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Drive Genius updated to 3.2.2, adds fixes

Prosoft Engineering has released Drive Genius 3.2.2, an updated version of its drive repair and recovery program for Mac OS X. The new version, a 15.2 megabyte

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard install DVDs surface in Apple online store, available for $19.99

In as much as it’s useful to keep operating systems on thumb drives and recovery partitions, there are times where you miss having an emergency DVD on hand. That being said, this should be useful. Discovered by French web site MacGeneration and the mighty Mac Observer, Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard has returned […]

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Initial tests show faster boot, read and write times under Apple’s Fusion Drive

There may be ample reason to go with a Fusion Drive inside your Mac. Per Techfast Lunch&Dinner, a series of tests run by the site found the Fusion Drive Mac mini started in just 15.7 seconds, while the 2012 Mac mini with a traditional hard drive took 34.1 seconds to start. Major improvements were also […]

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Rumor: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion resource files hint at possible next-gen iMac, Mac Pro models without optical drives

It’s the internal files that hint at the upcoming cool stuff. Per AppleInsider, internal configuration files in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion make apparent references to yet-unreleased new generations of Apple’s iMac (iMac13,0) and Mac Pro (MacPro6,0), both in the context of USB booting options that indicate the new Mac desktops could, for the first […]

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Google releases Google Chrome, Google Drive for iOS

It had to happen sometime. Per Mac|Life, on Thursday, Google announced the release of both its Google Chrome and Google Drive apps for iOS on Thursday. Announced during the company’s day two keynote at Google I/O, the pair of free universal apps have been long awaited from iOS users. Google Drive version 1.0.1 is already […]