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Apple offers first look at next-gen Mac Pro at WWDC

The new Mac Pro is en route. And it’s really, really, awesomely black. Per Macworld, Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller unveiled the company’s upcoming Mac Pro during a “sneak peek” at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The upcoming new desktop workstation features a sleek, cylindrical design that’s a stark contrast to the mammoth, […]

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VLC updated to 2.0.7

Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 2.0.7. The new version, a 41.9 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Fix track selection for PowerPC machines. – Fix audio decoding for WMA Pro, MPEG 4 […]

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard install DVDs surface in Apple online store, available for $19.99

In as much as it’s useful to keep operating systems on thumb drives and recovery partitions, there are times where you miss having an emergency DVD on hand. That being said, this should be useful. Discovered by French web site MacGeneration and the mighty Mac Observer, Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard has returned […]

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Intel CEO Paul Otellini to retire next May

Come next May, someone new steps in as head of Intel. The processor giant announced on Monday that president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has elected to retire as an officer and director of the company effective next May according to the Washington Post. Otellini’s retirement caps a career of nearly 40 years of continuous service […]

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VLC updated to 2.0.4

Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 2.0.4. The new version, a 43.3 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Rework of the Mac OS X interface. – Fix video output on old Macs, notably […]