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Posted June 20, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Software
Apple has released a new Thunderbolt update (1.2.1) which promises not to crash your Mac this time around. For those of you who have been patiently waiting in hopes of avoiding a system crash, it should now be safe to…
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Posted June 12, 2012, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Software
In addition to a number of major product announcements, Apple also showed off its new Thunderbolt-based gigabit network and FireWire adapters Monday at the 2012 WWDC. In order to enable support for the adapters on older Macs, Apple rolled out…
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Posted May 7, 2012, 9:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, IT Security
Security researcher David Emery has exposed what it claims is a major security bug in the currently shipping version of OS X Lion (10.7.3), which causes login passwords to be stored in a plain text file. The flaw specifically affects…
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Posted April 19, 2012, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Software
According to an email from Apple sent to MobileMe subscribers, the company has begun giving away free copies of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). Although a seemingly charitable move on the surface, this may actually be a necessary action…
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Posted August 1, 2011, 5:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
At the end of July 2011, Microsoft can say that Windows XP finally fell below the 50 percent mark. In other words, Redmond's decade-old operating system is now used by less than half of all Internet users.
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Posted July 20, 2011, 8:54 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Software Breaking News
Apple has officially flipped the switch on its next major update to OS X: version 10.7, codenamed Lion, is now available from the Mac App Store as an upgrade to Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard -- you'll need…
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Posted June 24, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Software
Apple has released what seems to be the last update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard before its next major operating system version, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, hits the market. Mac OS X 10.6.8 is now available for download…
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Posted June 13, 2011, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Software
The folks over at MacRumors have discovered an unadvertised feature in the latest Mac OS X Lion Developer build: the ability to run your computer in a web-only computing environment à la Chrome OS. The feature reportedly appears as a…
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Posted May 31, 2011, 3:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Apple
Apple has officially confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs will continue the tradition of presenting the opening keynote address at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011 on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 AM. Along with a team of Apple executives, he…
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Posted March 9, 2011, 2:34 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in TechSpot, Apple
By now it's clear Apple has drawn a lot of inspiration from its popular iPhone and iPad devices, making significant changes to OS X and adding features that are focused on simplifying the overall user experience.

Compared to its predecessor, Mac OS X Lion is a more significant release in terms of functionality, user interface and workflow improvements. We've compiled a list with several of the changes and new features disclosed so far. Read on for a quick tour of what's new.
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Posted February 24, 2011, 10:49 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Apple, Software Breaking News
While much of the attention in recent months has centered on the iPad and what Apple has now confirmed will unveil next March 2nd, the company has also been hard at work on the next iteration of OS X.
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