Even if you feel absolutely secure in entering your PIN every time you unlock your iPhone, there may still be some security shortfalls. Per a blog post by Bernd Marienfeldt, Marienfeldt and fellow security wonk Jim Herbeck have discovered that plugging even a fully up-to-date, non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS into a computer running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx […]
Month: May 2010
It’s all falling together as it has in years past. Per Boy Genius Report, AT&T employees have been informed that the phone is actually coming, and may in fact be on sale in the month of June. The announcement matches employee vacations for June affecting the cell carrier and back at the end of April, […]
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VLC updated to 1.1.0 release candidate
Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 1.1.0 release candidate. The new version, a 23.1 megabyte download, adds a massive list of fixes and changes detailed here. VLC 1.1.0 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to […]
Half-Life 2, the groundbreaking first-person shooter, will become available for Mac OS X today via the Steam digital storefront. The game follows the exploits of scientist Gordon Freeman as he fights through the dystopian world of City 17 in an effort to battle and interdimensional force known as the Combine. Per AppleInsider, Valve, the developer […]
Michael Tsai’s must-have shareware program, SpamSieve, has just been updated to version 2.8.2. The new version, a 5.9 megabyte download, makes the following fixes and improvements: Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X. – Added Dutch, Italian, and Swedish localizations. – Made various code improvements and modernizations. – SpamSieve is better able to […]