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Apple seeds updated Mac OS X 10.7.2 build, iCloud beta 9 to developer community

Apple on Friday supplied developers with a new beta build of Mac OS X 10.7.2, as well as iCloud for Lion beta 9 for testing purposes, just a few days after the last beta builds were issued. Per AppleInsider, sources familiar with the latest beta of Lion 10.7.2 said it is known as build 11C43 […]

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News Software

Adium updated to 1.4.2

Adium, the open source instant message chat client with support for multiple programs (including AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo! Google Talk, Bonjour, etc.) has been updated to version 1.4.2. The new version, a 22 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: Updated to libpurple 2.7.11. Highlights of applicable changes: MSN: – Fixed […]

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News security Software

New “MAC Defender” malware variant surfaces, works way around recent security update

Only one day after Apple released a security update for Mac OS X to address the “MAC Defender” malware, a new variant of the bogus antivirus software has been spotted in the wild. Per ZDNet, the new variation of MAC Defender, named “Mdinstall.pkg,” has been crafted to bypass the new malware-blocking code made available by […]

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Apple releases Security Update 2011-003, removes Mac Defender malware

Beating the expected arrival date (the Mac OS X 10.6.8 update had been anticipated to take care of this), Apple has released Security Update 2011-003, which adds malware detection and removal for the “MAC Defender” scam and delivers a daily update mechanism for updating subsequent malware definitions. Per AppleInsider, the 2.3 megabyte security update for […]

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MacBook Air News

Users report bugs in iChat video recording on current-gen MacBook Air notebooks

You love your new MacBook Air. You would have asked it to prom if it had been around back then. And it might not be able to record video chats despite having the hardware to do so. According to MacFixIt, a reader wrote to state has not been able to record video chats in iChat […]