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How-to: Upgrade your hard drive’s firmware via ISO images

This might be useful. A recent post on the Apple Core shows how you can manually install firmware updates for your hard drives via burning ISO images to CD or DVD, then working from there. It’s not exactly for the faint of heart, but David Morgenstern is there to guide you as needed. Head on […]

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Apple releases Aperture 3.4.3 update

Late last week, Apple released version 3.4.3 of Aperture, its pro-grade image editing application. The new version, which is available as a direct download or via Mac OS X’s Software update feature, is a 551 megabyte download and offers the following fixes and changes: – Addresses an issue that could cause a licensed copy of […]

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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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Hardware MacBook Pro News

Some users complain of “ghost image” on Retina Display MacBook Pro units

You have an awesome new Retina Display MacBook Pro. And it’s demonically possessed. Ok, it might not be that bad. Per The Next Web and Mac|Life, early adopters of the new MacBook Pro with Retina display have been complaining of image “ghosting” issues with the notebook’s display at Apple’s discussion boards. Users are referring to […]

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Recent patent application shows Apple’s interest in improving brightness controls on OLED screens

It’s the patent applications that show where things might be going. Per Free Patents Online, Apple has apparently proposed a way of improving brightness control on organic light emitting diode displays. One of the key advantages of OLED is that, unlike LCD, it does not employ a backlight to illuminate the screen. While this can […]