, no more USB Class and google cam on pop down menu.
Just iSight cam and it work. Hope it won't break agin next day..

IMac24,iPhone4.

 

[raulgoc]

It actually came from the Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Update.
I thought it was sent out to all multitouch trackpads including Macbook Air Rev A. Perhaps for some reason it didn't turn it on in your preferences then automatically and 10.6.5 turned it on.

Nice call. I remember downloading that update, and when nothing changed, figuring it only worked on the unibody MBPs. I didn't even think to look at the Preferences pane. Your answer makes sense. Thanks.

 

[Hal Itosis]

I really wish people would stop saying this. My iPhone streams Netflix, my PS3 streams Netflix, my Wii streams Netflix; Silverlight has plug-ins for OS X and Windows (and Windows 7 mobile I would imagine).

In any event, the issue is not that Flash is made by Adobe and that they suck (though it is true) or that Silverlight is made by Microsoft and they suck (they kind of do, but Silverlight is actually reasonably good). The issue is that they are third party plug-ins for a fixed number of platforms. By its very nature the web is most valuable to users when it is ubiquitous. With the explosion of mobile computing, it is not reasonable that any company (Adobe, Microsoft, or Apple) is going to successfully and stably port a plug-in that has to support so many browsers, browser versions, operating systems, operating system versions, form factors, hardware limitations and optimizations, etc.

Apple adding yet another third party plug in to the crap pile is just a bigger crap pile no matter how good it might be. If you're doing something on the web, then do it with the web standards and let each device/system/browser proprietor deal with making its product conform to it rather than the other way around.

Amen, QFT and ++∞

 

[relume]

10.6.5 : serious issue in landscape oriented printing

With the update MacOSX 10.6.5 there was introduced a serious issue for printing landscape oriented documents, especially from Adobe applications. The issue is printer independent and affects almost applications creating a native postscript output. There is no real solution at the moment, other than to stay in 10.6.4. See forum at Apple:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2644180&tstart=0