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Rumor: Apple developing higher-quality audio file format for use in 2016

You can’t knock an upgraded sound file. Apple is rumored to be working on a higher-quality audio streaming file format for use in 2016 and beyond. Anonymous sources at the Portable Audio Festival in Tokyo cited that the company has been developing Hi-Res Audio streaming up to 96kHz/24bit in 2016.

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Batch renaming guide for multiple files in OS X Yosemite surfaces

In the realm of “cool/useful operating system tricks”, this ranks up pretty high. The cool cats at TekRevue have posted a guide as to how to perform batch renaming in OS X Yosemite. This becomes handy as your number of files grows and you need a decent system for organization. Prior to OS X Yosemite, […]

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Google Chrome updated to 23.0.1271.95

You can’t knock a bug fix. Late Monday, Google released a beta of version Google Chrome updated to 23.0.1271.95 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 56.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – [161564] High CVE-2012-5138: Incorrect file path handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla). – [$7331] [162835] […]

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Skype posts workaround instructions for connection issues found on Mac OS X, Windows (updated)

Er, if Microsoft paid US$8.5 billion for something, I suppose they’d like it to work on all the platforms it services… Per Macworld, Skype has published workaround instructions for correcting an issue that prevented many Mac users from successfully logging into the service. The company also published a set on instructions focused on resolving connections […]

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DivX for Mac 7.0 Out the Door

DivX for Mac, the shareware player that allows users to view high definition H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and video, hit version 7.0 yesterday. The new version, a 23.2 megabyte download (courtesy of VersionTracker), allows for expanded playback of the .divx and the .avi formats on the Mac. The player requires Mac OS X […]