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Review: Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm

The space opera that is StarCraft continues in fine style. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, the latest installment in Blizzard’s epic StarCraft real-time strategy series, has been out for a while now, reflects a fairly major overhaul in its unit progression, achievement and multiplayer systems. Picking up where StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty left […]

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Adobe releases Flash Player 10.2.152.21 update

You may love or hate Flash Player, but updated versions are never a bad thing. Late Tuesday, Adobe released Flash Player 10.2.1521 for Mac OS X, a 7.6 megabyte download via MacUpdate. The new version functions essentially as a pre-release to version 10.2 and includes the following fixes and changes: – General stability fixes. – […]

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Adobe releases Flash Player 10.1.82.76 for Mac, adds hardware acceleration for H.264 content

In spite of the constant back and forth between Apple and Adobe, a new version of Flash Player for Mac has shipped that officially supports hardware acceleration for H.264 video content. Per AppleInsider, the update 10.1.82.76 was announced Tuesday by Adobe product manager Thibault Imbert on his blog. The feature, code-named “Gala,” had been announced […]

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Apple quietly releases updated 13″ MacBook

Confirming yesterday’s post, Apple quietly released a refreshed MacBook notebook, the new model incorporating a new faster 2.4GHz processor, and NVIDIA GeForce 320m graphics processor. These changes bring it into line with recently released MacBook Pro model. Apple is claiming that the new MacBook provides 80% faster performance, largely due to the the improved graphics […]

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Apple opens up video decoding APIs to Adobe, other developers

Sometimes a well-publicized conflict between two large companies can actually lead to something good. Per Macworld, Apple has released information on how third-party developers can take advantage of hardware acceleration for graphics, a previously unavailable feature that’s been blamed for Flash’s poor performance on the Mac platform. Traditionally, Flash hasn’t performed nearly as well on […]