Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.4

Apple fixed issues with several components in Mac OS X with the release of Mac OS X 10.5.4.

Stay in Sync: Sync your filesUsing specialized utilities, you can synchronize file between Macs with minimal setup.
Inside the OS X 10.5.4 updateA quick peek at some of the other things fixed—and not fixed—in the 10.5.4 update.

Warp 1.1
Warp 1.1 is a free system utility for Leopard. It adds more functionality to Spaces.
Review: Bose SoundDock Portable
The portable version of Bose's iconic iPod speaker system improves on the original but sports an even-higher price tag.
TimeMachineEditor 1.3
If you’ve ever wanted to change Time Machine’s schedule, Time Software's TimeMachineEditor lets you do just that. You can tweak the interval so that Time Machine backs up every, say, four hours, or you can choose to have Time Machine back up once a day, once a week, or once a month.
Review: Little Big Disk Quadra 500GB portable hard drive
LaCie’s Little Big Disk Quadra is a high capacity, portable storage device that can be powered off of a FireWire connection. It will cost you considerably more than a similar capacity desktop drive, but its RAID configuration helps keep the drive competitive with desktop drives in terms of performance.
MenuMeters 1.3
Curious what’s going on with your system’s CPU, disk drives, network activity, or memory usage? MenuMeters presents tons of detail in a well-designed an minimally-intrusive interface.

Tracking Word changes after the fact
You've begun work on a copy of a Word document and failed to track changes. How do you do it after the fact? Like so.
Easily review trashed files in OS X 10.5
Learn a very easy way in OS X 10.5 to make sure that the file you’ve thrown into the trash is the one you really meant to throw away.
Excerpt: Read RSS feeds in Leopard Mail
With Leopard, Apple added RSS support to the built-in OS X Mail application. In this excerpt from his Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard ebook, Joe Kissell looks at configuring Mail’s RSS preferences, adding and managing RSS feeds, and viewing RSS articles from Mail.
Bugs & Fixes: UserEventAgent not responding?
Ted Landau discovered a pair of mysterious Not Responding warnings in Activity Monitor. But they turned out to be false alarms. He has the scoop.
Add more folders to the Media Browser
The Media Browser in iWork applications (and in the Open dialog of many OS X 10.5 programs) can be customized by adding folders you’d like to see.

Inside the OS X 10.5.4 update
A quick peek at some of the other things fixed—and not fixed—in the 10.5.4 update.
How Microsoft can reinvent itself in the post-Gates era
With Bill Gates stepping down from his day-to-day duties at Microsoft, PC World offers advice on what his company should do to thrive in the coming years.
Do you LightScribe?
Lab Director James Galbraith wonders whether anyone actually uses LightScribe for creating disk labels.
The digital video distribution dance
There's an interesting gavotte taking place between Apple, movie studios, retailers, and hardware manufacturers. How long before one trips over the feet of the others?
When installing software is too simple
A story about a recent Mac switcher who had trouble installing Firefox 3 suggests to Rob Griffiths that some software developers could do a better job of offering clear installation directions.