This update improves the performance of the Apple Bluetooth devices while running Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista on the the iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) and iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) computers using Boot Camp.

A great new feature in iTunes Connect now allows you to schedule changes to the price of your app, including In App Purchase items. This feature is designed so you can set a single price change or consecutive price changes all in advance. Log in to iTunes Connect and check out this new feature located in the Pricing tab under the Edit Application section.

When iCal is configured to use a Microsoft Exchange server account, all busy times for invitees may not appear when viewing invitees' free/busy times in the Availability window. This may happen when invitees are already busy in the time slot for which a meeting is being created.

iTunes can sync your contacts and calendars from Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express and contacts from Microsoft Address Book to any iPod with a display screen1 (Note: Outlook 2003 or later is required to sync contacts and calendars from Outlook). If you are syncing contacts and calendars to an iPod touch, please see this article.

Learn how to cleanly uninstall iTunes, QuickTime, and other essential software components from your Windows Vista or Windows 7 PC; (for a Windows XP or Windows 2000 PC, refer to Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP).

iTunes for Windows (XP, Vista, and 7) installs some processes that run in the background. Below is a brief explanation of what each process does.

When installing iTunes for Windows, the installation may not complete and Windows may display the following message: "iTunesSetup.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

You have been publishing photos and video to your MobileMe gallery only with either iPhoto or Aperture, or uploading photos or videos directly from your computer. Now you want to publish photos and videos with both iPhoto and Aperture, but you don't see a setting that will allow you to specify syncing with iPhoto or Aperture.

See the frequently asked questions below to learn more about iWork.com.

When syncing contacts, calendars, or notes from Microsoft Outlook, there can be issues that prevent syncing from completing as expected. Many of the issues can be resolved with the steps in these articles: Troubleshooting iPhone and iPod touch contact and calendar syncing via USB on Windows MobileMe: Troubleshooting Windows syncing If you haven't followed the steps in the appropriate article above please do so. This article provides additional steps that may allow you to sync or detemine why you are unable to sync.

Apple has discontinued support for certain technologically obsolete and vintage products.

If you try to upload a file to your iDisk, you may see the following message: "One or more items can't be copied. Do you want to skip them and copy the remaining items?"

You may discover that a DVD burned in iDVD has poor image quality, pixelation, or interlacing issues when you play it in full-screen mode on your HDTV or Apple monitor. This may occur even if the video looks normal in the iDVD preview window.

USB based peripherals come in a wide variety; many have unique power requirements. Learn more about the power available via USB on Apple computers and how to use peripherals that may require more power than is available through the USB port.

The 2009 Aluminum Keyboard Firmware Update 1.0 improves battery performance of the 2009 aluminum Apple Wireless Keyboard when used in combination with other Bluetooth devices (such as Apple Magic Mouse and some Bluetooth headsets).

Snow Leopard has an built-in grammar checker (in Cocoa and other certain apps) that will place green dotted lines under any possible grammatical errors it detects. (You may have to enable this first, in the program's Edit » Spelling and Grammar » Check Grammar With Spelling.) However, accessing the corrections panel using Control-Click » Spelling and Grammar » Show Spelling and Grammar has always seemed cumbersome. Now I've discovered that simply hovering the mouse over the underlined word pops up a tool tip description of the error. [robg adds: The first option in the contextual menu will be the replacement suggestion, but the Spelling and Grammar box will typically have more information. Given you probably want to make the suggested change anyway, I prefer the contextual menu, so I can see and replace; the to...

Sometimes I visit a website on my iPod Touch that is almost unreadable due to the expected size of a screen on a desktop computer. Even when zoomed in, some sites have the text continue off screen, meaning I'd have to scroll left and right to read a whole line of text. I have MobileMe and sync my bookmarks between computers and my iPod Touch. And one day I happened across just such a too-small site. Frustrated, I decided to just try my Readability bookmarklet, and was happy to see it worked! You'll need either an iPhone or iPod Touch and a computer that you sync your device to via USB or MobileMe. From a computer, navigate to Readability and set your desired options. I like Inverse, Extra Large text, and Extra Narrow margins, but pick what you like. Drag your bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, as the site instructs. (You can move it to your Bookmarks menu, anywhere, or into the sidebar of Safari's Bookmark ...

You can use the keyboard shortcuts outlined in this article to shut down or restart Macs that have a keyboard with an Eject key. Note: Key names are separated by a hyphen (-), such as "Control-Eject". You do not type the hyphen as part of the key combination.

