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Verizon blocks employee vacations from September 21 – 30, strengthens new iPhone release date rumors

It seems a bit more likely that you’ll snag the new iPhone on September 21st. And it seems very likely that a Verizon employee won’t have that day off. Per TechCrunch, Verizon Wireless employees have reportedly had vacation days blacked out for late September, again hinting that Apple plans to launch its next-generation iPhone on […]

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Adobe releases Flash Player 11.4.402.265 update

Late Wednesday, Adobe released Flash Player 11.4.402.265 for Mac OS X, a 11.9 megabyte download via MacUpdate. The new version adds the following fixes and changes: Fixed Issues: – Netstream crashes intermittently on disconnect(3193417). – Mouse Lock feature disabled after entering Full Screen Interactive mode(3174344). – First frame of some live streaming contents freezes(3207896). – […]

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Developer cites OS X 10.8.1 beta as substantially improving Apple notebook battery life

Come the OS X 10.8.1 update, your Apple notebook’s battery life could improve significantly. Per Softpedia, substantial improvements were discovered by an unnamed developer after installing OS X 10.8.1. Previously, the developer’s MacBook was reportedly showing a battery life of 4 hours and 5 minutes after a full charge, but installing the beta software increased […]

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VirtualBox updated to 4.1.20

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 […]

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smcFanControl updated to 2.4, Mountain Lion, Retina support among changes included

On Tuesday, software developer eidac released version 2.4 of its smcFanControl utility, a free program that allows users to adjust the minimum fan speed of their Intel-based Macs, thereby allowing the unit to potentially run cooler. The new version, a 768 kilobyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Support for OS X 10.8 […]