Tag archive: Mac OS

Adobe has released the latest update for Flash Player, version 10.3. The update works with all Flash-enabled platforms, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Android, with support for the most recent 3.1 update to Honeycomb. You can nab the download on the web at Adobe.com or through Android Market on your mobile device. The latest Flash update is all about squashing bugs and making things work more smoothly. On the Android side, that means NEON… Read More

It’s easy to get lured into a false sense of security as a Mac user – after all, Apple's personal computers are paraded about as virus immune machines.  Of course that isn’t a catch-all, and a new report from the Intego Mac Security Blog says there is new malware targeting Mac computers. Apple Discussion forums are also rife with complaints of a program called MacDefender (not to be confused with this site). The trojan appears to be… Read More

Apple announced today that the 2011 World Wide Developers Conference is set to kick off on June 6 at San Francisco's Moscone West convention center. During the five-day conference, Apple says it will unveil “the future of iOS and Mac OS.” In addition to those two big software announcements, Apple says the conference will debut “new kinds of apps that developers can build using Apple’s advanced frameworks, as well as… Read More

It’s only fitting that the day Apple officially announces something, a new rumor begins. This time, we’re hearing the new MacBook Pros and iMacs will be heading to shelves in early 2011, alongside the soon-to-be launched Mac App Store. DigiTimes is reporting that “sources from upstream component makers” say the Apple computers will be refreshed in the coming year and also project that OS X Lion will be included in the upgraded models. It’s still… Read More

Former Google employee and Gmail creator Paul Buchheit apparently doesn’t think much of the recent Chrome launch. On his FriendFeed account, Buchheit recently posted “Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year (or “merged” with Android).” And that isn't all he had to say about his doubts. “ChromeOS has no purpose that isn’t better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display). I was thinking, ‘is this too… Read More

Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit today announced some details of its next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac—and the big surprise is that Microsoft is committing to shipping a version of Outlook for the Macintosh. The Mac version of Outlook will replace the existing Entourage email and communication application that's been part of Microsoft Office for several years; although Entourage has long features some… Read More

Inexpensive, low-powered netbook computers might be all the rage as secondary and add-on computers…and now they're spawning their own classes of accessories. Newton Peripherals has introduced a bundled version of its MoGo Presenter Mouse specifically for netbook computers: the kit includes a Mogo Bluetooth Adapter, charging cable, and a low-profile, removable docking holster so make transporting the mouse simple and painless.… Read More

The annual Black Hat security conference has gotten underway in Las Vegas, and, as promised, security researchers have detailed a technique that, in theory, could enable attackers to take over Apple's popular iPhone using nothing by SMS messages which would be invisible to the iPhone's owner. Apple has also took another hit on the chin with the demonstration of a proof-of-concept rootkit for Apple's Mac OS X operating… Read More

These days it can seem like every netbook and notebook computer on earth comes with some sort of Webcam, but most desktop systems still don't include that bit of hardware—which, for some people, represents a bit of cost savings but, if you want to do video chat or conferencing, it represents a major hassle. As such, the market for add-on Webcams is still going strong, and peripheral and accessory maker Logitech launched a major… Read More

T-Mobile and Canada's Research in Motion have announced the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, the latest salvo in the company's addicting portable communications offerings. Like previous entries in the Curve line, the 8520 will sport consumer-oriented features like Facebook and MySpace integration, email, and mobile multimedia and entertainment. And unlike any previous BlackBerry, the Curve 8520 will ship with the long-delayed… Read More

Storage vendor Verbatim is continuing to show it's serious about the hard drive business, today announcing its new SureFire line of external hard disk drives in 250, 320, and 500 GB capacities. The drives pack not only a USB 2.0 port but also a high-performance FireWire 800 port for transfer rates of up to 800 MB/s…something sure to appeal to MacBook Pro owners tired of poking along at USB 2.0 or FireWire 400 bandwidths. The… Read More

Although USB thumb drives have become the floppy disks of the 21st century, many of them suffer from pretty fatal flaws: most of the time, anybody with a USB port can tap into any data you've stored on a flash drive. So government, military, and even some enterprise and corporate users—not to mention superspies—angle for something better. IronKey aims to deliver with its new S200 USB flash drive, which the company claims… Read More

Microsoft has formally released Silverlight 3, the latest version of its interactive technology which is often described as the company's direct competitor to Adobe Flash, but might be better viewed as a development platform that also competes with the likes of Adobe Air, JavaFX, and even efforts like Google Gears. Silverlight 3 beefs up the technology's support for streaming high-definition video by offering direct support for… Read More

Speaking at the Allen & Company media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt indicated that Google's newly-announced Chrome OS means that he will have to speak with Apple about how his role on the Apple Board of Directors might change. Google's Chrome OS will presumably be in direct competition with Apple's own Mac OS X operating system products. The position not only creates… Read More

The Mozilla Corporation has released Firefox 3.5, the latest version of its free open source Web browser. And although Firefox 3.5′s new features and capabilities won't be any surprise to anyone who's been participating in the beta process, for the general Web-using public the put Firefox right back in the thick of things with the likes of Apple's Safari and Google Chrome…and, of course, with the explicit… Read More