Flash Player 10.2 Beta Improves Video Acceleration
Adobe introduced Flash Player 10.2 beta, which brings new features focused on improved video playback performance. The update promises a significant decrease in processor and memory usage.…
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Apple Releases Safari 5.0.3
Safari 5.0.3 is now available in Software Update and from Apple’s website. The new version has usability, stability, security fixes and overall performance improvements. Features: More…
iLife ’11 Announced, Available Today
Steve Jobs announced iLife ’11 today at Apple’s media event. It’s available today for free with every new Mac and $49 as an upgrade. Check it out at…
Adobe Releases 64-bit Flash Player
Adobe announced a 64-bit version of Flash Player for Mac called Square. I would install this with caution because there have been reports of it sucking even more than the 32-bit version.…
Apple Publishes Safari Extensions Gallery
Apple has published the Safari Extensions Gallery. There are many extensions available, including Twitter, New York Times Updates and My eBay Manager just to name a few. Check out the…
RUMOR: iLife ’11 Coming in August with New Mystery Application
Mac4ever is reporting that Apple will update its iLife suite on August 7th, 2010. The new version will be called iLife ’11 and is rumored to include the following new features: iLife ’11…
Apple Introduces Safari 5, Now Available for Download
Apple just released Safari 5 for both Mac and Windows. The new version features Safari Reader, even greater HTML5 support, better performance, Bing search and extensions. You can download…
RUMOR: Safari 5 Coming Monday with Extensions and Reader
One of the latest rumors going around about what will be announced at WWDC 2010 this Monday is Safari 5. It is rumored that Apple will release the next version of their browser with two…
Microsoft Releases Office 2011 for Mac Beta 3
Microsoft released beta 3 of Office 2011 for Mac today. This latest version of their productivity software will bring Microsoft’s popular email client, Outlook, to the Mac. The final…
Review: TinkerTool, The Ultimate App to Tweak Hidden OS X Features
TinkerTool, an application to tweak Mac OS X preferences, has been updated to version 4.1. I’ve been using TinkerTool for many years now. It gives you access to hidden preference settings…
Opera 10.52 for Mac Now Available
Press Release: The new Opera browser for Mac is now more than ten times faster, according to speed comparisons between Opera 10.52 and Opera 10.10. With a powerful new feature set tailored…
Opera 10.5 Beta for Mac has Been Released
Opera 10.5 is now available for download. They claim to be “the fastest browser on earth.” Computerworld has run some JavaScript benchmarks on this new version and found it is 10% faster…
Review: “Automagically” Clean Your iTunes Library with Tune Up
Do have any unidentified tracks in your iTunes collection? How about mislabeled albums? Tune Up can help. In short, Tune Up helps iTunes not suck so much. Thanks to its Wave Form…
Review: CleanMyMac
MacNN has reviewed CleanMyMac, a disk maintenance utility coded by MacPaw. The program attempts to strip unnecessary files from a Mac’s hard drive, returning space for more genuinely useful…
New Beta of Google Chrome for Mac Includes Extensions and Bookmark Sync
Press Release: As thousands of Mac fans and developers gather in San Francisco for this week’s Macworld conference, we’re particularly delighted to announce a new beta release of Chrome for…
BumpTop Mac Brings 3D to Your Desktop
BumpTop Mac is worth checking out. It brings an entirely new look to your desktop. Lots of customization and even some multitouch gestures on the MacBook and MacBook Pro’s trackpad. BumpTop…
Apple Updates Boot Camp to Support Windows 7
Not that anyone should care, but Apple came out with Boot Camp 3.1 today, which now supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7. So if you’d like to run an inferior operating system on your…
Inklet Turns Your Trackpad into a Wacom-style Tablet
Inklet requires Snow Leopard and cost $24.05. Check out the video below and their website for more…
VideoLAN Considering Options for VLC as Mac Developers Disappear
UPDATE: VideoLAN has responded. Says a possible death of VLC for Mac “greatly exaggerated.” Read more here. The future of the popular VLC media player isn’t looking good Mac users.…
KavaSoft Announces KavaTunes 4, the Web Jukebox for iTunes
KavaSoft Press Release: KavaSoft today released KavaTunes 4, the web jukebox for iTunes. KavaTunes makes websites that look and work just like iTunes. Visitors can browse, search, play and…
Apple Backups in the Cloud
I think that Apple is way overdue on offering a cloud-based backup solution. It seems obvious that they should already be including this option as part of MobileMe. I love Time Machine, and…
Safari edges Chrome in Mac speed trials
According to some tests run by Computerworld, the Chrome beta is the second fastest of the four Mac browsers tested. It is twice as fast as Mozilla’s Firefox, but can’t quite keep up with…
Chrome Beta for Mac Now Available
Google Chrome beta for Mac is now available for download. Download it by clicking here. The rumors were true, Google has released Chrome beta for Mac. It requires Mac OS X Leopard or Snow…
Quicksilver beta 57 released
Quicksilver beta 57 can be downloaded here. It fixes some of the many problem this “launcher-and-do-everthing utility” has had since the release of Snow Leopard. Macworld has an article…