On Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 6.6 of CocktailCocktail (Mountain Lion Edition), the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 5.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Improvements on the “Search for corrupted preference files” procedure (it now searches for corrupted […]
Tag: OS X
You can’t knock a good update. Late Wednesday, Apple released version 10.0.9 of its Final Cut Pro X video editing software. The update, a 1.64 gigabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Addresses issues resulting in green artifacts when using Sony XAVC media. – Fixes several issues related to interlaced media and retimed […]
On Tuesday, Google released version 28.0.1500.95 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 51.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Medium CVE-2013-2881: Origin bypass in frame handling. – High CVE-2013-2882: Type confusion in V8. – High CVE-2013-2883: Use-after-free in MutationObserver. – High CVE-2013-2884: Use-after-free in DOM. – High CVE-2013-2885: Use-after-free in […]
You’ve got to love a program that updates frequently. On Tuesday, Dropbox released version 2.2.12 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 31 megabyte download (via MacUpdate), which adds the following fixes and changes: – Fix an issue that could cause high CPU usage during reindex. – Fix an […]
Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 2.0.8. The new version, a 41.9 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Fixes some regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC. – Fixes numerous crashes and dangerous […]