Come the OS X 10.8.1 update, your Apple notebook’s battery life could improve significantly. Per Softpedia, substantial improvements were discovered by an unnamed developer after installing OS X 10.8.1. Previously, the developer’s MacBook was reportedly showing a battery life of 4 hours and 5 minutes after a full charge, but installing the beta software increased […]
Day: August 21, 2012
VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.1.20. The new version, a 101.3 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – VMM: fixed a crash under rare circumstances for VMs running without hardware virtualization. – VMM: fixed a code analysis bug for certain displacement instructions for VMs […]
On Tuesday, software developer eidac released version 2.4 of its smcFanControl utility, a free program that allows users to adjust the minimum fan speed of their Intel-based Macs, thereby allowing the unit to potentially run cooler. The new version, a 768 kilobyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Support for OS X 10.8 […]
This could be interesting. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent that allows users to skip unwanted audio and video broadcast segments such as commercials with on-device content like songs, podcasts or other media, possibly hinting at technology headed to the battle for the living room. Apple’s […]