Adobe Flash Player 10 beta brings major speed improvement

July 7, 2008


The slowness of Flash has distant been a complaint on the fairer platform and it finally looks like somebody at Adobe was paying attention. Adobe Labs has released a beta for Flash Player 10 and among the changes is a major speed boost. Indeed commenting on his personal site, one Adobe Flash engin…

Mozilla Sunbird 0.8 for Mac OS X

July 6, 2008

You hate Entourage, and you’re not particularly fond of iCal. You’ve waited endlessly for Nighthawk, Contactizer Pro is too complicated, and you want a native app instead of using Google Calendar or another web calendar. And, since you’re saving money for an iPhone 3G, you don’t want to spend an…

PC Tools iAntiVirus aims to be Mac specific

July 2, 2008

With the recent trojan scare PC Tools’ timing for the beta release of iAntiVirus for Mac could hardly be better. While there are a variety of anti-virus applications for the Mac, iAntiVirus seems to be particularly designed to reduce resource usage by simply ignoring virus signatures for Windows…

Next VMware Fusion beta to offer Leopard Server virtualization

June 13, 2008

It’s the Holy Grail of Mac virtualization: a Mac inside another computer, running happily on a virtual machine and subject to your every whim. Up until last fall, there was no framework in Apple’s licensing to allow for Mac OS X virtualization; soon after the ground shifted and the heavens s…

Versions goes beta

June 4, 2008

Almost a year ago, we wrote about Versions, a program designed to bring an intuitive and appealing interface to the Subversion version control system. Now, Made by Sofa has finally released the first beta.Although Versions isn’t the only game in town for accessing Subversion repositories throu…