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World’s Most Advanced Machinery Was Reason For Apple’s Liquidmetal Deal, Expert Says | Cult of Mac

Cult of Mac, discusses why the Apple LiquidMetal deal maybe more than just the alloy(s), but the injection machinary as well.

World’s Most Advanced Machinery Was Reason For Apple’s Liquidmetal Deal, Expert Says

NetNewswire? I have to do what to get support?

Well, I haven’t been usingNetNewsWire in a while, especially since it has a tendency to start spewing Flash errors to the console when hidden…  Or it’s been open for too long, or …..

My last communication with them was via their own dedicated forums, so I was surprised to read from Kirk McElhearn that [...]

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 – World of Apple

According to World of Apple, Apple has released to developers the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The release comes just five days after the first release of Mac OS X 10.6.5.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 weighs in at 558MB for the delta update and contains six focus areas, no known [...]

Steam Client updated…

Vavle has released a Steam client update. As always to apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select “Check for Steam Client Updates…”. The changes listed include:

New Features

Updated friends chats to use new tabbed chat interface (see Friends tab in the Settings dialog to turn off opening [...]

Indigo 4.1.13 Released

Perceptive Automation has just released Indigo v4.1.13.

In addition to the major 4.0 improvements and 4.1 features, this update includes:

Added UI to set default ramp rate and brightness for In-LineLinc Dimmers. Fixed bug that sometimes caused PowerLinc links sync error after creating a new database file. Fixed very minor bug that caused a [...]

Portal 2 release date – Feb 9, 2011

Valve has officially revealed the release date for its highly anticipate puzzle/shooter sequel, Portal 2. Fans will be able to return to Aperture Science and suck sentient turrets through giant tubes on February 9, 2011!

The game was originally slated for release this year, but got pushed back, reasons unknown.  Also, Stephen Merchant will [...]

Steam discusses the Game Performance improvements in 10.6.4

When we launched Steam on Mac OS X back in May, there was a lot of buzz about performance, particularly relative to Windows running on the same machine. While we met our goal of making sure all of our customers had an acceptable gaming experience at launch, we have spent a large chunk of [...]

Could there be upcoming video driver updates for the Mac?

Well, Valve thinks so, they just released updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2:

Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Changes to take advantage of upcoming Mac graphics driver update Fixed door getting stuck [...]

Mac OS X 10.6.5 Beta Build (10H525) – World of Apple

Apple has released to developers the first build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The previous update to Mac OS X, 10.6.4 was released in mid-June, not long after Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H525 [...]

Welcome iOS 4.02 & 3.22

Apple has today released an update for iOS 4 and iPad software. The update fixes a PDF exploit that came to light last week after it was used to aid in the Jailbreaking of iPhones. Fears were raised early last week that the exploit could be used for malicious purposes.

The update which brings [...]