Late Tuesday, Apple released its Snow Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 patch. The update, a 65.7 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Addresses frame rate issues occurring in Portal and Team Fortress 2 by Valve, on iMac (Late 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac mini (Early 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Early 2009), […]
Month: August 2010
This is strange but you might like it. Per MacStories, modder Bart Reardon has disassembled a perfectly functional MacBook Air in an attempt to make his own keyboard/mouse combo. While he’s not quite finished yet, he has managed to get all the main components to fit under an Apple keyboard and Magic Trackpad, and he’s […]
Late Friday, virtualization softare maker VMWare released version 3.1.1 of its Fusion software for the Mac. Similar to other virtualization software packages, VMWare allows users to run alternate operating systems such as Windows and Linux distributions on Intel-based Macs at native speeds. Other features, such as Unity, allow users to run and minimize Windows applications […]
Per a quick release on the Near Field Communications World web site and his LinkedIn profile, Apple has tapped telecom guru Benjamin Vigier as its new Product Manager of Mobile Commerce. The hire immediately follows his handiwork on PayPal Mobile, Sprint MyMoneyManager and the iPhone-based Starbucks Card. Prior to this, he spent two years heading […]
Late last week, Apple seeded the first build of what will ship as the free Mac OS X 10.6.5 update later this fall. According to AppleInsider, the new build, numbered 10H525, incorporates fixes to existing problems with Exchange Server support, fixes user interface issues with embedded WebKit views in applications such as iTunes, and includes […]