This document outlines security updates for Apple products. For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website. Important: This document describes updates and releases for January 15, 2008 and later, such as Security Update 2008-001. For information about earlier security updates, see these documents: Apple security updates (25-Jan-2005 to 21-Dec-2007) Apple security updates (03-Oct-2003 to 11-Jan-2005) Apple security updates (August, 2003 and earlier) Obtaining Mac OS X Information about obtaining Mac OS X (client) can be found here. Information about obtaining Mac OS X Server can be found here. Software updates for Mac OS X are available via: Software Update preferences Apple Downloads Apple Product Security PGP Key For information, see "How to...

I have a lot of people in my Mac OS X Address Book. I thought it would be a nice idea to have the system check the birthdays in Address Book, and inform me of any forthcoming birthdays via a Growl notification. So I've created an Apple Script to do that (with a lot of help from a few other peoples). First, install Growl if it isn't installed. Also install the Terminal growlnotify command, which you'll find in the Extras folder on the Growl disk image. Next, copy and paste the following into AppleScript Editor: delay 0.5 set isRunning to 0 set timer to the time of the (current date) repeat while isRunning = 0 tell application "System Events" set isRunning to ¬ ((application processes whose (name is equal to "GrowlHelperApp")) count) ...

This document is for Windows XP. Click the appropriate link below if you have a different operating system. Windows Vista or Windows 7 Mac OS X When the iPhone or iPod touch is connected to Windows XP, a dialog is presented with choices for connecting as a digital camera and working with the digital pictures stored on the device. This is the default behavior under Windows XP for digital imaging devices. Windows provides a way to disable this notification on a per-device basis.

I have several sites that I access on both my iPhone and desktop, so I like to have quick access to them via the Bookmarks Bar. However, these sites have different versions for the desktop, for mobiles, and, in some cases, yet another version for the iPhone. Usually, the full version doesn't work so well on the iPhone, and the iPhone version is undesirable on the desktop. Instead of creating a plain bookmark, a little Javascript can make a bookmark context-sensitive, and allow you to have one bookmark that opens the right version of a page, depending on which platform you're browsing from. The basic idea is to use some client-side Javascript to check the browser's platform (a.k.a. operating system), and then tell the browser to access a URL based on that check. The code looks like this: javascrip...

Original release date: March 09, 2010 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Microsoft Office Overview Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. I. Description Microsoft has released security bulletins for multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Movie Maker, Microsoft Office Producer 2003, and Microsoft Office Excel. These bulletins are described in the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010. Microsoft notes that affected versions of Microsoft Movie Maker were either included with Microsoft Windows or available as an optional download. II. Impact A remote, unauthenticated attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a vulnerable application to crash. III. Solution Apply updates from Microsoft Microsoft has provided updates for these vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010. The security bulletin describes any known issues related to the...

Learn the answers to some of the frequently asked questions (FAQ) regarding iPod Hi-Fi.

Pictures and screenshots taken with the iPhone are stored on the Camera Roll. When you sync or perform a restore, iTunes creates a backup the contents of your iPhone, including the Camera Roll. The more pictures or other multimedia files that are on the Camera Roll, the longer a backup or restore will take. Improve backup and restore times by regularly importing the contents of your Camera Roll, and then sync that content back to the iPhone.

When you set up the Mail service on a new installation of Mac OS X Server v10.5, SMTP is restricted by default to the local subnet. Machines on this subnet can relay through your mail service without authenticating. In some cases, such as a home office server connected to the Internet via cable modem or DSL, the "local subnet" may include other cable or DSL subscribers outside the home office.

If you use "Restore System From Backup…" to restore a Time Machine backup to a different Mac than the original Mac used for the backup, issues such as these may occur: Graphic anomalies may appear during startup, or may follow the mouse pointer AirPort or Bluetooth may not be available The Mouse System Preference pane may not display the Magic Mouse or its features Brief graphic distortion may appear when shutting down an iMac Other startup issues

Most of us know that Quicktime X, included with Snow Leopard, can trim movie and audio files. However, this trim is less than precise, as you cannot specify an exact trim start and stop point. Worse yet, if you want to make 10 minute segments for YouTube, you have to write down the last trim end time, undo the previous trim after uploading, and hope the trim slider will let you select the same trim point to start your next clip. What a pain. Enter AppleScript -- trim is a scriptable function. Open your movie in Quicktime X, and open the AppleScript Editor in the Application » Utilities folder. In the AppleScript Editor enter this script: tell application "QuickTime Player" activate trim document 1 from start_trim to end_trim end tell Replace start_trim and end_trim with the time, in seconds, at which you wish ...

