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Apple releases sixth beta of Mac OS X 10.6.4, no known issues reported

Apple this week issued a sixth beta of its Mac OS X 10.6.4 security and maintenance update for its Snow Leopard operating system. Per AppleInsider, the latest build remains free of known issues. According to sources close to the story, the beta, which was issued to developers last Tuesday, is labeled as “build 10F564”, weighs […]

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Adobe releases Camera Raw 6.1 update

Early Tuesday, software giant released version 6.1 of its Camera Raw plugin, a program which delivers access to “raw” image formats in professional and mid-range digital cameras from Canon, Fujifilm, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and others. The new update, a 61.9 megabyte download (courtesy of VersionTracker), includes the following fixes and changes: – This new version […]

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Hulu confirms, quickly retracts, vow of HTML5 support for iPad

Video streaming web site Hulu both posted and quickly retracted a blog post yesterday, the edited form stating that the web site doesn’t see using HTML5 in its immediate future. Per AppleInsider, Eugene Wei, vice president of product with Hulu, said that his company’s contractual requirements make the transition to HTML5 too difficult. The current […]

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Apple developing its own alternative to Flash via Gianduia

When in doubt, roll your own. As the multimedia wars continue between Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, Apple is using Gianduia, a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps that it introduced World of WebObjects Developers Conference last summer, to create its own production quality apps. Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is […]

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Jobs goes bananas on Adobe Flash in open letter

In the wake of several weeks of back and forth between Apple and Adobe regarding Flash, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has posted an open letter explaining Apple’s position on Flash, going back to his company’s long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. […]