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Adobe releases Flash Player 11.8.800.146 beta

When in doubt, there’s always the public beta to make things a bit better. On Thursday, Adobe released Flash Player 11.8.800.115 for Mac OS X, an 18 megabyte download via MacUpdate. The new version adds the following fixes and changes: – Includes new features as well as enhancements and bug fixes related to security, stability, […]

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President Obama, Tim Cook, others meet to discuss PRISM surveillance

It’s not the happiest topic, but they’re meeting to discuss it. On Thursday, President Obama met with Tim Cook and other tech executives from companies like Google and AT&T to discuss government surveillance according to Politico. Civil liberties leaders were also at the closed-door meeting. The White House declined to comment about the details of […]

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Microsoft releases Office 2011 14.3.6 update

An update’s an update. Microsoft on Wednesday released version 14.3.6 of its Microsoft Office 2011 suite for the Mac. The update, a 113 megabyte download, features the following changes: – This update fixes an issue in which Outlook repeatedly tried to send messages that exceeded certain server-side size limits from the Outbox. Now, messages that […]

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Apple releases Security Update 2013-003 for Mountain Lion users

You might want to snag this. Per the Mac Observer, Apple released Security Update 2013-003 for Mountain Lion on Tuesday. The update’s specific security changes can be found here. Security Update 2013-003 showed up earlier in the day on Tuesday, but quickly disappeared from Apple’s site. It reappeared late in the afternoon with a “1.0” […]

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iOS 7 developer beta incorporates password disable feature

As mentioned before, it’s the beta versions that point out the cool stuff on the horizon. Per AppleInsider, Apple’s latest beta build of iOS 7 makes it more difficult for thieves to get away with stealing an iOS device by requiring a user’s password to be entered when disabling the “Find My iPhone” functionality. The […]