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Apple releases OS X 10.8.3 build 12D44 to developer community

The OS X 10.8.3 seeds are coming a bit more quickly these days. Which is never a bad sign. Late Thursday, Apple seeded OS X 10.8.3 build 12D44 to developers, with the new version coming just two days after the previous 12D43 build was released according to AppleInsider. It is not clear what changes have […]

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Adobe releases Photoshop CS 6 13.0.3 update

It took a little while, but this could be nifty. On Thursday, Adobe released version 13.0.3 of its Photoshop CS6 image editing program. The new version, a 269.9 megabyte download (via MacUpdate), offers the following fix: – Enables support for new HiDPI displays on the Macintosh platform for a dramatic improvement in image fidelity and […]

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Apple patents point to effort to reduce noise on MacBook Pro fan modules

You know the fans on your MacBook Pro? They’re about to get quieter. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a trio of patent applications discovered on Thursday reveal how the asymmetric fan blade spacing used in the newest MacBook Pro with Retina display models quiet the spinning impeller without sacrificing performance. The three […]

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SpamSieve updated to 2.9.6

You can’t knock a useful chunk of shareware. Michael Tsai’s must-have shareware program, SpamSieve, has just been updated to version 2.9.6. The new version, a 10.7 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10.8.2 that could cause spam operations in Postbox to be very slow. […]

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Carbon Copy Cloner updated to 3.5.2

On Saturday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, reached version 3.5.2. The new version, an 8.6 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Added support for sending notifications to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center. Growl support will continue to be supported for Snow Leopard and Lion, but […]