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Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with requested features

Apple on Tuesday issued a major update for its recently refreshed Final Cut Pro X video editing software, adding features like Xsan and Rich XML support after users expressed dissatisfaction with the newly rebuilt software. The free update to version

Apple issues Thunderbolt Display firmware update

Apple has released a Thunderbolt Display firmware update for the new displays they started shipping just last week. The Thunderbolt Display Firmware Update 1.0 improves the stability of the Apple Thunderbolt Display. The update weighs in at just 923 KB

Chrome gets native full screen support for Lion

By Richard Mallion   Google’s Chrome browser has been updated to support two native OS X Lion features; full screen support and overlay scrollbars. To get the update, go the Chrome menu and pull down to “About Google Chrome” and then select

Enable AirDrop Over Ethernet & Unsupported Macs Running OS X 10.7

By Richard Mallion AirDrop is my favourite feature is Lion.  It allows you to easily send and receive files wirelessly over a network just by dragging and dropping. It’s a great addition to Lion, but it’s not supported on all Macs

Re-enable key autorepeat under Lion

By Richard Mallion You may have noticed that holding down a key under Lion now  allows you to select an alternate versions of that character, such as a letter with an accent rather than just repeating that key. To re-enable

Another nail in the Flash coffin

The Microsoft Windows Engineering Team has announced that the Metro interface web browser in Windows 8 will not support plug-ins — Adobe Flash included. This news follows a recent blog post by the Internet Explorer 10 team pushing the use of HTML5 video

Active Directory, Mac OS X and domains ending in .local

By Richard Mallion Apple have just posted an interesting article in relation to an issue where Mac OS X 10.6/10.7 can experience really slow binding times. If you suffer from this issue then the article explains a few DNS tweaks

VMWare Fusion 4

VMware is rolling out a major upgrade to Fusion for Mac, allowing Fusion to take advantage of Lion-specific features of Mac OS X, and boosting integration between Workstation and vSphere to make life easier for developers and IT pros. VMware