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Apple Mac Mavericks Mountain Lion OS X Social Software Yosemite

Apple turns off legacy AIM access and inadvertently kills it for everyone

Well, I say “inadvertently”, but no word on whether it was in fact so, or if it was intentional…or maybe Apple just doesn’t care enough to make sure it was functional for Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite users (granted, Yosemite is still in beta). As it was foretold many months ago by messages from Apple itself, […]

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Older versions of OS X to lose AIM iChat login support

In a new support article, Apple has indicated its intention to remove the ability to use a mac.com or me.com ID to login to the AIM service via iChat on OS X systems older than 10.7.2 as of June 30th, 2014. To continue using the service, the article recommends either updating to 10.7.5 if you wish to […]

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SpamSieve updated to 2.9.6

You can’t knock a useful chunk of shareware. Michael Tsai’s must-have shareware program, SpamSieve, has just been updated to version 2.9.6. The new version, a 10.7 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10.8.2 that could cause spam operations in Postbox to be very slow. […]