Apple has been busy fixing several glitches for users of both its Mac OS X Tiger and Mac OS X Leopard.
On Monday Apple released a slew of fixes — 36 to be exact — for Mac OS X Leopard in its 10.5.6 update that fixes problems with iChat, MobileMe, and Safari. On Tuesday, the Cupertino-based company released Security Update 2008-008 for Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 users.
The update for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 to 10.5.5 addresses several issues with iChat, including no longer logging users out of iChat when setting the iChat status to invisible, and it resolves an issue with pasting text from Microsoft Office.
Mail also received a list of fixes, including improving its overall performance, improving the accuracy of Connection Doctor, and taking junk mail out of the inbox. The update also addressed the issue of Mail quitting, the reliability of printing PDF attachments, and the issue which caused Mail to append a character to the file extension of an attachment.
For MobileMe, the fix was simple: Sync contacts, calendars and bookmarks on a Mac automatically and within a minute of the changes being made on a computer, a mobile device, or via the Web at me.com.
Apple had several fixes for parental controls, including an issue which prevented the addition of allowed Web sites from Safari via drag and drop. The update also fixed time limits and addressed an issue in which parent-controlled accounts were not able to access iTunes.
For its Time Machine backup utility, the fixes were simple: Improve reliability with Time Capsule and fix issues that could cause Time Machine to show that a backup volume could not be found.
For gamers, the update solves problems with graphics. It includes general improvements for the performance of games; graphics improvements for…