Late Monday, the Perian team released version 1.1.4 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle. The new version makes the following fixes and changes: Features: * Forced VobSub subtitles are imported into a separate […]
On Monday, Microsoft released updates for its Microsoft Office 2008 suite as well as its Open XML Converter applications. The Office 2008 update (which functions as a second service pack), is a 297 megabyte download that offers the following fixes and changes with a full description of the changes available here: Stability is improved: This […]
Early Tuesday, Mozilla.org released version 3.5.1 of its Firefox web browser. The new version, a 17.5 megabyte download, sports the following fixes and changes: Version 3.5.1 introduces a fix for a critical security hole, improving stability, and speeding launch time on some Windows systems. Firefox 3.5.1 is available in more than 70 different languages and […]
Late Thursday, Apple released iMovie 8.0.4, the latest version of its consumer-level video editing application. The new version, a 35.6 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: Fixed a problem with incorrect rotation when working with video created by iPhone 3GS. Resolved instability when adding multiple beat markers in some languages. Corrected an issue […]
Over on the mighty MacFixIt, reader “Martin V.” wrote in to desribe an ongoing issue wherein his new MacBook Air notebook began to experience a “kernel_task” process that caused his system to run abnormally hot. “A few months ago I bought a MacBookAir1,1 (standard hard disk, no solid state) which was then hugely reduced in […]