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Apple announces 27-inch iMac with Retina display, begins shipping units today

The rumors of the 5K Retina iMac were true. Per 9to5Mac, Apple today announced the first Retina desktop computer with the Retina 5K iMac, complete with a 5,120-by-2,880 pixel resolution that Apple claims is 30 percent more power efficient than the previous model. The new Retina 5K iMac will start at $US2499 for the all-in-one […]

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Microsoft finally patching up Skype message sync problems

For some time since Microsoft acquired Skype, the conferencing and messaging software, users have been plagued by messages that won’t sync from one device to another. Additional problems included delayed notifications of new messages or notification of messages that have already been read. Anyone who used iMessages in its early days will recall similar, frustrating issues […]

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Parallels Desktop updated to 9.0.23140

You can’t knock a useful update. Parallels Desktop 9.0.23140 has gone out the door. The new version, a 373.9 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and new features: – Resolves a problem with virtual machines crashing accidentally while running on Macs with OS X 10.9 Mavericks. – Resolves a problem with the Parallels Desktop GUI […]

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Parallels Desktop updated to 9.0.23062

Because updates are important in life. Parallels announced its Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac client today. The new version, a 356 megabyte download, offers the following set of fixes and features: – Resolves an issue with horizontal scrolling using a mouse not working in some applications. – You can now choose whether to download and […]

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VMWare Fusion 6 released, offers Mavericks, Windows 8.1 support

You can’t knock the new version of a pretty useful virtualization application. Per 9to5Mac, VMware has just released the immediate availability of VMware Fusion 6 and VMware Fusion 6 Professional. The new version of the virtualization software boasts over 50 new features and is prepared for the new operating systems coming from both Apple (Mavericks) […]