Late Thursday, Parallels released version 8.0.18483 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software. The new update, a 320 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Better compatibility with new iMacs. – Create Boot Camp virtual machines on new iMacs with 3 TB hard drives. – Create virtual machines from the Boot Camp partition with […]
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Never doubt the power of competition in the cloud-based market space. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Amazon has introduced file syncing to its Cloud Drive app for OS X, which essentially makes Cloud Drive Amazon’s version of Dropbox. Like Dropbox, the app allows files put into the Cloud Drive folder to be available on any […]
And just a few years ago, they were at version 3.0… On Tuesday, Mozilla.org released version 20.0 of its Firefox web browser. The new version, a 38.3 megabyte download and adds the following fixes and changes: New: – Security fixes. – Per-window Private Browsing. – New download experience. – Ability to close hanging plug-ins, without […]
You can’t knock a worthwhile update. On Tuesday, Google released version 26.0.1410.43 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 48.8 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – “Ask Google for suggestions” spell checking feature improvements (e.g. grammar and homonym checking). – Desktop shortcuts for multiple users (profiles) on Windows. – Asynchronous DNS […]
With any luck, the Yontoo trojan won’t be around on the Mac OS X platform for long. Per the Intego Security Blog and MacRumors, shortly after news emerged of a new adware trojan targeting OS X web browsers, Apple updated its malware and adware detections list to block Yontoo. The company has apparently updated its […]