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Google’s Schmidt hints at “highest quality” tablet within six months

Where there’s money to be made, there shall be competition. Per Electronista, Google chairman Eric Schmidt in an interview with Italy’s Corriere Della Sera raised the prospect of a Nexus tablet. The search firm planned to sell a tablet of the “highest quality” within six months’ time. He didn’t mention the Nexus label by name, […]

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Cocktail 5.1.1 (Lion Edition) released

On Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 5.1.1 of CocktailCocktail (Lion Edition), the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 2.9 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Addresses compatibility issues with Google Chrome extensions. – Added “Enable AirDrop on older Macs” setting […]

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Google releases Picasa 3.9.0.522 update, adds social networking features

On Friday, software giant Google released Picasa 3.9.0.522, the latest version of its photo organization program for the Mac. Once installed, Picasa imports (without moving or copying) photos from the iPhoto library as well as other folders and external hard drives on your Mac. The program also includes assorted editing tools for straightening, text generation, […]

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Google Earth 6.1.0.5001 released

On Monday, software giant Google released version 6.1.0.5001 of its popular Google Earth program. The new version, a 30.6 megabyte download, adds a slew of fixes and changes that can be found here. Google Earth 6.1.0.5001 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run. If you’ve tried the […]

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Apple releases iOS 5.1 SDK beta, Xcode 4.3 preview, references upcoming iOS devices

The next major iOS update: it’s usually a pretty cool thing. Per Electronista, Apple has released a new iOS 5.1 beta for developer testing on all iPad, iPod touch and iPhone models that support iOS 5.0. The beta contains references to next-generation iPhone and iPad models with references to a next-generation iPhone, “iPhone5,1,” as well […]