LaCie partner and online storage company Wuala is shutting down. In a blog post to customers, the company said that customers can no longer purchase storage, or renew existing accounts. The company will have full service only through September 30, with no service at all, including loss of data on November 15. The companies “merged” […]
On Tuesday, Apple released a fifth beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan for public beta testers, then quickly pulled it. The new release came exactly two weeks after the previous one, but was curiously not preceded by a similar seventh developer beta, which may be part of the reason the update was removed. A […]
Microsoft has updated its OneDrive and Office products with more collaboration features. The updates apply to a range of form factors, including PCs, tablets, and smartphones. Moving forward, OneDrive will allow people to sync shared folders directly to their desktop, which lets them be edited directly on smartphones and PCs. Microsoft also added several ways […]
The sixth developer beta for OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which came out yesterday, has given way to a fourth public beta, available to pre-registered testers who signed up through the Appleseed program. Both of the recent betas, which share the build number 15A244d, are said to have very minor tweaks and under-the-hood fixes, including […]
Skype 7.10 for Mac which is focused on improving your video calling experience. The full list of fixed issues and known issues include: Fixed Issues Fixed stutter when Skype window is minimized during a video call. Fixed spinner which sometimes incorrectly appeared during a video call. Resolved PSTN contacts not appearing in custom contact lists.
Spotify will be providing its users personalized playlists on a regular basis, to try and combat the human-curated playlists offered by Apple Music and Google Play Music All Access. Discover Weekly aims to create a highly customized “mixtape” for each subscriber, based on the user’s previous listening habits combined with songs listened to by other […]
Data security and data management firm Software Group has announced the release of Paragon NTFS for Mac 14 Preview for El Capitan. The new version of the utility provides full read and write access to Windows-formatted NTFS partitions on OS X. Paragon NTFS for Mac 14 Preview is available for immediate download, without registration, to […]
Mozilla is blocking Adobe Flash from being run in the Firefox browser following a series of serious security flaws in the software. As of the most recent update all versions of Flash identified with a vulnerability have been blocked by default in order to keep the browser secure, Firefox support head Mark Schmidt advised on […]
A problem in the new iTunes 12.2 update — which including a substantial behind-the-scenes change to the database part of the program to accommodate the new Apple Music features, and which caused confusion in metadata and album art in song files — has allegedly been fixed in a new update, bringing the program to version […]
The huge cache of files recently leaked from Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team is the gift that keeps on giving for attackers. Researchers sifting through the data found a new exploit for a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player. This is the second Flash Player zero-day exploit discovered among the files and the […]