Your Mac might not immediately sleep after you attempt to put it to sleep.  Or, if you have configured your Mac to sleep when idle for a period of time, it may not go to sleep automatically.

I bought a new iMac and went crazy with Faces in iPhoto. Two days later I had a lot of tagged photos in Faces. Then I noticed that since I synced my Address Book with Google Contacts, Address Book entries were appearing as suggestions in Faces. I didn't want to re-tag all my existing Faces photos, but there didn't seem to be an obvious way to link a new Address Book contact to an existing Face. So I took the only honorable course of action and starting messing around. I discovered that you can transfer a Faces collection to an Address Book contact very quickly. Assume you're working on John in your Faces collection, who has the entry John Doe in your Address Book. Go into Faces and pick any photo of him, double-click to view it and then click name. Start retyping John and John Doe should be one of the suggested values, with an Address Book icon next to the name. Click to select it. Go back to the Faces cork board and you should now have your original John ...

When you are trying to update or restore your iPhone or iPod touch with iTunes, the update or restore process may stop, and you may see an alert message in iTunes. You may also see the "Connect to iTunes" screen on your iPhone or iPod touch: The alert message in iTunes may also include one of the following numbers (but is not limited to): 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, -18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 28, -48, -50, 1002, 1011, 1013, 1015, 1601, 1602, 1603, 1604, 1608, 1609, 1611, 1612, 1639, 2009, 3004, 3013, 3014, 3015, 9807, -9808, 9844.

Learn how to find out if you have a 32-bit or 64-bit Intel-based Mac.

A few days ago, I wanted to get iTunes to accept my AmEx Gift Card, but somehow it always said the security code was invalid. Different from VISA and MasterCard, the security code from an AmEx Card is on the front and is four digits long. There was no doubt this code was in fact valid, and I was typing it correctly. Obviously I wasn't the only one with this problem -- Apple's Support Discussion Board was filled with people complaining about that, and the "hints" there weren't working at all. As for me, it worked after I put an empty space after the last number on the card. The reason: iTunes wanted to have 4 4-digit parts (16 digits) of the credit card number, but the AmEx had only had 15 digits. This was causing the invalid security code. However, you couldn't tell that in the first place, because all iTunes showed after rejecting the code was **** **** **** 4123. In fact, 123 were at positions 13 to 15 in the real credit card. But iTune...

During a scheduled maintenance or unexpected, temporary service interruption, the System Status indicator on the MobileMe Support website and in MobileMe Account may state: "MobileMe members may be/are unable to use Find My iPhone, receive automatic new mail notifications (display count on the Mail icon, sound and/or vibration alerts) on their iPhone or iPod touch, or automatically sync changes to contacts, calendars, and bookmarks between their desktop applications and iPhone or iPod touch."

You may see an error message when attempting to open iTunes 7.7 or later stating that "iTunes cannot run because it detects a problem with QuickTime." If this issue occurs with iTunes 7.0.2 - 7.6, customers may instead see this error message: "iTunes cannot run because it has detected a problem with your audio configuration" If this occurs with iTunes 7.0 or 7.0.1, customers may instead see a -200 error when opening iTunes 7.

Learn how to move your iTunes Media folder to a different location on your Windows PC. To move the iTunes Media folder on a Mac, see iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder. If your hard drive is nearly full after loading all your music and other media into iTunes, or if you just want to move all those music and media files to another hard drive on your system, here's a way to make the move while retaining all your playlists, ratings, and play history.

Mac OS X's default volume control hot keys change the volume in huge steps, but you can use Shift-Option and the Volume Up or Down keys for quarter-step changes (see this hint). Still not fine enough for you? AppleScript to the rescue, once again. Though it has some oddities, AppleScript can be used to set the volume based on an entered number. Here's the first quirk: the number of squares filled in on the HUD will be twice the number you typed in. So, typing set volume 1 sets the volume to level two. (There are 16 squares total, so you can enter a number from 1 to 8). You can use decimals to set the volume by individual square, too: set volume .5 fills in one square. You can, amazingly, extend this functionality to even greater levels of precision. Want to set the volume to three and one-fifth squares (i.e. 3.2)? Type set volume 1....

This article contains a script used to configure Promise VTrak RAID Controllers for Xsan (Data Only).

This article contains a script used to configure Promise RAID Controllers and SAS-connected Expansion Chassis for Xsan (Metadata and Data).

This article contains a script used to configure Promise VTrak RAID Controllers for Xsan (Metadata and Data).