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Intuit to revise Quicken 2007, add Lion compatibility in “early 2012”

You either love or hate Quicken, but you’ve got to admit it’s useful. Per AppleInsider, Intuit announced to customers on Thursday that it plans to release a “re-engineered” version of Quicken for Mac 2007 that will be compatible with the latest version of Apple’s Mac operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion. A note from Aaron […]

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Mozilla releases Firefox 9.0.1 update

On Thursday, Mozilla.org released version 9.0.1 of its Firefox web browser. The new version stands as a 30.8 megabyte download (via MacUpdate) and adds the following fixes and changes: – Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance. – Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion. – Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS […]

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Apple exploring fuel cell technologies for future notebook power sources

It’s the patents that make life interesting. Per two articles (1, 2) at Free Patents Online, Apple is apparently exploring ways to power its notebooks via fuel cells. “Our country’s continuing reliance on fossil fuels has forced our government to maintain complicated political and military relationships with unstable governments in the Middle East, and has […]

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Parallels Desktop updated to 7.0.15052

On Thursday, Parallels released version 7.0.15052 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software. The new update, a 304 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Better compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7.2 Launchpad. – Improves network stability. – Addresses the issue of Linux virtual machine not resuming upon waking the Mac from Sleep mode. […]

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Google Voice updated, includes full Sprint network integration

This could be useful Per Electronista, Google on Wednesday quietly rolled an update to its Google Voice app for iOS with a major help to Sprint users. The app now lets iPhone owners on Sprint take full advantage of Google Voice integration on the network. All Google Voice calls on Sprint now get relayed to […]