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Google has finally released a Mac OS X version of its WebKit-based Internet browser, Google Chrome . Chrome is notable for launching each tab as a separate process to isolate security breaches, reduce waits from JavaScript hangups, and make a crash in a tab take down that process instead of all ...
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Apple has quietly updated its professional and server lines with new high-end configurations. The Mac Pro quad-core model now includes an option to replace the base configuration's 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon processor with a 3.33 GHz Intel Xeon. Price? $1,200 for the processor swap.
Newly ...
Hardware
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Intel
In this most recent MacNotables podcast, Adam and Andy Ihnatko talked with host Chuck Joiner about the demise of the CrunchPad tablet briefly before focusing on iPhone GPS apps and what they do right and wrong. (Don't miss the outtakes!) Read and post comments about this article | Tweet ...
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The inimitable Andy Ihnatko writes on his Celestial Waste of Bandwith blog about testing Dragon Dictation, the free iPhone version of Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation software. Andy accidentally discovers that Dragon Dictation censors naughty words, which practically forces him to ...
iPhone
App Store
It's advice week on TidBITS Talk! Readers are looking for advice on a number of topics, including: finding software to get an old scanner to work, troubleshooting problems with Disk Utility and a crashing Mac Pro, locating a Leopard install disc for an iBook G4, using Logitech software with a ...
Hardware
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Logitech
The results of our annual call for gift ideas and subsequent reader ratings of those ideas are in! We have once again analyzed the data gathered from the Gift Guide survey so we can offer you a list of gifts that TidBITS readers really care about, either to give or to receive. Where possible, ...
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I know a lot of people hate iCal, but I've always been a fan. As a longtime Microsoft Outlook user, I appreciate iCal's simplicity and clean display. It isn't that Outlook does anything wrong - I think it's vastly superior to competing enterprise messaging and calendaring solutions - but if you ...
Software
Apple
AT&T; has released a free iPhone app called AT&T; Mark the Spot to let you report network trouble directly to the firm. The app uses GPS data to report your location when you tell the company of a failed call, no coverage, data failure, or poor voice quality. This is a superb idea on AT&T;'s ...
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Editor Glenn Fleishman discovered that Apple boosted the highest possible speed of its AirPort Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule in the October 2009 hardware refresh. The top raw rate is now 450 Mbps - but new adapters will be required to use those speeds. Read and post comments ...
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Brad Stone of The New York Times reveals that Apple has agreed to buy the digital music company Lala. In contrast with iTunes, from which users must download purchased music before playing, Lala lets users play their music directly from the Web on a computer or smartphone with Internet access. ...
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Dialectic 1.5 -- JNSoftware has released a significant maintenance update to the phone dialing utility Dialectic . The latest version adds incoming call detection for the iPhone, a Services workflow item to enable contextual menu dialing for Snow Leopard users, a Google Quick Search plug-in, ...
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Interesting articles we found this week look at Apple's acquisition of the Lala digital music service, the Kindle 2's new PDF functionality, fallacies of cloud computing, and a new mobile payment processing service, plus a fun discussion between Adam and Your Mac Life host Shawn King.
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A year after its last significant update, version 0.9.4 of the open-source video conversion program HandBrake has been released. The update incorporates the latest version of the x264 video encoder , offers 64-bit builds with 10 percent greater performance for most Intel-based Macs, adds soft ...
Hardware
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Intel
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Just in time for the holidays, BeLight Software has released the latest version of Labels and Addresses , their tool for printing labels and envelopes. In addition to adding 22 new holiday design sets and 30 new templates, version 1.5 brings support for Aperture, the capability to design and ...
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EtherPad is a Web-based tool for simultaneous writing, in which multiple people can see keystrokes as other people type them. It's now about to disappear after the acquisition by Google of AppJet, the firm that developed and supports EtherPad, and its developers.
EtherPad will continue to ...
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Ars Technica reports that Amazon's Kindle 2 is automatically receiving a firmware update (as long as you have its wireless service on) that enables native PDF viewing, complete with rotation for a wide-screen viewing option. It's still not a good PDF reader (no bookmarks or links honored), but ...
Gadgets
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Amazon
Mac
JNSoftware has released a significant maintenance update to the phone dialing utility Dialectic . The latest version adds incoming call detection for the iPhone, a Services workflow item to enable contextual menu dialing for Snow Leopard users, a Google Quick Search plugin, preferences for the ...
Online
If you use the Electric Sheep screensaver, please download this important update, which fixes a bug that caused the previous version to hammer the sheep download server. The update also adds information of sheep playcount when you press F4, timestamps log entries, and makes it possible for you ...
Hardware
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Mac
Apple has released the latest version of Java SE 6 (1.6.0_17) for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard , improving its reliability and security. The update supersedes all prior Java for Mac OS X updates.
The update addresses multiple security vulnerabilities that could enable an untrusted Java applet ...
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Apple
Apple has released the latest versions of J2SE 5.0 (1.5.0_22) and Java SE 6 (1.6.0_17) for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard , improving their reliability and security. The update supersedes all prior Java for Mac OS X updates.
The update addresses multiple security vulnerabilities that could enable an ...
