Posts Tagged Windows

Boot Camp Drivers Update 2.2 for Windows out

Apple just released Boot Camp Drivers Update 2.2 for Windows which addresses issues with the Apple trackpad and turns off the red digital audio port LED on laptop computers when it is not being used. It also includes support for the Apple Magic mouse and wireless keyboard. It is intended only for use with Microsoft [...]

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QuickTime 7.6.5 for Windows released

Apple just released QuickTime 7.6.5 for Windows which addresses the following issues: Applications not reliably loading libraries required by QuickTime at startup Incorrect display of QuickTime movies embedded in a webpage using custom scale attributes The update is available at Apple’s Support Download page (30.99MB).

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Safari 4.0.3 and Multi-Touch Trackpad 1.1 updates

Apple on Tuesday released an update to their web browser application. Safari 4.0.3 is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to stability, compatibility and security including: Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins Stability improvements for Top Sites Fixes an issue that prevented some [...]

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Latest AVG update mistakes iTunes as a Trojan

AppleInsider reported that a virus database update over the weekend has caused AVG, a Windows anti-virus program, to falsely detect the iTunes software as a Trojan. The faulty database update is said to detect iTunes DLL files as the “Small.BOG” Trojan virus. AVG immediately posted a fix but some users might still continue experiencing issues [...]

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Gentle poke or slap in the face?

If a Mac running Leopard hooks up with a computer running Windows, this is the icon for that Windows PC: Reality bites. For Windows users, that is. Thanks, MDN.

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Fastest Windows Vista notebook

What’s PC World’s fastest Windows Vista notebook? Dude, it’s the Macbook Pro. Ah, I love the smell of sweet irony early in the morning.

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Anti-virus a must for Windows, not for Macs; online music download levelling off?; 37 million shipped… or is it?

A writer states that if you are a Windows you need to have anti-virus installed, as well as, anti-spyware. But if you are a Mac user, then you don’t even have to think about it. The writer does state that Macs are “mostly immune from spyware and pop-up issues,” which is sort of true, considering [...]

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Windows’s messed up; scare tactics from Symantec; Mad as Hell; buy an iMac now and; Mossberg says

Windows is broken. Microsoft admits it. Their Longhorn is so messed up that they turned to Linux for inspiration for their Vista OS. Symantec tries to sell their anti-viruses to Mac users by scaring them. It’s not working. The “Mad as Hell” series was about a writer’s sojourn into switching to a Mac. It was [...]

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