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Google Chrome updated to 21.0.1180.81

You can’t knock frequent updates. On Friday, Google released a beta of version 21.0.1180.81 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 43.8 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Duplex Printing defaults to Yes, which prints extra pages even for a 1 page print out (Issue 138312). – Print preview takes forever […]

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China Unicom may break away from contract sales of iPhone, cites high overhead costs

Sometimes contracts don’t work as well as you’d like them to. Per DigiTimes, China’s Unicom wireless carrier is struggling to benefit from its investment in contract sales of Apple’s latest iPhone models and is reportedly considering a move that would do away with traditional pricing discounts on the handset for customers willing to sign two-year […]

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Motion Picture Experts Group releases H.265 draft standard, offers Web-based video at twice the quality, half the data size

If you think Web-based video is impressive now, wait a bit. Per AppleInsider, the Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data rate as today’s MPEG-4 H.264 standard. The new H.265 […]

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Apple seeds third Mac OS X 10.7.5 beta to developer community

The nice thing about betas, it means they’re a bit closer to getting somewhere. Per MacNN, Apple is seeding a third developer beta of OS X 10.7.5 to developers. The code is listed as build 11G36, and as before, has no known issues. Apple is also holding steady on testing focus, asking developers to look […]

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Cocktail updated to 6.0.2

On Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 6.0.2 of CocktailCocktail (Lion Edition), the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 2.2 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Addresses an issue in which Cocktail could not force empty the Trash. – Addresses an […]