dls computers » News

Apple OS X Lion Now In Mac App Store

David — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:58:42 +0000

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 App Store, which means, you have to already have Snow Leopard installed. The download is rather hefty at 3.49Gb, but the price is a light $31.99.

Apple has provided the following pages on their website, which outline Lion in detail.

apple.com/au/macosx/whats-new/
apple.com/au/macosx/whats-new/features.html

Long time tech journalist Paul Thurrott has written the following in depth review of Lion, and is well worth a read. This article outlines many of Lion’s new features.

Firefox 4 Passes Fifty Million Downloads In Ten Days

David — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:13:11 +0000

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

David — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:11:42 +0000

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 be affected by this.

www3.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-032263.htm

Apple Releases iTunes 10.1.2

David — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:52:22 +0000

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

David — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:29:32 +0000

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 applications and games.

Read the following articles for an in depth report on the vast list of changes in this latest release.

hacks.mozilla.org/2011/01/firefox-4-beta-9-a-huge-pile-of-awesome

blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/01/14/the-next-major-version-of-firefox-is-ready-to-test

Mac App Store Now Open

David — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:33:03 +0000

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 App Store functionality to your Mac, a free software download is available for Mac computers that are running Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6 or later.

The Mac App store should make searching for, installing new software, or updating your existing software a much simpler task.

Mac OS X 10.6.6 Update Released

David — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:14:23 +0000

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 Menu > Software Update. If you have multiple computers, you may prefer to download the 143.59 Mb update from the Apple support site to one computer, and then deploy to your others.

Skype CIO Lars Rabbe Details Recent Outage

David — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:10:55 +0000

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 read the complete article.

blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html

WordPress 3.0.4 Critical Security Update

David — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:37:58 +0000

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

David — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:11:13 +0000

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.