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Apple announces High Sierra, points out forthcoming changes

macOS High Sierra is coming. macOS 10.13, also known as macOS 10.13 High Sierra, was announced today at WWDC, complete with Apple executive Craig Federighi highlighting the following changes: Safari: Apple benchmarked a new version of Safari, which offered 80 percent better performance on modern JavaScript, blocking of auto-play videos and Intelligent Tracking Prevention using […]

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Motion Picture Experts Group releases H.265 draft standard, offers Web-based video at twice the quality, half the data size

If you think Web-based video is impressive now, wait a bit. Per AppleInsider, the Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data rate as today’s MPEG-4 H.264 standard. The new H.265 […]

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Apple releases iOS 6 beta 4, removes YouTube app in newest developer version

Apple on Monday afternoon released the 4th beta of iOS 6 to developers and in the process appears to have nixed the inclusion of the once-standard YouTube app in what appears to be an escalation of tensions between the company and rival Google. Per AppleInsider, upon installing the release, sources familiar with the software confirm […]

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HandBrake updated to 0.9.7

Handbrake, Eric Petit’s incredibly useful open-source DVD ripping/conversion utility, has been updated to version 0.9.7. The new version, a 7.1 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: Supported Sources: – VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted — CSS is not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), […]

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Elgato releases EyeTV 3.5.4 update

On Wednesday, Elgato Systems released version 3.5.4 of its EyeTV software application, which finds and tracks all television programming you want to see and allows users to pause live television and save content to file. The new version, a 133.6 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: New: – EyeTV Sat, EyeTV Sat Free […]