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VMWare Cautions Users with ATI Graphics Cards from Installing Mac OS X 10.5.7

VMWare, makers of the popular Fusion virtualization software, has officially warned users away from installing Mac OS X 10.5.7 if their Mac uses an ATI graphics card or chip. According to VMWare’s blog, the update will break the 3D graphics acceleration feature supported by Fusion. “You will likely see issues ranging from slow performance, to […]

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Rumor: Boot Camp Under Mac OS X to Include Windows HFS+ Drivers

Mac OS X 10.6 is en route and according to MacRumors, evidence has been discovered showing a new version of Apple’s Boot Camp Utility under a Mac OS X 10.6 build offering support for Windows HFS+ drivers. Such a change would allow Windows installations to read Mac OS X HFS+ formatted partitions and make it […]

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Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0 Build 3844 Released

Virtualization software maker Parallels released Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3810 on Wednesday. The new version, a 174.6 megabyte

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VLC Updated to 0.9.9

Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), has recently been updated to version 0.9.9. The new version, a 19.2 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: Fullscreen behaviour on Windows with multiple screens. Workaround bug with libxml2 >=2.7.3. Video performance […]

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OnLive Gaming Service Announced, Will Be Mac and Windows-Compatible

Over at the Game Developers Conference, the OnLive broadband gaming service was announced. The effort, developed over seven years, focuses on offering a variety of game choices to subscribers by handling the each game’s video and audio on remote servers and streaming the results to players. According to Gamasutra, the service is stated to be […]