VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.1.20. The new version, a 101.3 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – VMM: fixed a crash under rare circumstances for VMs running without hardware virtualization. – VMM: fixed a code analysis bug for certain displacement instructions for VMs […]
On Tuesday, software developer eidac released version 2.4 of its smcFanControl utility, a free program that allows users to adjust the minimum fan speed of their Intel-based Macs, thereby allowing the unit to potentially run cooler. The new version, a 768 kilobyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Support for OS X 10.8 […]
This could be interesting. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent that allows users to skip unwanted audio and video broadcast segments such as commercials with on-device content like songs, podcasts or other media, possibly hinting at technology headed to the battle for the living room. Apple’s […]
When the supplies get short, the new stuff’s en route. Or that’s the more hopeful school of thought when it comes to being unable to buy the cool thing that you want. Per 9to5Mac, a number of retailers are running out of stock of the iPod nano. In the US these include major chains like […]
Ok, this is going to require a fix. Following a discovery last week wherein Pod2G uncovered a SMS flaw in iOS that lets someone send a spoofed SMS (in this scenario, the SMS would appear to be from a trusted source, but the response would actually be sent to someone else), the cool cats at […]