One of the coolest bits of shareware just got a hefty update. Little Snitch, which monitors Mac network traffic for suspicious activity, has reached version 6.0, remains focused around the easy blacklisting and whitelisting of apps and services, and offers the following of new fixes and features: Little Snitch 6 retails for $59 as a […]
When in doubt, go back to the networking protocol that works best. And, hey, it should hopefully fix some of the Wi-Fi bugs in Yosemite. Apple, in an apparent effort to fix DNS errors seen in its Yosemite operating system, will be replacing its buggy discoveryd service with mDNSResponder, a process last implemented in OS […]
The Great Apple ID Snafu of 2015 is over. And it apparently cost Apple about US$25 million in lost sales revenue. Over the course of a 12-hour outage between Tuesday and Wednesday, Apple’s iTunes Store and App Store were down due to a DNS error. During this time, users couldn’t purchase apps, songs, movies or […]
‘Tis a day for updates. Per 9to5Mac, Apple has released OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 with bug fixes and performance improvements for Macs running the latest version of the desktop operating system. The update offers the following fixes and changes: – Improves Wi-Fi reliability. – Improves reliability when connecting to a Microsoft Exchange server. – Resolves […]
The update didn’t go exactly as planned. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog and MacRumors, the Apple TV update yesterday that added five new channels to the set-top box. However, the also prevents the PlexConnect streaming media client from running on the Apple TV. Released in June, PlexConnect allowed Apple TV users to view stored movies […]