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Updated: Coverage change. The live event was not publicized heavily, though the Apple blog sites have picked up the story Friday (presumably to keep stress off the AT&T network). The event raised interest in Apple's recently released HTTP streaming protocol, engineered to optimize streaming technologies for environments that are generally difficult to maintain streams, such as mobile phones. Should this demonstration be successful, we could see an influx of developers … Read more

Written by Topher Kessler

A workaround has cropped up for people who're affected by wireless problems with the latest OS update. This workaround requires you to have a copy of an OS X 10.5.7 installation, so you can grab a few kernel extension files from it for use with 10.5.8.

We should warn that while this seems to get rid of the power-related glitches in Airport connections, it is modifying your system in ways that may lead to other system instabilities, so proceed at your own risk. This workaround is simple, so you should be … Read more

Written by Topher Kessler

Yesterday we found that some laptop owners who applied the 10.5.8 system update were having difficulties connecting to their WiFi networks. There are a variety of reports regarding this issue, some of which claim the WiFi cannot connect at all, others that claim WiFi is slower, and some discussing only intermittent WiFi connectivity. Despite these, many other people who have updated (including us at MacFixIt) have not had these WiFi problems even on the same hardware reported.

It appears this problem for the most part happens when people run on the battery, as described … Read more

Compiled by Joe Aimonetti

Your iPod may fail to power on, may freeze at the Apple logo or during playback, or may lose click wheel functionality. Should this occur, there are several troubleshooting steps that will likely solve your issue:

Written by Topher Kessler

Microsoft has released a small update to Office 2008 that addresses a problem in the recently released service pack 2 for Office, where users cannot open some Office documents.

In addition, they have updated the Open XML converter utility to version 1.1.1, which supposedly addresses similar small problems with the previous update. For information on the Office update, see this Microsoft support page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974170

The updates should be available thorugh Microsoft's auto updater, but are also available at Microsoft's downloads page: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx… Read more

Edited by Joe Aimonetti

Though the 10.5.8 update is only a couple days old, readers have already experienced some odd issues with their systems since updating. It is unclear if these issues are local or wider spread. If you have experienced any problem described here, or have solved any of them, let us know in the comments. As we describe in many of our articles about updates (especially OS updates) it is a … Read more

Written by Joe Aimonetti

Waking up today brought more than just another beautiful Portland, Oregon morning. It brought the promise of updating my work MacBook (a Black MacBook, 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, currently running Mac OS X 10.5.7) to yesterday?s release of Mac OS X 10.5.8. For many Mac users, updating can be a daunting task. Many forums … Read more

Written by Topher Kessler

As described in this Apple Discussion thread, in some instances the 10.5.8 update seems to not be properly linked to the permissions database, which is resulting in permissions output warnings such as the following:… Read more

Written by Topher Kessler

A number of people are experiencing problems with their wireless network connections after updating to 10.5.8. A few have not been able to connect to their Wi-Fi networks, some have had slow connections, and others have had problems with specific devices and services such as using Airtunes with an Airport Express.

MacFixIt reader "gfs2000" writes: