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Apple patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard

Apple on Tuesday patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update.
Apple releases Safari 5.1.2 with PDF viewing support and bug fixes

Apple released Safari 5.1.2 for Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2, OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, and Windows yesterday. The release enhances some of the browser's features, fixes bugs, and improves overall stability.
VMware backs off on Fusion server licence freedom

Last week, we reported that VMware Fusion 4.1 can run virtual versions of Leopard and Snow Leopard, a feature previously barred by Apple?s end-user license agreement. This week, the other shoe dropped: VMware posted a blog entry that seems to back away from that feature.
VMware Fusion 4.1 to run Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard client versions

On Thursday VMware released Fusion 4.1, an update to its virtualisation software that adds numerous small improvements, and a huge unheralded change that could provide Mac users with much more flexibility when it comes to running old versions of Mac OS X.
Mac OS X sandboxing flaw reported by CoreLabs Research

Security firm CoreLabs Research claims to have found a flaw in the sandboxing functionality of Mac OS X.
Apple releases Java updates for Lion and Snow Leopard

Apple has released a batch of Java updates for its Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard users.
Mac OS X security update causes crashes, say experts

Apple has released a massive security update for Mac OS X along with a new version of its OS, however, according to several reports, installing the patches could render computers unbootable.
OS X Lion sells 6 million copies and grabs 22% share of Mac market

Apple has sold more than six million copies of Mac OS X 10.7, better known as Lion, since its debut in late July, CEO Tim Cook revealed yesterday.
Google patches Chrome to play nice with Mac OS X Lion

Google yesterday updated Chrome to work better in Apple's Lion OS, adding support for the operating system's default two-fingered page swiping gesture.
Apple reports one million Mac OS X Lion downloads in a day

Apple has announced that customers have downloaded more than one million copies of Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store in the upgrade's first day of availability.

Latest Features

Beyond the Lion's roar: The best overlooked, underrated features

Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and enhancements that can easily be missed.
Bugs and fixes: When OS X Lion slows to a crawl

How I tracked down, identified and ultimately eradicated a mysterious bug for which there seemed no immediately obvious cause.
The complete guide to running Windows on a Mac

Mac OS X is a great operating system for most tasks, but some enterprise software just won't run on anything but Windows. This guide will show you how to get Windows 7 running on your Mac. And since Windows 8 Developer Preview was just released a few weeks ago, it made sense to include this as well to spare you the early adopter pains I had.
Mac OS X Lion has a problem with creative tools

We outline issues with tools from Adobe, Quark, Autodesk, Maxon and Microsoft.
Mac OS X Lion Server is a downgrade that could see corporate IT switching to Windows

The new Profile Manager is a nice addition, but in almost every other respect, Lion Server is a downgrade that may prompt a move to Windows Server.
Mac OS X Lion: What you need to know

Apple has been gradually pulling back the curtain on its latest and greatest cat, first at a preview event last October and then this week at the Worldwide Developers Conference. And what we?ve seen thus far is a pretty significant shift for the Mac OS, influenced in large part by Apple?s mobile operating system, iOS.
Apple plans to democratise servers with its Mac OS X strategy

Recently, Apple previewed more features that will be available in its upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.7, "Lion." We first got a glimpse of Lion at Apple's Back to the Mac event in October, when CEO Steve Jobs said that several technologies developed in Apple's iOS mobile operating system would be brought back into Mac OS X as part of Lion. Since iOS evolved from earlier versions of Mac OS X, the "back to the Mac" moniker made sense.
A decade of Mac OS X

On March 24, 2001, the iMac was less than three years old, the iPod was still more than six months away, and Macs ran at astounding speeds of up to 733MHz. But most importantly, Apple on that day released the first official version of Mac OS X, changing the future of its platform forever.
HTML 5 and the future of the web

One of the latest tech buzzwords given wings by the success of the iPhone and iPad is HTML5. Apple has pitched this up-and-coming iteration of the web?s main building block as everything from an alternative App Store platform to the Flash-less future of multimedia on the Internet. But what exactly is HTML5 and what are its real world benefits to average users like you and me?
Hitachi vs Seagate vs Western Digital: Hard drive makers talk up new storage tech

In a reflection of the hard-fought battle among hard drive makers to get ahead of rivals, Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital this week talked up storage innovations, including a Hitachi drive that combines an optical platter with Micron's densest NAND flash memory and advanced hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate that hold up to 3TB of data.

How-tos

How to adjust OS X?s software update

How to control multiple Macs in the home

How to limit your children's Internet access

How to install QuickTime 7 Pro with Lion

Archiving email messages as text files

How to use an old Mac as a backup server

Apple iPad: How to make a business case for one

Eight critical steps for migrating to Exchange 2010

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