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Roxio releases revised Toast Titanium 11.1 update

This is a little awkward, but people make mistakes and that’s why pencils have erasers. On Friday, Roxio released a revised version of the Toast Titanium 11.1 update. Per the release notes, the new build (1067) fixed bugs that the previous build (1063) had introduced. The new build, a 92.8 megabyte download, offers the following […]

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SpamSieve updated to 2.9.4

You can’t knock improvements to a pretty-much-indispensable shareware application. Michael Tsai’s must-have shareware program, SpamSieve, has just been updated to version 2.9.4. The new version, a 10 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and improvements: – Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy. – Revised and expanded the Frequently Asked Questions to make it […]

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Oracle releases patch for Java 1.7, works to close hole on discovered security flaw

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 […]

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VirtualBox updated to 4.1.20

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 […]

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smcFanControl updated to 2.4, Mountain Lion, Retina support among changes included

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 […]