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Apple releases AirPods Max firmware version 3C39, works to address battery drain issues with update

If you snagged Apple’s AirPods Max wireless headphones, this may help. Apple on Tuesday released version 3C39 of its AirPods Max firmware. The update is thought to address battery drain issues reported by some customers and replaces firmware version 3C16, which originally shipped with the AirPods Max units. Unlike other Apple software updates, there isn’t […]

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Apple posts modified version of macOS Catalina Supplemental Update

Apparently there were a few bugs in the macOS Catalina Supplemental Update, which was released on October 15th, that still needed to be squished. Apple has released a modified and re-uploaded version of the update as of Monday afternoon, having reissued it for reasons unknown. Apple says that beyond fixes for an iCloud Login problem, […]

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Apple releases AirPort Base Station 7.8.1 firmware for 802.11n AirPort Extreme, Express, and Time Capsule units

Apple may have stopped making its AirPort wireless routers, but has just released a new firmware update for its 802.11n AirPort Extreme as well as its sibling Express and Time Capsule models. The company has released the following notes for firmware update version 7.8.1, which was released late last week: Firmware update 7.8.1 improves the […]

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iCloud for Windows upgrade apparently blocked under Windows 10 version 1809 build

If you’ve been using iCloud on your Windows 10 partition, you’re not going to like this. Microsoft is apparently preventing users of Apple’s iCloud for Windows tool from updating Windows 10 to the latest build, the update offering a new warning for version 1809 of the Microsoft operating system advising the iCloud software is not […]

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Shellshock fix posted for Mac OS X 10.4 to Mac OS X 10.6.8 operating systems

This suggestion came in over the weekend from one Larry Macy, Ph.D over at the University of Pennsylvania and it’s pretty interesting. For those of you still running Mac OS X 10.4 to Mac OS X 10.6.8, a workaround has been discovered for the recently discovered Shellshock bash vulnerabilities. Per Macy, the process replaces bash […]