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29Mar/101

What’s With The New iCal Icon?

So I upgraded my Macbook Pro to Mac OS 10.6.3 and noticed a peculiarity with the change in iCal's dock icon.

The date is offset higher than it used to be. It is no longer centered in the white part of the icon, but centered vertically on the whole icon.

So I started up iCal in hopes that it was a one-time issue and that it would correct itself when it launched. Too bad that didn't work.

What's up with that, Apple? It looks horrible!

UPDATE:
Thanks Brent. Turns out I had multiple versions of Helvetica Neue installed and they were conflicting with each other. The installation of these fonts just happened to coincide with my upgrade to 10.6.3.

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24Oct/070

QUICKLINK: Understanding Buffer Overflows in OS X Leopard

OS X LeopardHow Leopard Will Improve Your Security

The most significant security update in Leopard is one that you'll never notice, but that will cause the bad guys no end of frustration. It's an anti-exploitation technology Apple calls Library Randomization (also known generically as Memory Randomization and as Address Space Layout Randomization in Windows Vista). To understand Library Randomization we need to take talk about vulnerabilities, exploits, and buffer overflows.

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