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Apple seeds iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to developers

iOS 5.1 Beta 3

This new build from Apple, aside from offering some bug fixes and minor improvements to the table, contains some additional features such as the toggle switch found inside the settings menu for 3G connectivity and a future compatibility of Apple’s voice-digital assistant Siri in older iOS devices.

How to change the auto save time in Word for Mac

When you’re working on a business report, term paper, or that novel you just know Hollywood is going to snap up, the last thing you want to face is a frozen program or power outage. Losing your work is tough. Losing your work without a recent auto save is tougher. Auto saves can make your life a lot less frustrating, and extra auto saves can prevent loss of even more data. To change the auto-save time in Microsoft Word, follow these steps…

Apple updates Quicktime and Front Row

Apple has released updates to Quicktime and Front Row in support of the new iTunes 8.

Quicktime 7.5.5 fixes a number of security issues. Front Row 2.1.6 improves compatibility with the new version of Quicktime and iTunes.

Details and links after the break.

Office 2004 and 2008 Updated

On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled new updates to its Office 2004 and 2008 programs. Office 2004 version 11.5.0 adds an update to the Open XML File Converter, allowing for compatibility with the randomly changed file formats of Office 2007 for Windows and Office 2008 for Mac. Office 2008 12.1.1 offers improvements in Word and Excel, with more »

Apple Posts Firmware Updates for Keyboards, MacBooks, and iMac

Apple today released Firmware Updates for the Intel iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Aluminum Keyboard. The firmware updates are available at apple.com and through Software Update. They “[fix] several issues to improve the stability of [the] computers.” The keyboard update addresses an issue with keys repeating themselves wittttttttttttthout warning. Firmware Updates require a restart more »

AT&T hints at future iPhone updates/3G in 2009, with customer survey

Click image for large version So AT&T recently sent out a small survey of about 30 questions to most iPhone owners asking whether or not they’d like certain features or upgrades. Some of the questions were very interesting and show us what AT&T and Apple may be working on, they include: How interested are you, more »

Apple changing their update strategy?

At Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs noted that Apple had provided updates every week for the year so far (at the time only 2 weeks). He also remarked that that was only 2 down, and 50 more to go. As time goes on, it’s becoming more and more clear that he was hinting that Apple would more »

Bug fix list gets over 130 items with latest Leopard build

Yet another pre-release build of OS X Leopard 10.5.2 has been released with no known issues. In build 9C27, the bug fix list swells to over 130 fixes. The new fixes are related to the Finder sidebar, iChat Bluetooth, disk space management, Time Machine, and desktop backgrounds (probably a fix for desktop backgrounds developing large more »

Apple posts iWork updates

iWork ’08 has seen some steady releases of updates since its release last year, here’s the first for 2008. Keynote 4.0.2 “primarily addresses performance issues while playing or exporting presentations.” Pages 3.0.2 “addresses compatibility with Mac OS X.” And last but not least, Numbers 1.0.2 also “addresses compatibility with Mac OS X.” So there are more »

Hopes for 10.5.2 and Beyond

As we’ve already seen, 10.5.2 has fixed some things that many users complained of, most notably in the dock. You can now completely turn off Stacks, or show Stacks in a list view, among other things. Unfortunately, the ability to change from 2D to 3D anywhere, of which a screenshot was forged, is not an more »