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Canon updates EOS Utility for full Lion compatibility
Canon has finally updated its Canon EOS Utility to launch and work properly for users of Mac OS X Lion (10.7.x), alleviating a problem Lion users have had for months with the app. The program offers two main abilities to Canon EOS camera users: an Image Capture-like ability to selectively transfer pictures from the camera, as well as an option to remotely operate the camera from a user’s computer using a supplied interface cable….

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New 10.7.3 release includes Security Update 2012-001
Today’s release of Mac OS X 10.7.3 also incorporates Apple’s first Security Update of 2012, addressing vulnerabilities in components throughout the OS and its components. The update is also available as a separate download for Snow Leopard users, and while none of the issues have been reported in the wild, the update is recommended for all users of Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7, and closes potential issues in programs ranging from Apache to QuickTime….

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The popular and elegant mobile social networking app, Path, has come under heavy criticism after developer Arun Thampi discovered that the app uploads users’ address books to its servers without asking for permission. The whole ordeal was discovered by Thampi when he encountered the back-end feature while attempting to hack the application to run on the Mac OS X. After he went public with the news, it sparked quite a bit of backlash from users who viewed the address book upload as a violation of their privacy.

The Path CEO, Dave Morin, quickly responded to Thampi by clarifying that the upload was

Apple drops Mac OS X 10.7.3 regular update in favor of combo
Apple has temporarily solved problems with the CUI bug in the Mac OS X 10.7.3 update by changing the download users get. Anyone who checks Software Update, along with seeking the usual download, now gets the combo update to Lion (1.3GB, link may not work) instead. The full installer is known to work properly at the expense of a much larger file size….

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Apple posts Mac OS X 10.7.3 with new languages, RAW
Apple on Wednesday afternoon posted Mac OS X 10.7.3 (release notes). The Lion upgrade adds several languages, including Catalan for Spaniards as well as Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian. RAW photo compatibility has expanded to several new cameras, including the Nikon J1 and V1, Olympus’ current PEN cameras, and current Sony Alpha and NEX cameras, such as the NEX-5N….

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Is your computer life hectic? Are all of those extraneous windows floating around keeping you from concentrating?

If a Mac OS X computer is one of your main tools of choice for getting work done, then while multitasking can be daunting. It isn’t because Mac OS X has bad multitasking, it’s because of the way that we perceive things. When we have a lot of Windows open at once, we get distracted – plain and simple. Coming to the rescue to help make sure you get your work done by focusing on the task at hand is an awesome application called Isolator.<br

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If you have a Mac and you’re running Mac OS X Lion, then you can open up Software Update (click the  and then choose Software Update) and you will find a new update available: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3. This update is minor, but notable from the previous version 10.7.2. The update also comes with an update for Safari that is built into the Lion download package; Safari version 5.1.3 as it has been named.

The fixes in Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 include the following:

• Add

Smile brings PDFpen to iPad, Mac version gets iCloud support
Mac app developer Smile has introduced a version of its business-oriented PDF editor PDFpen to the iPad, allowing users to add text, images and signatures to PDFs, fill out forms and perform many other editing, annotation and management functions with PDF documents, will full iCloud support to allow seamless transfer between iOS and Mac OS X machines. The company also release a new version of PDFpen for Mac for both Mac App Store and direct-update customers….

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It’s finally here…. er, coming.

Mozilla Firefox is likely one of the greatest Internet browsers that can be installed on a modern computer today. It’s open source, has a large add-on library, and has powerful rendering engines. Windows, Mac, and Linux users can all gracefully use Firefox and be very happy with their browsing results. There is of course great competition from other Internet browsers such as Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, however Google Chrome doesn’t have nearly as many add-on capabilities and Internet Explorer isn’t exactly the fastest tool for Web surfing.
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A lot of us have been waiting for this moment.

Steam, a popular game-purchasing, game-launching, and social-gaming platform is now available on the iOS platform. On Windows or on Mac OS X, it allows us to purchase games with which we can launch from Steam itself and it includes things like chatting with the friends that we make in those games and/or people we already know that we have added as contacts. It also provides a way to connect with your friends to play in multi-player. Steam is probably best noted for some of its most popular games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops, Portal 2, and Team Fortress

MacBook Pros from mid-2010 get an EFI update.

With the release of Mac OS X Lion, one of the coolest features was being able to restore from a recovery via internet connection. Unfortunately, this was not so for the MacBook Pro 13 inch models from mid-2010. Now, Apple has changed that with an update to EFI that makes it so that those notebooks, like many other Mac OS X Lion-supported computers, can have this internet recovery feature. If you don’t know what EFI means, it stands for Extensible Firmware Interface and it controls the low-level hardware actions. It can be thought of as basically the Mac version

Apple recently delivered a new build of Mac OS X to developers (build 11D46). The focus for the build still includes iCloud Document Storage, Spotlight, Safari, Mail,iCal, and Address Book features. While Apple already supported iCloud document features in its iPhone and iPad versions of the iWork suite, its Mac version of iWork hasn’t yet rolled out support for seamless cross-platform document editing. This update is said to address that.

The new 10.7.3 build will also be extending official Mac support for Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian languages. Along with

As the holiday season is nearing its end and tax season is about to begin, the folks over at Quicken are seeking to bring what appears to be a holiday gift that many Mac users will appreciate. The company has emailed users that it will finally begin to offer a version of Quicken that will run under Lion and Snow Leopard.

Aaron Forth of the Inuit Personal Finance Group wrote the following to users in an email recently: “I understand the frustration this may have caused you and have put a team in place to address this issue. I am happy to announce that we will have a solution that makes Quicken 2007

Shortly after the release of Firefox 9.0, Mozilla ended up quickly releasing an update to fix a bug that was causing the browser to crash on Linux, Mac, and Windows systems.

Firefox 9.0.1 was released on Wednesday, leaving many users wondering what the update was for. The company didn’t specify in the 9.0.1 release notes why the update was needed but according to developers, the update was prompted by crash reports, primarily those from Mac users. To fix the problem which caused crashes when users ran certain add-on toolbars, Mozilla’s developers removed a patch that had been applied in version 9.0.<br

Late Tuesday, Apple issued a brand new beta version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 (build 11D36) to its developer community for forthcoming testing.

Apple’s last beta release (OS X 10.7.2) came in October, when Apple served up iCloud support to the desktop OS.

For now, all we can tell you is that this pre-Christmas release comes with no known issues. Developers, however, are encouraged to focus their attention on iCloud Document Storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight, and Safari.

The delta version comes in at 986.68 MB while the