Tag Archives: OsX

Apple slips out new OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion beta, leaves 2007 MacBook Pro in a momentary lurch

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Apple looks to be stepping up the frequency of OS X Mountain Lion beta updates after initially keeping the pace slow and steady: it just posted a new, unceremoniously titled 12A206J build for developers. What the update fixes in the Developer Preview…


OS X Lion update accidentally outs user passwords in plain text, stumbles over FileVault

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Are you an avid user of OS X’s FileVault encryption and running a recently updated version of Lion? It may be time to consider changing your passwords. According to security researcher David Emry, users who used FileVault prior to upgrading to 10.7.3…


Amazon outs Cloud Drive desktop app for Windows and Mac, allows easy access to your digital wares

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If you’ve been storing part of your digital library on Amazon’s Cloud Drive, access to your goods just got easier. The outfit has released a desktop app for both Mac and Windows machines enabling uploads and downloads with minimal effort. For starter…


Dropbox adds automatic photo uploads for Windows and Mac, up to 3GB just for using it

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Dropbox isn’t short of aficionados, but it’s undoubtedly lost some of its gleam since Google drove the cloud war into a frenzy. In response, Dropbox’s devs have been at the squat rack pumping up their multimedia credentials, recently adding auto phot…


Cablevision’s Optimum Online live TV streaming now available on Windows and Mac

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It’s been a little over a year since Cablevision launched Optimum for iPad with live streaming of all of its channels to the tablet, and now subscribers can experience the same thing on their computer with the Optimum for Laptops app. Available for M…


Cablevision’s Optimum Online live TV streaming now available on Windows and Mac

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It’s been a little over a year since Cablevision launched Optimum for iPad with live streaming of all of its channels to the tablet, and now subscribers can experience the same thing on their computer with the Optimum for Laptops app. Available for M…


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…


Ask Engadget: best heavy-duty cloud-storage solution?

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We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from is from is from Joe, who needs to backup half a terabyte of data to the cloud, as you do. If y…


Apple issues Flashback removal tool for 10.7 Lion systems not running Java

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The Flashback OS X trojan continues to cast a rainy shadow over Mac owners’ sense of security, and even though a fix has been released, this was only for what Apple considered “the most common variants.” Users of Lion, who don’t have Java installed, w…


Apple releases fix for Flashback malware

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It promised earlier this week that a fix was coming, and Apple has now delivered a Java security update that is says removes “the most common variants of the Flashback malware.” That update also reconfigures the Java web plug-in to disable the automat…