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"In addition to rolling out an update to Mac OS X 10.6 on Monday, Apple also issued a security update for users of its operating system. Security Update 2010-002 is included with the Mac OS X 10.6.3 update; Leopard users can download the update separately for client and server versions of Mac OS X 10.5."

The client update can be downloaded here, and the server update here. If you want to know all about the changes with Security Update 2010-002, you can check out the release notes from Apple here. Mainly the update "focuses on closing would-be vulnerabilities that could have subjected your Mac to remote attacks, malicious code, or applications quitting unexpectedly." Seems like a no-brainer update if you need the client or server editions for OS X 10.5, otherwise it is part of the update earlier in the week.

"We've mentioned our love of Twitter clients on many occasions. Among the many we have covered, Tweetie has become one of our favorites on the iPhone. When the desktop client was announced and subsequently released, our love affair was re-ignited. And now things are even more steamy; atebits announced today (via Twitter, no less) the immediate availability of Tweetie for Mac version 1.2."

The coolest thing about this update is the ability to record and tweet videos from the iSight camera. This is done using ImageShack's yfrog image hosting service. I don't do a lot of video other than on YouTube, so not sure this is something I will use much, but it is still a cool upgrade. They have also fixed a few bugs regarding URL-shortening, 32-bit stability and have improved Growl notification support. There is also support now for drag-and-drop video to go along with the previously mentioned video tweeting.

I haven't totally converted to using Tweetie, as I still mess around a bit with Tweet Deck. I do like what they are doing with it though.