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Mac, Rumors »

[14 May 2012 | One Comment | 390 views]

Aside from eBay and Craigslist, where can you find used a MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro? You can’t get an Apple portable at the ubiquitous game retailer yet, but you might not have to wait long until Apple notebooks …

iOS, Mac, Software »

[12 May 2012 | 3 Comments | 346 views]

When Microsoft closed on Skype more than a few people assumed would Redmond, sooner or later, wreck the market-leading IM, chat and VOIP app into the ground. Personally, I don’t think there was much left to ruin. Folks overseas aren’t …

Deals, Mac »

[11 May 2012 | One Comment | 254 views]

Want a Mac portable and looking for choice? Then you need to take a serious look at the available Apple Certified Factory Refurbished MacBook Pros — there are literally dozens of current and previous generation models in stock and the …

Mac, Software »

[10 May 2012 | One Comment | 617 views]

Competition is good and open source software is one of the driving forces of innovation on the Mac. Unfortunately, GIMP for the fairer platform was and still is a very compromised product — because it requires X11 to run, the …

Mac, Software »

[10 May 2012 | One Comment | 385 views]

One of the reasons I prefer Lion Cache Cleaner over other products is that Northern Softworks is “johnny on the spot” with updates whenever Apple delivers new code. On Wednesday afternoon, Apple shipped OS X 10.7.4 and later that evening …

Mac, Security, Software »

[9 May 2012 | 4 Comments | 776 views]

Although Apple has gotten grief for being slow to issue patches for security vulnerabilities, the biggest problem facing users is their near steadfast refusal to install the available updates. With Safari 5.1.7, Apple’s taking a proactive approach by disabling old …

Mac, Software »

[9 May 2012 | 3 Comments | 1,215 views]

The FileVault password vulnerability that recently attracted headlines? Yeah, that and a few other security issues have been fixed, as well as a number of bugs in this latest Mac operating system update. There is a fresh version of Safari …

Games, Mac »

[9 May 2012 | No Comment | 300 views]

For Mac gamers, Marathon and its two sequels were the gateway drugs. However, the PC/DOS crowd generally looks back to Wolfenstein 3D as the original first person shooter and this year marks that title’s 20th anniversary. In celebration thereof, iD …

Mac, Software »

[9 May 2012 | 2 Comments | 416 views]

Somewhere around 9 o’clock most evenings you will find me in my La-Z-Boy — a re-apolstered ’50s original that weighs about a quarter ton — kicked back and tasting news on my iPad. My go to apps are Zite, Pulse …

Mac, Security, Software »

[8 May 2012 | 5 Comments | 602 views]

Our friends in Redmond have been scrambling to patch a series of security and bug issues. This time around Microsoft is hoping to wrangle a memory issue that can result in malicious code running on your Mac, which most definitely …