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Apple releases Final Cut Pro X 10.0.7 update

A useful update’s a useful update. Late Thursday, Apple released version 10.0.7 of its Final Cut Pro X video editing software. The update, a 1.41 gigabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – The Letterbox effect “Offset” slider has been restored. – Fixes an issue when creating a single layer DVD. – Fixes an […]

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard install DVDs surface in Apple online store, available for $19.99

In as much as it’s useful to keep operating systems on thumb drives and recovery partitions, there are times where you miss having an emergency DVD on hand. That being said, this should be useful. Discovered by French web site MacGeneration and the mighty Mac Observer, Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard has returned […]

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Revised DMCA allows for unlocking of handsets, other exemptions

There’s exceptions to every rule and some of them get pretty interesting. Per the cool cats at Ars Technica, the Digital Millennium Copyright makes it illegal to “circumvent” digital rights management schemes. But when Congress passed the DMCA in 1998, it gave the Librarian of Congress the power to grant exemptions. The latest batch of […]

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HandBrake updated to 0.9.8

Handbrake, Eric Petit’s incredibly useful open-source DVD ripping/conversion utility, has been updated to version 0.9.8. The new version, a 7.1 megabyte download, offers a list of fixes and changes available at this changelog. HandBrake 0.9.8 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later to install and run. If you’ve tried the new […]

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HandBrake updated to 0.9.7

Handbrake, Eric Petit’s incredibly useful open-source DVD ripping/conversion utility, has been updated to version 0.9.7. The new version, a 7.1 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: Supported Sources: – VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted — CSS is not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), […]