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Apple has updated its latest operating system to version 10.5.4. As alway Apple recommends the update to all Mac OS X Leopard users. According to Apple this update adds support for more RAW formats to the whole system meaning you can use these new RAW formats in all Mac OS X applications based on Core Image (iPhoto, Aperture, Preview etc.). But at the moment it’s unclear which new RAW formats were added. Apple hasn’t updated the general RAW format compatibility list yet. According to Apple’s general RAW format compatibility list the Mac OS X 10.5.4 update incorporates the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility update 2.1 released in May. The cameras fully supported by this update and now also by the 10.5.4 update are: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/Kiss Digital x2/450D, Epson R-D1, Leaf AFi 7, Leaf AFi 6, Leaf AFi 5, Pentax K200D, Pentax K20D. Just the Epson R-D1s seem to be new to the list of supported cameras in OS X 10.5.4.

This update also addresses the issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files on a remote server which could lead to data loss in previous versions of Leopard. Performance issues when using the Final Cut Studio applications with AirPort networks were addressed too.

The other changes include fixes for X11, L2TP VPN, AirPort, iCal, Safari, Spaces and Exposé. For a complete list of changes you can have a look at the corresponding Apple support article.

The update is available via Software Update for all Leopard users. Alternatively you can grab the update package from the Apple website (88MB) or the whole Combo update (561MB). The Leopard Server update is available too as standalane package (133MB) or as Combo update (677MB).

If you’re on Tiger and don’t want to update to Leopard you can grab the Security Update 2008-004 for Intel (128MB) or PowerPC (80MB) to just take advantage of the security related fixes.

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Today Apple released an update to it’s newest operating system Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard which updates it to 10.5.3. As always Apple recommends all users to update to the newest version.

Among the photography and Aperture related fixes are an improved compatibility between Time Machine and Aperture 2 and the availability of additional RAW image formats for several cameras.

You can fire up Software Update to update to 10.5.3. The update is 420 MB in size and a restart is required. Alternatively you can download the combo update (536MB) from Apple’s download page which includes all fixes and improvements since the first version 10.5.

You can read about all fixes and improvements in this Apple Support article.

Update: According to another Apple Support article Mac OS X 10.5.3 adds RAW decoding support for the following cameras: Hasselblad CFV-16, Hasselblad H3D-31, Hasselblad H3D-31II, Leaf Aptus 54S, Leaf Aptus 65S, Nikon D60, Olympus E-3, Pentax *ist DL2, Pentax *ist DS2, Pentax K100D Super, Sony DSLR-A200, Sony DSLR-A350

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FlickrExport is a plugin for iPhoto or Aperture from Connected Flow which uploads photos directly from these application to your flickr profile.

Yesterday Connected Flow released the first public beta version of FlickrExport 3 (precisely it’s version 3.0.0b20). The new features includes:

Routing photos to multiple groups.
The ability to store a collection of group additions and recall them for later use (e.g. “Send to all my Black and White groups”)…

Via (Connected Flow Blog)

Available is a beta version for Aperture or iPhoto. They also made up a webpage for the FlickrExport 3 public beta where you’ll also find a nice screencast showing the new features.

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John Nack reports that

the Mac x64 revision will take longer to deliver. We will get there, but not in CS4. (Our goal is to ship a 64-bit Mac version with Photoshop CS5, but we’ll be better able to assess that goal as we get farther along in the development process.)

(Via John Nack on Adobe.)

You will find more infos and comments about the roadmap at John Siracusa from ArsTechnica and John Gruber from Daring Fireball.

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Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download:

This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux…

(Via Mozilla Developer News.)

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UPDATE: I wrote a follow up article describing how to use this scanner with the newest Mac operating system Leopard. Feel free to head over to this article to get the freshest facts about using this scanner with Mac OS X:
Using the CanoScan LiDE 500F scanner with Mac OS X Leopard

At the end of last year I watched out for a new scanner and the CanoScan LiDE 500f from Canon was the choice. But finding a suitable driver wasn’t that simple cause everywhere around was only the horribly old PowerPC-driver. As long as I had my old G4 in the house it wasn’t that problem. But at this time all Macs were already Intel-powered and also my new MacBook which replaced the G4 was Intel-Powered and i had a problem.

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