MacTech Magazine (https://www.mactech.com) — a monthly magazine focused on the Mac at the technical level (and for which Yours Truly is a contributing writer) — has released an extensive benchmark study of virtualization solutions running on Intel-based Macs.
Read MoreApple has introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its photo editing and management software, with over 200 new features. Also, the upgrade builds on the Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto ’09, says Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
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comScore (http://www.comscore.com), which measures the digital world, released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry over the three month period between September and December 2009.
Read MoreZiggySoft has released a new version (2.3.7) of iWeb Valet (http://www.ziggy-soft.com/News.html(, a tool to enhance and upload iWeb pages. The upgrade: adds basic support for international fonts; removes FTP real-time logging to increase listing speed; corrects an iDisk transfer bug; and enhances the Text menu.
Tension Software has updated Password Repository (http://www.pomola.com/products_passwordrepository/passwordrepository.html), a Mac OS X password storage utility, to version 2.11.9. It’s a maintenance release that fixes some bugs.
Read MoreAdobe Systems has apologized for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player “languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in four times since the flaw was reported,” reports “Computerworld” (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9153520/Adobe_apologizes_for_16_month_old_Flash_bug).
Adobe says the bug was fixed in the beta of Flash Player 10.1, which was released last November. The final version of Flash Player 10.1, however, won’t ship until later this year.
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