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  • Google Chrome updated to 27.0.1453.93

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    You can’t knock an application that’s updated this frequently.

    On Wednesday, Google released version 27.0.1453.93 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 49.8 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes:
    – Web pages load 5% faster on average

    – Chrome.syncFileSystem API

    – Improved ranking of predictions, improved spell correction, and numerous fundamental improvements for Omnibox predictions. Please see the Help Center for more information on our updated policies.

    Security fixes:
    – [235638] High CVE-2013-2837: Use-after-free in SVG.

    – [235311] Medium CVE-2013-2838: Out-of-bounds read in v8.

    – [230176] High CVE-2013-2839: Bad cast in clipboard handling.

    – [230117] High CVE-2013-2840: Use-after-free in media loader.

    – [227350] High CVE-2013-2841: Use-after-free in Pepper resource handling.

    – [226696] High CVE-2013-2842: Use-after-free in widget handling.

    – [222000] High CVE-2013-2843: Use-after-free in speech handling.

    – [196393] High CVE-2013-2844: Use-after-free in style resolution.

    – [188092] [179522] [222136] [188092] High CVE-2013-2845: Memory safety issues in Web Audio.

    – [177620] High CVE-2013-2846: Use-after-free in media loader.

    – [176692] High CVE-2013-2847: Use-after-free race condition with workers.

    – [176137] Medium CVE-2013-2848: Possible data extraction with XSS Auditor.

    – [171392] Low CVE-2013-2849: Possible XSS with drag+drop or copy+paste.

    Google Chrome 27.0.1453.93 requires an Intel-based Mac with Mac OS X 10.6 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.

  • Roxio releases Toast Titanium 11.1 build 1072 update

    Maybe THIS is the final version of Toast Titanium 11.1.

    Over the weekend, Roxio released a revised version of the Toast Titanium 11.1 update.

    Per the release notes, the new build (1072) was released. The new version, a 97.7 megabyte download (available via MacUpdate), offers the following fixes and changes:
    – Resolves crash issue encountered by some users in Audio projects.

    – Resolves issue with inconsistent burn speeds.

    – Resolves error that occured with Fit-to-DVD option enabled.

    – Resolves issue where having a low-resolution image at the start of a video project would result in poor video quality.

    – Resolves issue that would result in some set-top Blu-ray players being unable to correctly seek back or forward within a title.

    – AVCHD view in Media Browser will no longer keep jumping to top while content is being indexed.

    – Audio CD track list can now be copied to clipboard.

    – Audio preview controls now allow rewind and fast-forward within a single track.

    Toast Titanium 11.1 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run and retails for US$99.99.

    If you’ve tried the new update and noticed any changes, please let us know in the comments.

  • VirtualBox updated to 4.2.0

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    VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.2.0. The new version, a 96.6 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes:

    New Features:
    – Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes.

    – GUI: VM groups (bug #288).

    – GUI: expert mode for wizards.

    – GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime.

    – Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805).

    – Resource control: added support for limiting network IO bandwidth; see the manual for more information (bug #3653).

    – Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux, OS X and Solaris; see the manual for more information (bug #950).

    – Added experimental support for Drag’n’drop from the host to Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is planned. (bug #81).

    – Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts.

    – Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API documentation for more information.

    In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
    – Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings on Mountain Lion.

    – VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression, bug #9897).

    – VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests).

    – VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using nested paging.

    – VMM: added support for FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer).

    – VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x (gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941).

    – VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases).

    – VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005).

    – VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled.

    – VMM: page fusion fixes.

    – GUI: network operations manager.

    – GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561).

    – GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list.

    – GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI.

    – GUI: allow reset, shutdown and power off from the Manager window.

    – GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for guests.

    – GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently used ISO images.

    – GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a separator character in its name (bug #6541).

    – GUI: don’t crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open (bug #9973).

    – GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts (bug #9864).

    – GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don’t refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting immediately.

    – Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491).

    – Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs (see the manual for more information). It can be enabled at any time using the VM menu.

    – Settings: sanitize the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549).

    – Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted.

    – NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286).

    – NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801).

    – E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429).

    – Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode.

    – Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players.

    – Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images.

    – Storage: added support for QED images.

    – Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly support for v2 images).

    – Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images.

    – USB: don’t crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only).

    – Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12.

    – Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver.

    – Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a VirtualBox update.

    – Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808).

    VirtualBox 4.2.0 is available for free and requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later and an Intel-based Mac to install and run.

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

  • VirtualBox updated to 4.1.20

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    VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.1.20. The new version, a 101.3 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes:

    – VMM: fixed a crash under rare circumstances for VMs running without hardware virtualization.

    – VMM: fixed a code analysis bug for certain displacement instructions for VMs running without hardware virtualization.

    – VMM: fixed an interpretion bug for TPR read instructions under rare conditions (AMD-V only).

    – Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9604, #10491).

    – VBoxSVC: be more tolerant against environment variables with strange encodings (bug #8780).

    – VGA: fixed wrong access check which might cause a crash under certain conditions.

    – NAT: final fix for crashes under rare conditions (bug #10513).

    – Virtio-net: fixed the problem with receiving of GSO packets in Windows XP guests causing packet loss in host-to-VM transfers.

    – HPET: several fixes (bugs #10170, #10306).

    – Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs.

    – BIOS: the PCI BIOS was not properly detected with the chipset type set to ICH9 (bugs #9301, #10327).

    – Mac OS X hosts: adaptions to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

    – Linux Installer: fixes for Gentoo Linux (bug #10642).

    – Linux guests: fixed mouse integration on Fedora 17 guests (bug #2306).

    – Linux Additions: compile fixes for RHEL/CentOS 6.3 (bug #10756).

    – Linux Additions: compile fixes for Linux 3.5-rc1 and Linux 3.6-rc1 (bug #10709).

    – Solaris host: fixed a guru meditation while allocating large pages (bug #10600).

    – Solaris host: fixed possible kernel panics while freeing memory.

    – Solaris Installer: fixed missing icon for menu and desktop shortcuts.

    VirtualBox 4.1.20 is available for free and requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later and an Intel-based Mac to install and run.

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