Tag Archives: OSX

Apple has today announced the newest version of OS X, called OS X ‘Mavericks’, at the WWDC meeting in San Francisco today. Mavericks is the newest version of OS X that is designed to offer extended battery life in mobile devices, and to increase performance and responsiveness across the entire Mac line-up. In a deviation from the current trend of naming OS X versions after species of cat, Mavericks is an entirely new approach with a number of new features.

Craig Federighi, Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering introduced the new OS, highlighted some of the new features. One of these is Finder tabs, which takes design influences from Safari. Another is Tags, allowing tagging of documents and files in the Mac, which offers greater possibilities for Search. In addition, Mavericks will also support multiple displays, so users with Apple TV can have multiple displays through AirPlay.
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Apple has released the next update for the Mac operating system to registered members of the Mac Developer program for testing. The seed comes in the form of OS X 10.8.4, which is the next significant update set to be applied to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The beta is the first appearance of 10.8.4 which comes around two weeks after the public release of OS X 10.8.3.
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Apple has today released the next significant update to the Mac operating system in the form of OS X 10.8.3. The update which has been in beta testing for a number of months, brings with it the ability for users to redeem iTunes gift cards via the camera on their Mac. In addition, Boot Camp, the Apple platform for running Windows on the Mac, has received a number of enhancements, including support for systems with hard drives of 3 terabytes in size and extended support for Windows 8.
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Apple has once again remotely disabled the Java 7 plugin for web browsers, due to another security issue. The company has utilized the anti-malware functionality within OS X known as XProtect which allow the company to add versions of Java to a blacklist that matches any versions with a security vulnerability (via MacGeneration). In order to protect users, Apple simply changes the permitted version number for the Java plugin to an unreleased version which prevents previous versions of plugins from being used.
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Apple has released yet another beta of the next update to the Mac operating system in the form of OS X 10.8.3. The beta version of the update has been, as before, seeded only to registered members of the Apple Developer program and has appeared a little over a week after the previous build. There’s little detail on the changes involved but Apple has been seeding beta versions of the update since November last year so it is likely to be nearing final release.
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Oracle has today released an update to Java in the form of Java 7 Update 11, bringing with it fixes for the security vulnerability that was reported last week. The release, available now from the Java website, means that personal computers, including Macs, will be able to have Java re-enabled on them as Apple had originally blocked the Java browser plugin to stop the behavior of the malicious exploit.
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Following reports that a major security flaw has been discovered in Java browser plugins, Apple has taken quick action to limit the number of users that it could potentially affect on the Mac. The company has released an update which limits the behavior of the Java Applet plugin until a fix for the security flaw can be found. The update is run through the anti-malware capabilities within the OS X operating system that allows the blacklisting of malicious software.
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