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Cocktail 5.0 (Lion Edition) released

Late Wednesday, shareware developer Maintain released version 5.0 of Cocktail (Lion Edition), Cocktail, the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 2 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Added Mac OS X 10.7 compatibility. – Miscellaneous bug fixes and overall improvements. – […]

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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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Apple releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant to function with external hard drives

If your Lion partition is being finicky, this might help. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Monday released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant software to enable users to create recovery partitions on external drives. Lion Recovery Disk Assistant expands Apple’s Recovery features in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to add support for creating a Recovery Disk on external […]

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Onyx 2.3.0 released

Onyx, Titanium Software’s popular freeware multifunction utility for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 2.3.0. The new version, a 18.8 megabyte download (courtesy of MacUpdate), adds the following fixes and changes: – Bug while deleting the Safari cookies corrected. – Some little improvements. Onyx 2.3.0 requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later to […]

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Apple AirPort Utility 5.5.3 update may point towards next-gen AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule devices

It may be a small update, but it could mean something more. Per AppleInsider, a routine update to Apple’s Airport Utility application contains references to new 4th generation Time Capsule and 5th generation AirPort Extreme devices, according to a new report. After Apple released the AirPort Utility 5.5.3 update for Windows and Mac on Monday, […]