In the wake of an enormous operating system release, you can always expect some updates. Per MacRumors, Apple on Friday rolled out a firmware update for the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display enabling Mountain Lion’s new Power Nap feature two days following the new operating system’s release. The update, a 190 kilobyte download entitled […]
Day: July 27, 2012
This could turn into something interesting. Per Reuters, Apple has signed a deal to buy a Florida-based company, AuthenTec, at a price of US$8 per share or about US$356 million. That’s a premium of 58 percent over AuthenTec’s Thursday closing value. While largely unknown to the public, the firm makes fingerprint sensor chips used in […]
You can’t argue with a cheap price. Per AppleInsider, Best Buy is now selling Apple’s 8-gigabyte iPhone 4 for US$49.99 with a new two-year contract. The new price is half that of the regular US$99 price for the iPhone 4 with a new service contract. Reseller Best Buy is offering the US$49.99 upgrade price on […]
Late Wednesday, Adobe released Flash Player 11.3.300.268 for Mac OS X, a 10.9 megabyte download via MacUpdate. The new beta version includes the following fixes and changes: – Various general stability issues. Flash Player 11.3.300.268 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later to install and run. If you’ve tried the new […]
You can’t knock a useful update. On Friday, Dropbox released version 1.4.12 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 21.5 megabyte download, which adds OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion support. Dropbox 1.4.12 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run. If you’ve tried the new version […]