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[3 Sep 2010 | View Comments | ]
How to downgrade iTunes 10 to iTunes 9.2.1 [Mac & Win]

Steve Jobs at Apple Special Event announced iTunes 10 for both Mac & PC. This upgrade consider to be one of the major iTunes upgrade as it brings Ping, a new music-oriented social network, which is integrated right into your iTunes. For folks who haven’t downloaded iTunes 10 can download your copy here. According to the iPhoen Dev Team, iTunes 10 is safe for all Jailbroken & Unlocked devices and a significant users have also confirmed that, iTunes 10 is fast in syncing and the Ping feature is incredible.
But still, …

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[27 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]
Apple Seeds 3rd Developer Build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H531)

Exactly a week ago, Apple pushed out the 2nd Build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H529) to selected developers. Today, Apple started seeding a 3rd Build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build (10H531) to its developers for testing. It looks like Apple is continuing to make rapid progress on the update.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 weighs in at 569MB for the delta update. Previous build carried no known issues, but Build 10H531 exhibits one known issue invilving USB devices not operating properly after waking from sleep on machines with …

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[22 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Here come one more video of yet to release Office for Mac 2011. In this video, Kurt Schmucker a senior evangelist, Macintosh Business Unit, Microsoft, talk about how Office for Mac 2011 brings compatibility between Office for Mac & Office for Windows. He also mentioned that, Office for Mac 2011 has basic photo editing capability.
Looking forward to Office for Mac 2011 ? Well, got to wait for now. For the mean time, watch the video below..

To know more about Office,  you can always follow …

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[20 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]
Apple Seeds 2nd Developer Build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H529)

A week ago Apple pushed out Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H525 to selected developers. According to iPhoneInCanada, Apple have started seeding a 2nd Build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build (10H529) to its developers.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 weighs in at 558MB for the delta update and there are no know issues. It looks like the two known issues were fix in this build. Apple asked the developers to focus on AFP, Mail, Printing, 3D Graphics, QuickTime, and X11.
Apple began the seeding …

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[14 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]
Apple Seeds First Developer Build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H525)

Yesterday Apple seeded its first Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build (10H525) to its developers. This build weight approximately 517 MB. Mac OS X 10.6.5 is the fifth maintenance release to the company’s Snow Leopard Operating System. The fourth maintenance release of Snow Leopard was released back in June, just after the close of WWDC 2010.

According to MacRumors, the developers are being asked to focus their testing on iCal, Mail, Printing, 3D Graphics, QuickTime and X11. The build reportedly contains two documented known issues related to activating user interface …

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[10 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]
Flash 10.1 for Mac OS X Updated with Hardware Acceleration

Project Manager Thibault Imbert reported that, Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 for Mac has been updated with hardware accelerated decoding of video content. Which offers smoother playback, lower system resource usage, and longer battery life for portable devices.

We just pushed a few minutes ago a new version of the Flash Player 10.1.82.76 containing a nice feature that was in beta until now called “Gala”. Yes, H.264 GPU decoding in Mac OSX is now officially enabled in the Flash Player.
You should notice now a nice …

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[29 Jul 2010 | View Comments | ]
Behind the scenes of Office for Mac [Video]

Microsoft has posted a video of the first in a series of behind-the-scenes looks at Office for Mac 2011, which is expected to be out in the last quarter this year. In the below video, the creators of Office for Mac 2011 talk about few features they worked on.

Eric Schuchman, Program Manager, PowerPoint
Ryan Panchadasaram, Program Manager, Outlook for Mac
Amy Wang, Developer, Outlook for Mac
Han-Yi Shaw, User Experience Manager

•    Starting off with the new Template Gallery in Office 2011, this feature allows you to quickly and easily …

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[22 Jul 2010 | View Comments | ]
Mac OS X Server v10.6.4 Update (v.1.1)

Just a few hours ago, Apple released a updated version for its Mac OS X Server currently running Snow Leopard. This version 10.6.4 (v.1.1) weighs 615.34 MB and it is loaded with Safari 5, general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of the server, as well as specific fixes for:

CalDAV querying of email addresses with Active Directory and Open Directory servers
stability and reliability accessing Wiki Server pages
view movies on Wiki Server with Safari on iPad
accessing publicly accessible Wikis when logged in …

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[21 Jul 2010 | View Comments | ]
How to Install Mac OS X in Virtual Box on Windows

Previously we have learned, how to install Windows on Mac OS X via Apple’s BootCamp. Which allow you to choose the operating system (Mac OS X / Windows) while its booting. Today, we will learn how to install Mac OS X in Virtual Box on a Windows Machine. This method will not give you an option to choose the operating system while its booting. But, you  can run both the operating systems simultaneously. Just boot into Windows and the run Mac OS X on windows via Virtual Box (Virtual Machine). …

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[15 Jun 2010 | View Comments | ]
Snow Leopard – Mac OS X 10.6.4 is ready to download.

Finally, major update for Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.4) is ready for download. The developer have noticed no issues in the focused areas that Apple have assigned to them. This update is strong recommended for all users running Mac OS Snow Leopard. It includes Safari 5 and general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that

resolve an issue that causes the keyboard or trackpad to become unresponsive
resolve an issue that may prevent some Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications from opening
address …

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[15 Jun 2010 | View Comments | ]
Apple released 8th Build Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569) to selected developers.

Surprisingly, Apple started seeding a 8th build of Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569) to developers. As we know, there has been no knowned issues since last few build but, Apple is making it more optimized and again wanted the developers to focus on Graphics Drivers, SMB, USB, Voice Over & VPN. This particular build weighs in at 613.8 MB and contains a seed note with no documentation changes from the previous build which was seeding a week ago (Mac OS X Build 10F566). According to the …