Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), has recently been updated to version 0.9.9a. The new version, a 31.6 megabyte download, fixes the application’s behavior on PowerPC-based Macs and includes updated libraries for the Mac OS X platforms. VLC 0.9.9a requires […]
Late Thursday, virtualization softare maker VMWare released version 2.0.3 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 […]
Late Wednesday, Omni released version 5.9.1 of its OmniWeb web browser. The new version, a 23.3 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: Implemented support for the Gopher protocol–a first for WebKit-based browsers. OmniWeb 5.9.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run. If you’ve played with the new version and […]
On Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 4.3.3 of Cocktail (Tiger Edition), Cocktail, the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 1.9 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: Major improvements on the clear potentially harmful files procedure. Added clearing of the latest (F […]
Late Monday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, has released version 3.2.1 of the program. The new version, a 2.7 megabyte download, adds the following changes: Resolved interface issues with non-English localizations. Resolved an issue in which, in some circumstances, rsync was unable to create a directory if […]