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experiences with revised Security Update 2012-001, which reverts broken module installed by original version

Experiences, Updates

QuickBooks registration problems; Eudora migration

AirPort Express clicks; tinnitus

HDMI details and issues

Seagate Momentus experiences; SSD in FireWire case

Atlassian's free program for the Git, Mercurial, and Subversion version control systems gains submodule and subrepository support, custom actions to launch any tool or command from within SourceTree, Full Screen mode on Lion, performance improvements, Mercurial 2.0 compatibility, and more.

This release of Warren Burton's mindmapping and bookmarking program is for Lion only (with support for Full Screen mode, Auto Save, and Versions) and adds CSV and text import, a much improved system for manipulating data and links, a larger map space, and iCloud integration.

Peppered Software's outlining program gets live audio capture (synced to outlines), bulleted lists and legal formats, OPML support, and numerous tweaks and bug fixes.

The project manager formerly known as Projector adds interface improvements, performance and stability improvements, and better Microsoft Project support.

Bitgeenius' task manager adds an optional menu bar icon, an option to have the window float above all other windows, control of the window's transparency, support for multiple selections in the lefthand panel, and other changes.

Kapeli's text abbreviation expander and snippet manager now suggests new snippets to use, based on what you copy and paste.

Apple updates Lion to 10.7.3 (with security patches), issues some other updates, and patches security holes in Snow Leopard but also seems to have broken Rosetta applications with the latter update.

Mozilla's Internet suite incorporates recent changes to the Mozilla platform, including anti-aliasing for WebGL, support for CSS3 3D-Transforms, support for the new HTML5 bdi element for bi-directional text isolation, and other improvements.

The HTML/XHTML/CSS editor gets a revamped Editor windows with a new interface.

Micromat's disk testing and repair utility adds improvements to the Volume Rebuild/Repair routines, improvements to the Surface Scan test, the ability to Wipe Free Space on an active system volume, improved support of Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) FileVault encrypted and RAID volumes in TechTool Protection, and other changes.

Apple released Version 1.1 of Security Update 2012-001 for Mac OS X 10.6.8 - now available through Software Update - in response to problems with PowerPC applications experienced by many who installed the first release.

This release of iBooks Author updates the EULA to clarify restrictions on iBooks Author output.

Zevo ZFS from Ten's Complement brings the ZFS file system to Mac OS X.