Sorry for the lack of updates yesterday, I was flying across the country and the plane lacked Wi-Fi. During the flight, “The Vow” with Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams happened to be the in-flight movie, should you choose to plug in headphones and listen to it. During this time, I desperately wanted there to be a director’s cut where the characters are slathered in salmon juice and attacked by irate grizzly bears in every scene…

Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser, just reached version 19.0.1084.52 for the Mac. The new version, a 38.6 megabyte download, offers the following changes:

- [117409] High CVE-2011-3103: Crashes in v8 garbage collection. Credit to the Chromium development community (Brett Wilson).

- [118018] Medium CVE-2011-3104: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

- [$1000] [120912] High CVE-2011-3105: Use-after-free in first-letter handling. Credit to miaubiz.

- [122654] Critical CVE-2011-3106: Browser memory corruption with websockets over SSL. Credit to the Chromium development community (Dharani Govindan).

- [124625] High CVE-2011-3107: Crashes in the plug-in JavaScript bindings. Credit to the Chromium development community (Dharani Govindan).

- [$1337] [125159] Critical CVE-2011-3108: Use-after-free in browser cache. Credit to “efbiaiinzinz”.

- [Linux only] [$1000] [126296] High CVE-2011-3109: Bad cast in GTK UI. Credit to Micha Bartholomé.

- [126337] [126343] [126378] [127349] [127819] [127868] High CVE-2011-3110: Out of bounds writes in PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team.

- [$500] [126414] Medium CVE-2011-3111: Invalid read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.

- [127331] High CVE-2011-3112: Use-after-free with invalid encrypted PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team.

- [127883] High CVE-2011-3113: Invalid cast with colorspace handling in PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team.

- [128014] High CVE-2011-3114: Buffer overflows with PDF functions. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (scarybeasts).

- [$1000] [128018] High CVE-2011-3115: Type corruption in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.

Google Chrome 19.0.1084.52 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.

If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.

CrossOver, the popular emulation program from CodeWeavers, has been updated to version 11.1.0. The new version, which is available as a demo, offers the following fixes and changes:

New Game Support:
- Support for Diablo III.

Application Enhancements:
- Smoother installation process for some versions of Microsoft Office.

- Printing fix for Project 2007.

- Fixed an error saving certain documents in Excel 2010.

CrossOver Enhancements:
- Printing how honours duplex settings.

- Printing fixes to non-letter sized paper.

- Improvements to Spanish-language translations.

- Fixed an error where IE6 in a Win98 bottle would complain it was not registered.

- Fixed an error which would cause CrossOver’s ‘Welcome’ screen not to appear in some situations on Mac OS X Lion.

- Fixed a problem which caused Windows applications to have slightly (four) fewer graphics shaders available than they could have, which could produce graphics glitches in games.

CrossOver 11.1.0 retails for US$59.95 and requires Mac OS X 10.5 and or later and an Intel-based Mac to install and run.

If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.

High version numbers be damned, a new version of Google Chrome just hit and you might want to grab it.

Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser, just reached version 19.0.1084.46 for the Mac. The new version, a 38.6 megabyte download, offers the following changes:

- Adds the ability for tabs to be synced across multiple devices (feature will be rolling out over the coming weeks).

Google Chrome 19.0.1084.46 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.

If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.

On Wednesday, software company Delicious Monster released version 2.7.8 of the shareware favorite, Delicious Library. Delicious Monster allows Macs with webcams to scan the bar codes of any book, movie, music CD or video game, then creates an archive based on background information from the Internet. Additional features help keep the library organized and reseller’s tools allow for items to be quickly posted for sale online.

The new version, a 16.6 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes:

- Fixed memory use on iTunes shelves (which could occasionally exhaust memory, slow machine, and then crash).

- Fixed incorrect shortcut keys shown in item action menu.

- Added extra mappings between Delicious Library’s item types and Amazon’s product types. For example, manually adding “Tools” in Germany now works.

Delicious Library 2.7.8 retails for US$40 and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.

Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser, just reached version 18.0.1025.168 for the Mac. The new version, a 35.4 megabyte download, offers the following changes:

- Security and bug fixes.

Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.

If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.

Mozilla.org, creators of the Firefox web browser, has just released version 12.0.1 of Thunderbird, its free e-mail client. The new program, an 34.4 megabyte download, sports the following fixes and new features:

- Fix various issues relating to new mail notifications and filtering on POP3 based accounts.

- Fixes an occasional startup crash seen in TB 12.0.

- Fixes an issue with corrrupted message bodies when using move mail.

Thunderbird 3.1.3 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.

If you’ve played with the new version and have any feedback, positive or negative, let us know.

Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser, just reached version 18.0.1025.165 for the Mac. The new version, a 35.4 megabyte download, offers the following changes:

- Fixes a top crasher on the Mac.

Google Chrome 18.0.1025.165 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.

If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.

Late Tuesday, Mozilla.org released version 12.0 of its Firefox web browser. The new version, a 32 megabyte download and adds the following fixes and changes:

- Firefox can now migrate your bookmarks, history, and cookies from Google Chrome.

- With Sync enabled, add-ons can now be synchronized across your computers.

- The CSS text-size-adjust property is now supported.

- Redesigned media controls for HTML5 video.

- The outerHTML property is now supported on HTML elements.

- View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser (see bug 482921).

- The Style Editor for CSS editing is now available to web developers.

- Web developers can now visualize a web page in 3D using the Page Inspector 3D View.

- SPDY protocol support for faster page loads is now testable.

- XMLHttpRequest now supports HTML parsing.

- Files can now be stored in IndexedDB (see bug 661877).

- Websockets has now been unprefixed.

- Firefox notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later (691662).

Firefox 12.0 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.

If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.

I think this is where an awesome montage scene of productivity/progress begins in an 80s movie. Or at least the cast involves vows to achieve a long-term goal.

Apple revealed on Tuesday that it is currently developing software to detect and remove the Flashback malware that has infected an estimated 600,000 Macs worldwide.

The company made mention of the upcoming tool in a support document regarding the malicious software, as noted by The Loop. The document also pointed users to last week’s Java update that patched the security flaw that the virus was exploiting.

“In addition to the Java vulnerability, the Flashback malware relies on computer servers hosted by the malware authors to perform many of its critical functions. Apple is working with ISPs worldwide to disable this command and control network,” the company said.

Apple also advises Macs running OS X 10.5 or earlier to disable Java in their browser preferences.

The Flashback trojan horse was first discovered last September. The malware posed as a phony Adobe Flash Player installer in order to trick users into installing it. At the time, a security first categorized the threat as “low.” The current version of Flashback used the Java vulnerability to create a botnet that could mine personal information from unsuspecting users.

Evidence of Apple’s efforts to contact ISPs surfaced earlier on Tuesday when a Russian security firm revealed that the company had targeted one of its servers as being “involved in a malicious scheme.” Dr. Web chief executive Boris Sharov said the server was “not doing any harm to users” and was being used to monitor the spread of the virus.

Sharov noted that the relative rarity of Apple security issues meant that Dr. Web hadn’t established close ties with the company. “For Microsoft, we have all the security response team’s addresses,” he said. “We don’t know the antivirus group inside Apple.”

Last week, a Dr. Web analyst claimed that 600,000 Macs around the world had been infected by the Flashback malware. 56.6 percent of those infections are reportedly located in the U.S.

Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

CrossOver, the popular emulation program from CodeWeavers, has been updated to version 11.0.3. The new version, which is available as a demo, offers the following fixes and changes:

Application Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug whereby Microsoft Office 2010, Service Pack 1 refused to install. It should now install cleanly (an update of CrossTie files from the web-site may be necessary).

- Fixed a bug where Quicken 2012 would hang adding a new online account or updating a bank account.

- Fixed a bug where PowerPoint 2010 would refuse to play slideshows. Slideshows will now work in PowerPoint 2010.

CrossOver Enhancements:
- Fixes for (we hope!) the last outstanding problems with CrossOver registration / licensing.

- Improvements to Japanese and Russian translations.

CrossOver 11.0.3 retails for US$69.95 and requires Mac OS X 10.5 and or later and an Intel-based Mac to install and run.

If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.