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Study finds mid-2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-Fi speeds throttled by bug in OS X

Even in the event that the Wi-Fi connectivity issues on the mid-2013 MacBook Air notebooks are hardware-based, the underlying operating system software is apparently throttling potential data speeds on the new networking protocol. Per AnandTech and CNET, a series of tests by AnandTech confirms that much of the Wi-Fi speed throttling is software-based. The new […]

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Skype updated to 6.5.0.443

On Tuesday, version 6.5.0.443 of the Skype VoIP application was released. The new version, a 40 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – [Contact] Scroll bar is displayed when sending multiple contacts. – [Contact] User cannot drag & drop contacts who are already existing participants in the conversation. – [Calling] Call toolbar + […]

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OnyX updated to 2.7.0

An update’s an update. OnyX, Titanium Software’s popular freeware multifunction utility for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 2.7.0. The new version, a 19 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Deleting the Internet Cache improved. – Deleting the Fonts Cache improved. – Deleting the logs improved. – New version of […]

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Dropbox updated to 2.2.8

Don’t look a pretty decent bug fix in the mouth. On Friday, Dropbox released version 2.2.8 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 23.6 megabyte download (via MacUpdate), which adds the following fixes and changes: – New notifications badge. – Refactoring of core sync engine. – Improved memory usage. […]

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VirtualBox updated to 4.2.14

Never knock a steadily updated app. VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.2.14. The new version, a 150 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages. – VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression; bug #11674). – GUI: […]