Apple this week released four new printer drivers for Mac OS Snow Leopard. This update include printers from Cannon, Brother, HP and Lexmark. The updates require Mac OS X 10.6.1 or later.

You can download all individual updates directly from Apple for Canon (274.59MB), Brother (99.9MB), HP (387.44MB) and Lexmark (117MB). A full list of printer and scanner compatibility is also available on Apple's support Web site.

Snow Leopard includes a number of printer-related features, including "Nearby Printers," a list of available printers that will appear right inside your printer dialog box. Users can simply connect a USB printer and the print queue will be automatically created.
[via Apple Insider]

11th November Apple has released an update to its Safari Web browser, addressing a vulnerability that could allow an image file to exploit Macs with older software.

According to Apple, the flaw allowed maliciously crafted images with an embedded color profile to execute arbitrary code, or unexpectedly terminate the application. The issue does not affect Mac OS X 10.6 systems, and was already addressed with Security Update 2009-005 for Mac OS X 10.5.8 systems.

The 36.2MB download is available via Software Update. In addition to the security patch, Safari 4.0.4 is said to offer:

• Improved JavaScript performance
  
  
• Improved Full History Search performance for users with a large number of history items
  
  
• Stability improvements for third-party plug-ins, the search field and Yahoo Mail

The last update to Safari, 4.0.3, was released in August. It provided stability improvements for Web pages that use the HTML 5 video tag, and fixed issues that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com

 

[via Apple Insider]