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Apple releases third Mac OS X 10.6.8 build to developer community

If you’re hankering for the Mac OS X 10.6.8 update, it’s coming. On Friday, Apple seeded the third build of Mac OS X 10.6.8 to developers, with no known issues. Per AppleInsider, the 1GB download is labeled 10K531. MacStories reports that focus areas for the beta software remain unchanged: Airport, Graphics Drivers, Mac App Store, […]

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Apple releases second beta build of Mac OS X 10.6.8 to developer community

Apple on Thursday issued the second beta build of Mac OS X 10.6.8 to developers with no known issues. Per AppleInsider, both the Combo Update and the Delta Update for Mac OS X 10.6.8 build 10K524 are a 1GB download. According to sources close to the story, focus areas for the build include Airport, Graphics […]

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Mozilla releases Firefox 4.0 web browser

Late Tuesday, Mozilla.org released version 4.0 of its Firefox web browser. The new version stands as an 26.8 megabyte download offered the following fixes and changes: – Firefox 4 is available in over 80 languages – Uses JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine that is up to six times faster than Firefox 3.6 – Support […]

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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 […]

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Apple addresses security concerns with QuickTime 7.6.9 update for Mac OS X 10.5.x operating systems

Per the cool cats over at CNET, Apple has updated its Quicktime software, now at version 7.6.9, to fix vulnerabilities where a maliciously designed file could execute arbitrary code or lead to the application terminating. As Apple describes in its knowledge base article: “Description: A heap buffer overflow exists in QuickTime’s handling of JP2 images. […]