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Apple reaching out to users for iPhone 4S battery life data, firmware update may be in the works

With any luck, a firmware update will fix the issue. Per The Guardian, responding to complaints of battery life issues with the iPhone 4S, engineers from Apple are said to have contacted customers directly in an effort to solve any issues. One user who spoke with the newspaper said that he was contacted by Apple, […]

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Controversy surfaces over Kagi’s VisualHub updater

There’s good news and bad news. The good news: VisualHub, a beloved video converter utility that exported to roughly nine zillion formats but was discontinued in 2008, has been updated with support from the author. The bad news: It apparently wasn’t updated in a way that the author, Tyler Loch, approved of. Per Macworld, Kagi, […]

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Forthcoming Microsoft Office 2011 update to add support for Mac OS X 10.7 feature base

The good news: Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) is out. The bad news: Not all of Microsoft’s products support all of the Mac OS X 10.7 feature base. Still, there may be hope on the horizon. Per the Office for Mac blog, Microsoft has revealed that a forthcoming update for Office for Mac 2011 will […]

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Opera Mini web browser 6.0 released, now native for both iPhone and iPad

It’s an interesting alternative to Apple’s Mobile Safari web browser for its iOS devices. And it just got a fairly large overhaul. Per Mac|Life, the popular Opera Mini web browser just reached version 6.0 and is available as a redesigned, universal app that finally brings some love to the bigger screen of the iPad as […]

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Mac OS X 10.6.7 internal references point to widening graphics card support for future Mac hardware

Dig around inside an update’s code and you’ll find all sorts of interesting stuff. Per the tonymacx86 Blog, the Mac OS X 10.6.7 update for early 2011 Mac Book Pro models features native graphics acceleration for some Radeon HD 5000- and 6000-series cards. The supported cards are off-the-shelf graphics processing units, not Mac-only cards as […]