According to 9to5Mac, Apple has quietly introduced a new specification in its Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) program that allows headphones that connect to iOS devices use a Lightning connector instead of the usual 3.5mm headphone jack. The ability to use such hardware doesn’t exist on iDevices yet, but a software update sometime in the future will likely enable […]
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It’s been a little while since Apple released a supplemental update… On Thursday, Apple released OS X 10.8.5 Supplemental Update 1.0. The update, an 831 megabyte download (for the combo updater) adds the following fixes and changes: – Resolves an issue that may prevent certain applications from using the FaceTime HD camera on mid-2013 MacBook […]
Late Tuesday, virtualization softare maker VMWare released version 6.0.1 of its Fusion software for the Mac. Similar to other virtualization software packages, VMWare allows users to run alternate operating systems such as Windows and Linux distributions on Intel-based Macs at native speeds. Other features, such as Unity, allow users to run and minimize Windows applications […]
You can’t turn down a helpful web browser update. On Friday, Mozilla.org released version 23.0.1 of its Firefox web browser. The new version, a 44.4 megabyte download via MacUpdate, adds the following fixes and changes: – [Fixed] Spellchecking broken with non-ASCII characters in profile path. – [Fixed] Audio static/”burble”/breakup in Firefox to Firefox WebRTC calls. […]
This could come in handy. Per The United States Patent and Trademark Office and AppleInsider, an Apple patent application discovered on Thursday describes a set of earbud type headphones that automatically adjust audio output based on seal quality, with necessary impedance data gathered by built-in microphones or electrical current measurements. The patent application, entitled “Electronic […]