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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1

Microsoft today releases Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1.

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update
This update fixes critical issues in Office 2008, including issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly. For more information about this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (KB948057).

Applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourage 2008.
Released: Friday, March 14, 2008

According to some chatters, the SP1 update improves performance and security of Microsoft Office 2008. Some users reported that Office 2008 was sluggish even on Intel-Macs. Some also said that Microsoft Office 2008 was performing slower than its 2004 counterpart.

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AVG Free 8.0, New iMac, and then some

While I was busy doing many things away from this blog:

April 24th, 2008

AVG Free 8.0
Available for Windows Vista and Windows XP.
Get it here.

April 26th, 2008

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Flock 1.1.2
I launched Flock, and was notified about the update.
Read the release notes here.

April 28th, 2008

New iMac from Apple
1066MHz Front Side Bus, and up to 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory is available for 24-inch model.
No Intel Core 2 Extreme anymore.

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Updating to WordPress 2.5.1

WordPress 2.5.1 is released.
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/

This release includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. Some of them are:

  • Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
  • Better performance for those who have many categories
  • Media Uploader fixes
  • An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
  • Widget Administration fixes
  • Various usability improvements
  • Layout fixes for IE

I am upgrading my blog to WordPress 2.5.1 as I am writing this post. The first thing I did was backing up the WordPress database before attempting the upgrade.

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Camino 1.6 is Released

April 17th, 2008

Camino 1.6 is released.

Camino 1.6 contains the following improvements over version 1.5.x.

  • Safari now appears in the list of available feed readers on Mac OS X 10.4 and above.
  • Opening a history item from the recent pages at the top of the History menu in a new tab or window by holding down the Command key works again.
  • Camino now supports multi-touch gestures for back, forward, page up, and page down.
  • The Camino disk image no longer has scrollbars on Mac OS X 10.5 when the Finder’s path bar is enabled.

Download Camino here:
http://caminobrowser.org/download/releases/1.6/