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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7.1 update

Late Tuesday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.7.1, the update to its recently-released Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” operating system. The update, a 79.1 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – Address an issue that may cause the system to become unresponsive when playing a video in Safari. – Resolve an issue that […]

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Apple releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant to function with external hard drives

If your Lion partition is being finicky, this might help. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Monday released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant software to enable users to create recovery partitions on external drives. Lion Recovery Disk Assistant expands Apple’s Recovery features in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to add support for creating a Recovery Disk on external […]

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Onyx 2.3.0 released

Onyx, Titanium Software’s popular freeware multifunction utility for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 2.3.0. The new version, a 18.8 megabyte download (courtesy of MacUpdate), adds the following fixes and changes: – Bug while deleting the Safari cookies corrected. – Some little improvements. Onyx 2.3.0 requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later to […]

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Adobe announce Edge 1.0 HTML 5 creation tool, offers preview for free

Sometimes you have to transition to the next thing. Per Adobe’s blog, Adobe has released a free public preview of Edge, a new motion and interaction design tool that lets users build Flash-style animated Web content using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Edge is planned for commercial release sometime next year and is designed to work […]

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Security researcher to illustrate MacBook batteries’ vulnerabilities to malware

In the category of “weird but interesting and mildly disturbing”, a prominent security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the batteries of Apple’s MacBook line of portable computers that could allow hackers to ruin the batteries or install malware on them that could corrupt a Mac. Per Forbes, Charlie Miller, a renowned white-hat hacker who […]