Apple patents ranging from portable electronic devices to battery charging systems have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each.
Read MoreApple has won patents from the US Patent & Trademark Office for the design of the MacBook Pro with a glass trackpad and the MacBook Air.
Patent number D611,045 is for the design of the MacBook Pro with a glass trackpad. The inventors are Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas B. Satzger, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whange and Rico Zorkendorfer.
Read MoreMaintain has released Cocktail 4.7.1 (Snow Leopard Edition), the latest maintenance update of Cocktail (http://cocktail.maintain.se) for users running Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”).
This version adds compatibility with the upcoming Mac OS X 10.6.3 and ability to stop Cocktail from logging out, restarting or shutting down the computer at the end of a scheduled programme. The update also features improvements on the clear Adobe Flash Player caches and cookies procedure as well as overall performance improvements.
Read MoreVolitans Software has updated SMART Utility (http://www.volitans-software.com/SMART%20Utility.html), a hard drive status monitoring application that’s compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.x, to version 2.2. The upgrade adds support for saving and opening drive reports in native format and support for printing SMART reports.
Read MoreEquinux (http://www.equinux.com) has released VPN Tracker 6.2, the newest version of its IPSec-based VPN client for Mac OS X. The upgrade supports the Cisco ASA 5500 series and has improved compatibility with many other Cisco devices for quicker connectivity.
VPN Tracker 6.2 follows high demand for the integration of Macs in Cisco-based enterprise networks. And it contains pre-configured device profiles for the Cisco ASA 5500 series.
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