Mac OS X

Font woes in Mac OS X 10.6.7 update

by Adam Banks on 29 March 2011 in News

Users have reported broad and reproducible issues with font rendering after installing Mac OS X 10.6.7, the most recent update to the Mac operating system. In attempting to address potential security weaknesses, Apple seems to have broken the way certain fonts are encoded. User Kurt Lang, posting on Apple’s support forum, identified a specific problem [...]

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Adobe tackles Flash cookie concerns

by Simon Aughton on 13 January 2011 in News
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Adobe is planning to make it easier to deleted Flash cookies by providing new tools within web browsers and in OS X.

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Brought to you by the letter ‘i’

by Nik Rawlinson on 5 January 2011 in Editorial
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Everything – and nothing – has changed in seven years. The first editorial I ever wrote for MacUser, back in the autumn of 2003, didn’t include any words that featured the letter ‘i’. I wanted to make the point that Apple’s i-devices weren’t the be-all and end-all of the company.

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Mac App Store opens Jan 6

by Simon Aughton on 16 December 2010 in News
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Apple will open the Mac App Store on Thursday, 6 January, in 90 countries.

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Apple fixes its Leopards

by Simon Aughton on 11 November 2010 in News
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Apple has released a maintenance update for Mac OS X, fixing a dozen or so bugs and a number of security flaws.

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Apple prepares to ditch Java

by Simon Aughton on 22 October 2010 in News
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Apple is advising developers not to bank on the Java environment being present in future editions of Mac OS X.

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