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Apple Software Update Server Certificate Expired

UPDATE:
Apple updated the SSL Certificate for swscan.apple.com on early Sunday, May 25, 2014.

swscan.apple.com new certificate 20140525

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Late Saturday afternoon, a colleague told me that he was having issues getting software updates through the Mac App Store.

An error has occurred

The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “swscan.apple.com” which could put your confidential information at risk.

Apple-Software-Update-SSL-Error

Upon further investigation, apparently someone at Apple forgot to install new SSL Certificate for swscan.apple.com.

swscan.apple.com certificate expired

Is it possible that a small company like Apple could not afford at least one person to make sure all their security certificate up to date?

Mr Tim Cook, I am available to do the one job. How about $200,000 a year sound?

 

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Journalism or Lack Thereof: Apple-Beats Rumor

Apple-Beats

John Gruber on the Apple-Beats Deal:

That they’ve been so wrong thus far makes me disinclined to believe anything Billboard (or The Financial Times, or The Wall Street Journal, or anyone else who reported the deal as imminent back on May 8) reports about it now.

(Reminder: the links to The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal are behind paywall.)

Since the rumor (which is not an actual news) broke, a lot of pros and cons about the supposed deal were published. Almost all of them are laughable.

It is so irresponsible for these publications not to treat rumors as what they really are; just rumors.

I tried to find a highly cited news-piece published by Billboard in the recent years which turned out to be a total garbage.  Anyone remembers what it was?

 

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Apple Releases iTunes 11.2. to Fix the Hidden “Users” Folder

iTunes 11.2.1

The Global nightmare is over!

In the early AM of May 17, 2014 Apple releases iTunes 11.2.1 to fix the hidden “Users” folder. After iTunes 11.2.1 is installed, “Users” folder is no longer hidden.

“Users” folder becomes hidden when the following conditions met:

  • OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D65 is installed
  • iTunes 11.2 is installed
  • “Find My Mac” is turned on

The “Users” folder could be made visible again by changing the visibility flag using the Terminal command:

sudo chflags nohidden /Users/

Users are finding out that even after the “Users” folder becomes hidden again after reboot.

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OS X Mavericks 10.9.3

Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D65 on Thursday, May 15, 2014.

OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D65

One note bale change that made some people talking is that OS X 10.9.3 now hides the “Users” folder from the root level of the drive.

OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 Disk Root Level no Users Folder

To make the “Users” folder visible again, login as an administrator, launch Terminal.App and type the command:

sudo chflags nohidden /Users

Type in your password when prompted. If you do not have a login password for your admin account, leave it blank.
By the way, why didn’t you assign a password to your admin account? Set a password already.

There are many ways to access the “Users” folder without having to change its visibility.

In Finder menu, click “Go > Go to Folder…”

OS X Go to Folder

You can also press the key-combination “Command-Shift-G” to access the “Go to Folder” window.

Go to Folder Users

Type in “/Users/” in the field and click “Go”. Finder will then display the content of “Users” folder.

Another way is to press the key combination Command and Up Arrow on the keyboard from your home folder.

 

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OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D61

Apple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D61 to Developers and OS X Beta Seed Program Members.

OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D61

As usual, be forewarned before installing any beta/preview release software. There tends to be some show-stopping bugs.

According to a certain Apple engineer, the development of OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 is nearing completion.

In addition to the new build of OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, Apple also releases Safari 7.0.4 Seed 1.