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Apple unveils Safari 6: goes well with your new Mountain Lion (update: Windows version absent)

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Apple’s web browser has joined its latest OS, and joins the dots on a raft of new features that we’ve been promised for a while. These include iCloud tabs and a new tab view — both Mountain Lion only — alongside a new smart search and unified searc…


Apple retires Lion from Mac App Store, there’s a new king in town

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Cue the video of 10.7 walking off into the sunset. Today is Mountain Lion day, and with the arrival of the new operating system comes the departure of its predecessor. Clicking the link for Lion will bring up a “The item you’ve requested is not curre…


Around 140,000 Apple machines still infected with Flashback malware, says Symantec

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By now, we’re all quite familiar with the Java-driven trojan that’s affected thousands of Apple’s rigs, and while the numbers seem to have drastically dropped since the first Cupertino fix, there’s still a plethora of machines carrying the bug. Accor…


OS X Mountain Lion to be download-only, USB stick going the way of the dodo

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Last time around, Apple was cognizant not everyone has broadband to download a 4GB OS, offering solace to those with slow internet with a (pricey $69) USB stick alternative. Times change though, as Cupertino’s confirmed to Pocket-lint that the recentl…


Apple drops the ‘Mac’ from OS X Lion, Mountain Lion (update: began at WWDC)

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Clearly, cats are in. But Mac, it seems, is out. Apple has quietly dropped the Mac name from its latest OS X Mountain Lion operating system, while also retroactively changing the Lion branding on its website. While it’s clearly a marketing move and wo…


Snow Leopard update wreaks havoc on Rosetta, luddite users contemplate running with Lion (update)

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Normally updates are meant to better your OS, delivering necessary tweaks and performance improvements. But this latest batch out of Cupertino’s managed to do just the opposite for users running the Lion 10.7.3 package, as it’s caused many applications…


Airport Utility 6.0 flies right into the iCloud, leaves old AirPorts behind

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The latest version of Apple’s Airport Utility software has arrived, alongside those iCloud-supporting firmware updates for the company’s network hardware, including the AirPort Extreme, the AirPort Express and Time Capsule. Unfortunately, Airport Util…


Apple updates Airport stations and Time Capsule, brings bug fixes and iCloud support

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It looks as if the Final Cut Pro X update wasn’t the only software refresh Cupertino folks had in store for us. In this particular case, it’s the company’s networking and backup goods — also known as Airport Express, Extreme and Time Capsule — that…


Apple announces free iBooks Author OS X app for publishing books to the App Store

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We’re here at Apple’s education-themed event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City, and the company’s just followed up its long-awaited textbook announcement with something unexpected: iBooks Author, a free OS X program for creating books. The in…


Firefox 9 now available for download, offers 30% JavaScript performance boost

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Mozilla released Firefox 9 on Tuesday, the latest version of its popular web browser. Firefox 9 adds several enhancements, but perhaps the most notable is its improved JavaScript engine that reportedly offers up to a 30% performance boost (in Kraken a…