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- How To Use Apple's Updated Product Security Key
Apple updated their PGP product security key as part of their two-year cycle. The new key is valid up through May 15, 2010 and will eventually be posted to their Protecting Security Information page. The announcement was made on their mailing list which you can subscribe to via mail or RSS.
How To Use The Key
Unlike the SHA1 Digests that Apple posts with each distinct download from their site (more on how to verify those here) – an example of which is the SHA1 lines on the Safari 3.1.1 update, the PGP key is used when communicating with Apple, either to verify the authenticity of messages you receive from Apple or to encrypt messages you send to Apple.
(more…)Переслать - Microsoft Patches Office, Commits to VBA Support
Microsoft has been busy today, releasing security updates, announcing a new service pack and committing to restoring functionality to their Mac office suite.
Yep, It’s Patch Tuesday Again
Microsoft released security bulletin MS08-014 today that contains a patch to a remote code execution vulnerability effecting Microsoft Office 2004 & 2008 for Macintosh. Office 2004 is bumped up to version 11.4.1 and primarily contains security & stability fixes. Office 2008 bumps up to version 12.1.0 and includes security fixes along with a plethora of other improvements. Both updates are available via Office software update or via direct download from the aforementioned links.
Get Your Red Hot Office 2008 SP1!
Microsoft MacBU announced the availability of Office 2008 SP1 today in conjunction with the security patch. The 180MB download contains over 1,000 fixes including – what apparently was a major annoyance – the return of custom error bars and axis tick manipulation in Excel charts.
The full release notes are available for your perusal. Here are some other SP1 highlights:
Microsoft Office Excel
- Compatibility. Improved compatibility with files exchanged between Excel 2008 for Mac and Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 for Windows
- Custom Error Bars. Restored formatting option on the Error Bars panel for data series
- Printing. More reliable printing for elements on Excel 2008 workbooks
Microsoft Entourage
- Calendar. Significant enhancements to improve calendar view and all-day reminders with reoccurrence
- Exchange Server support. Overall improvement to synchronization support, including removing attachments from Exchange Server messages and synchronizing to the server, as well as support for editing the contents of Exchange Server messages via AppleScript and synchronizing the changes to the server
- E-mail images. Ability to send and view images in Entourage from third-party tools
Microsoft Office Word
- Printing. Improved accuracy when orienting tables with cell shading
- Document map. Improved reliability and responsiveness to select items
- Notebook layout. Updated formatting, recording status and a variety of display options
Microsoft Office PowerPoint
- Printing. Improvements to eliminate crashing when printing documents to high-dpi printers and increased overall printing speed by 10 times on some large presentations
- Mobile viewing. Ability to view Mac .PPTX files on Windows Mobile phones
- AppleScript. Ability to use the PowerPoint selection object in AppleScript to implement custom scripts that operate on the current selection in PowerPoint
Restoring Functionality (& Vulnerabilities)
Microsoft’s MacBU also announced (official press release) the return of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support to the next major release of Office for Mac. This is a mixed bag since VBA macros are a juicy vector for vulnerabilities but that same functionality is critical to many business processes that have been developed using the suite.
From the announcement:
Sharing information with customers as early as possible continues to be a priority for the Mac BU to allow customers to plan for their software needs.2 Although the Mac BU increased support in Office 2008 with alternate scripting tools such as Automator and AppleScript — and also worked with MacTech Magazine to create a reference guide, available at http://www.mactech.com/vba-transition-guide — the team recognizes that VBA-language support is important to a select group of customers who rely on sharing macros across platforms. The Mac BU is always working to meet customers' needs and already is hard at work on the next version of Office for Mac.
When you install the security update or try out SP1, drop a note in the comments with your experiences and definitely let us and the MacBU know if they didn’t fix any of the issues you were having pre-SP1. Also, if you have any thoughts on the revival of VBA for Mac Office make sure to let us know in the comments as well.
(post updated to fix version errors & links)
Переслать - New Google Reader for iPhone
Those folks at Google have just made my day.
I love Google Reader — it is always open in one of my tabs. Today, the Google Reader team announced a new beta version of Google Reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is a lot like the list view on the desktop, which is my default view. When you want to read an item, tap it, and it will open right there. The beta version also allows you to load more items than the default 7 or 8, or however many there were. It also feels like it loads faster. It has a cleaner look and is more responsive.
You can get to it two ways: Go to http://google.com/reader/i/ or when you are just in Google Reader on your iPhone, it will default to the classic view. Down at the very bottom, choose the “Mobile” view, and you will be redirected to the beta. Try it out, and let the good folks at Google Reader know how you like it.
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