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Apple OS X Lion Now In Mac App Store

Jul

2011

Apple has today made available for sale its latest OS X operating system offering, Lion. Apple states that over 250 new features have been added to Lion version 10.7, which include visual and performance updates to many existing programs, along with numerous new features. Lion is only available for purchase and download via the Mac ...

Firefox 4 Passes Fifty Million Downloads In Ten Days

Apr

2011

Firefox 4, released on March 22 2011, has passed 50 million downloads already. Very impressive stats indeed. At the time of writing, Firefox has an estimated 20+% market share globally, second only to Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can easily check out the current amount of Firefox 4 downloads via an interactive site at glow.mozilla.org

Intel Identifies 6 Series Chipset Design Error

Feb

2011

Chip maker Intel has found a design fault with their 6 Series Chipsets. Intel has stoppeed shipping the affected product lines and has implemented a fix in their design. Numerous vendors who have sold motherboards containing the Intel 6 Series Chipset, have issued product recalls. See the following Intel article to see if you may ...

Apple Releases iTunes 10.1.2

Jan

2011

Apple has released version 10.1.2 of iTunes. iTunes 10.1.2 provides a number of important stability and performance improvements. Read more on the Apple site. support.apple.com/kb/DL1103

Firefox 4 Beta 9 Faster And Feature Rich

Jan

2011

Want to see what the folks from Mozilla have been busy with? Then download and install Firefox 4 Beta 9. This major version update includes considerable performance and technology enhancements which Mozilla claims will make the whole browsing experience faster. Speed improvements include browser startup time, page load time, and improved speed of numerous web ...

Mac App Store Now Open

Jan

2011

Apple has opened their long awaited Mac App Store. The Mac App Store is a similar concept to the App Store built into iTunes, but the software that’s available to download and install, is only for your Mac. Like the App Store in iTunes, both free and software requiring payment is available. To add the ...

Mac OS X 10.6.6 Update Released

Jan

2011

Apple has released an update to OS X to bring the version to 10.6.6. Numerous updates and bug fixes are included but the major update here seems to be the addition of support for the Mac App Store. Here is Apple’s full write-up for the OS X 10.6.6 update. You can update via the Apple ...

Skype CIO Lars Rabbe Details Recent Outage

Dec

2010

Last weeks 24 hour service outage of popular voice and video chat software provider Skype left many users wondering what had occurred. Lars Rabbe, CIO of Skype, describes in great detail what caused the day long problem, and what Skype engineers will do in future to limit such outages from occurring. Follow this link to ...

WordPress 3.0.4 Critical Security Update

Dec

2010

WordPress users are advised to install a critical patch which addresses a XSS vulnerability in the KSES library. Updating only takes seconds to do in your WordPress dashboard. Follow this link for the official WordPress write-up. WordPress 3.0.4 Important Security Update

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Now Released

Dec

2010

Microsoft has released an update to its free security product, Security Essentials. To date, Microsoft hasn’t published much information as to what it has improved in this version. This new version will work on Windows XP, Vista & 7. Click here to read about, and download the new version.