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Microsoft Releases Office 2004 11.5.4, Office 2008 12.1.7 Updates

On Tuesday, Microsoft released updates for both its Office 2004 and Office 2008 suites for the Mac. Microsoft Office 2004 version 11.5.4, a 9.7 megabyte download through the AutoUpdate program, offers stability and performance fixes and repairs a vulnerability in which an outside party could insert malicious code. The program requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 […]

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How-To

How-To: Work Around Delays, Hangs in Time Machine

Let’s face it, Time Machine is a spiffy and useful thing as well as one of the main bells and whistles of Mac OS X 10.5. This isn’t to say it’s without its bugs and despite Apple’s best efforts, there are times where backups appear to hang or stall out sans warning. You may be […]

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Software

SpamSieve Updated to 2.7.4

Michael Tsai’s must-have shareware program, SpamSieve, has just been updated to version 2.7.4. The new version, a 5.8 megabyte download, makes the following fixes and improvements: Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). SpamSieve is better able to recover from corpus files that were damaged due to disk errors. Improved […]

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News

Jobs Apparently Still “Closely Involved” in “Key Aspects” of Apple

According to “people familiar with the matter,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs remains “closely involved” with “key aspects” of running Apple according to a Wall Street Journal article. Though currently on medical leave since January, the paper is reporting that Jobs is working hard from home and is still involved in both strategy and key products, […]

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iPod shuffle Software

Apple Releases VoiceOver Kit 1.0.1 Update for iPod Shuffle

Late Friday, Apple released its VoiceOver Kit 1.0.1, an update containing several fixes for the newest generation of its iPod Shuffle media player. According to Macworld UK, the update, a 17 megabyte download contains corrected pronunciations for several artist names as well as a series of unspecified minor bug fixes. The update is currently not […]