When in doubt, there’s always some interesting stuff in the logs. Per the cool cats at MacRumors and his own blog, developer Marco Arment he noticed the two “curious entries” in Instapaper’s device stats on Friday, positing the device identifiers could offer clues to the supposed tablets’ internal hardware. As a side note, Arment said, […]
Month: August 2012
With any luck, the patch fixed the issue. Per AppleInsider, Oracle on Thursday released a patch for the Java 1.7 runtime, plugging a recently discovered security hole that allowed malware to take over any operating system when a user visits a malicious website. In an update to its “CVE-2012-4681” security alert, Oracle addressed three separate […]
Late Thursday, Opera Software released version 12.02 of its web browser. The new version, a 28.2 megabyte download via MacUpdate, boasts the following fixes and changes: General and User Interface: – Several general fixes and stability improvements. – Resolved an issue with Speed Dial thumbnails when automatic scaling is enabled. Security: – Fixed an issue […]
Hey, a web browser update is still a web browser update. On Thursday, Google released a beta of version 21.0.1180.89 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 43.8 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Several Pepper Flash fixes (Issue 140577, 144107, 140498, 142479).. – Microphone issues with tinychat.com (Issue: 143192). – […]
You can’t knock a solid version release. Per The Mac Observer, Parallels has announced the release of Desktop 8 for Mac, its virtualization software that allows OS X users to run a wide variety of other operating systems, notably Windows. The many enhancements in Desktop 8, including Windows 8 support, are aimed at making the […]