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Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.4.6

via Apple Insider: Apple Computer this week began providing to its developers the first external pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.4.6 — the sixth maintenance update to the company’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system, which made its debut last April. According to tipsters and reports already present on several Internet Web sites, [...]

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Office 2007 Screenshot

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A Scanner Darkly trailer

Here is the new trailer for A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of the surreal SF novel by Philip K. Dick. Coming July 7.Link to Quicktime file.

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Extremely critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit released

The cause for this problem is that OS X will automatically launch shell scripts (even inside a ZIP file) when it’s missing certain syntax at the beginning of the script. Heise online recommends this temporary workaround: The best immediate recourse against such an attack is to deactivate the option “Open ‘safe’ files after downloading” in [...]

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25 Free Grunge Fonts

WebDesignTimes has a nice collection of Grundge fronts, which seem to be all the rage with the kids these days. So head on over and check it out, 25 Free Grunge Fonts.

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RSS, flickr and del.icio.us on a Mobile Phone

Engadget reports that Mobileglu is offering an interesting new service that gives users the ability to read RSS feeds, flickr, del.icio.us, and other sources of content in a mobile friendly format. Think this will lead to smarter content developers making their own sites more mobile friendly, or just a few lawsuits?

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17 in. MacBook Pro in June?

According to AppleInsider, Apple will release its 17 in. MacBook Pro this June. This comes just two months after the predicted April launch of the company’s consumer-oritened Intel-based iBook. Though work on the two models had been done in parallel, the scant availability of slimline 8x DVD drives for the high-end 17” MacBook Pro created [...]

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How To Block Fasterfox Requests

The latest version of Fasterfox, v1.0.3, checks the for the robots.txt file on the site the viewer is visiting to check whether it should pre-fetch or not. This new feature allows webmasters to add the following text (in bold) to their robots.txt file to prevent Fasterfox from pre-fetching links. Text To Add To “robots.txt”: User-agent: [...]

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Xbox 360 + DIRECTV = HD Bliss?

Details of Microsoft’s partnership with DIRECTV is starting to slowly come to light. At CES, the two announced a joint agreement that would provide DIRECTV content for PlaysForSure portable media devices, Media Center PCs and Xbox 360 game consoles. Now according to the Official Xbox Magazine, DIRECTV content may be available directly through the 360′s [...]

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Apple Pushes Back Ship Date of MacBook Pros

Launched with a bang and originally slated to ship in February, Apple has now changed the shipping date for its MacBook Pro line of notebooks to anywhere from 3 to 4 weeks out. This indicates that March will be the MacBook Pro’s shipping time, but it’s still uncertain on exact dates. When Apple launched the [...]

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