On Tuesday, version 5.7.60.1037 of the Skype VoIP application was released. The new version, a 23.5 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – We have made overall improvements to the product quality and calling experience. – Following user feedback, we have enabled Volume Control in the Preferences for users who use USB headsets. […]
Month: April 2012
There’s gotta be some truth to this somewhere… Per DigiTimes, Intel has moved up the announcement of its next-generation Ivy Bridge processors from the original date of April 29 to April 23 as PC makers ready the second generation of ultrabooks, expected to arrive in May. The publication claimed on Thursday that sources from notebook […]
This is sort of interesting. An investigation into the custom A5 chip used in Apple TV has found that the new Application Processor uses both a smaller, more efficient 32nm die process and actually incorporates two cores, one of which is simply turned off. Per Chipworks, the custom A5 “APL2498” used in the third generation, […]
Late Wednesday, Adobe released Flash Player 11.3.300.214 for Mac OS X, a 10.9 megabyte download via MacUpdate. The new beta version includes the following fixes and changes: – Texture streaming. – Background Updater for Mac. – Driver gating hardware acceleration relaxed to 2006. – MouseEvent.RELEASE_OUTSIDE. – ApplicationDomain.getQualifiedDefinitionNames(). – Improved Mac App Store Support. – Simulator […]
It’s the benchmarks that make an upcoming technology that much more interesting. Per CPU World, a series of benchmark tests demonstrates how the much-anticipated Ivy Bridge architecture in the upcoming MacBook Pro notebooks could show fairly significant improvements in performance, particularly in graphics. The chip being tested was the Core i7-3820QM, a 2.7 GHz processor […]