Apple recently released their latest update to the Mac OS X, 10.6, referred to as "Snow Leopard". Some of our customers have noted problems updating their Fortune Compass software after installing this on their Mac. We posted a new updater on our web site that fixes some issues (uses the latest Java 1.6 and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Java).

However there is a confusing alert dialog that appears when you power on a Fortune Compass attached to your Mac. This dialog did not appear in previous versions of OS X, and based on some other postings from unhappy Mac users for lots of reasons, might be changed by Apple in the future! In any event, if you get "A new network interface has been detected" alert, simply click on "Network Preferences" in that alert, then click on "Apply" in the Network preference panel that appears. Full details can be found in this document on our support page.

Not to be outdone, Microsoft has released the long awaited Windows 7 this past weekend..... so there will probably be updates needed to our documentation for the Windows install process too, we'll just have to see. If you are a windows user, the latest documentation with links to any necessary device drivers can be found here.

Sending you Success for all your computer interactions! -steve-