http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/20/eye.fi.card.now.allows.selective.uploads.to.sites/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/firefox3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In Brief: Mozilla has already released a third beta of the upcoming Firefox 3.6 update, bringing a variety of bug fixes and security enhancements. Eye-Fi has updated its photo uploading utility with Selective Share, a new feature that allows users to selectively share only certain pictures on sites such as Flickr.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/20/eye.fi.card.now.allows.selective.uploads.to.sites/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/sony.in.talks.with.mozilla.on.new.ps3.browser/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/sonyps3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Sony's PS3 gaming console may soon benefit for the Mozilla Firefox web browser, according to a rumor in a Wednesday PSInsider report. The source is said to be close to Sony, and indicates the two companies have been in talks regarding the matter. Whether a deal has been reached in the negotiations is not known, the source points out.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/sony.in.talks.with.mozilla.on.new.ps3.browser/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/nokia.n900.with.maemo.linux.now.in.the.us/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/nokian900-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Nokia on Wednesday lived up to an earlier promise by officially announcing its N900 smartphone is now available for purchase in the US. The company's first phone to use Maemo Linux is being touted as a mobile computer, thanks in large part to the OS and its ability to Mozilla-based browser with Flash support as well as the capability to run many apps at the same time. There is also 32GB of storage... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/nokia.n900.with.maemo.linux.now.in.the.us/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/11/study.says.firefox.44.of.web.exploits/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/firefox35-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Despite stereotypes, Mozilla's Firefox is significantly more vulnerable to web attacks than any of its rivals, a Cenzic study (PDF) claimed late yesterday. About 44 percent of the 3,100 exploits tracked by the researchers attacked the open-source browser where only 15 percent of them would work in Internet Explorer. Safari is notably much closer to Firefox in vulnerability as 35 percent of explo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/11/study.says.firefox.44.of.web.exploits/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/30/neglected.browser.approaches.major.update/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/camino2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mozilla has posted a first release candidate for Camino 2.0, the next major edition of the company's Mac-focused web browser. RC1 makes relatively few changes compared to previous betas, but it does enable new AppleScript abilities, improved Full Keyboard Access support and per-site whitelisting or blacklisting of Flash. More significant may be an upgrade to the Gecko 1.9.0 engine, which include... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/30/neglected.browser.approaches.major.update/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/28/cuts.off.theoretical.attacks/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/firefox3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5.4, a minor but still significant update to its multi-platform web browser. The patch fixes 16 vulnerabilities, 11 of which are said to be critical. Among these are problems with third-party media libraries, the core and JavaScript engines, web worker calls, the GIF color map parser and the string-to-number converter.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/28/cuts.off.theoretical.attacks/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/01/netapplications.shows.mac.firefox.gains/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/snowleopard-reviewsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />More than a sixth of all Macs are already running Mac OS X Snow Leopard in just over a month of use, new findings from NetApplications show. On September 29th, the one month anniversary of the release, about 18 percent of all Macs tracked by the stats firm were using some version of Snow Leopard, or 0.91 percent of all computers.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/01/netapplications.shows.mac.firefox.gains/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/29/ms.competitors.criticize.eu.settlement/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/ielogo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A number of software developers that make competitors to Microsoft's Internet Explorer have complained about the recent settlement with the EU that would allow Microsoft to give users the option to install another web browser. According to a Monday WSJ report (subscription required), the complaints came via a questionnaire EU officials sent out to Microsoft's competition, urging them for comment o... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/29/ms.competitors.criticize.eu.settlement/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/01/sony.vaios.get.chrome/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0908/googlechrome.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Sony's PC arm and Google have entered into a partnership that will have the latter's Chrome web browser preloaded onto the former's VAIO netbook PCs. Google is also apparently in talks with other PC makers to make its browser the default in new PCs, in similar fashion to competitor Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser. Sony PCs with Chrome are already shipping, though Google is saying the d... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/01/sony.vaios.get.chrome/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/10/macs.faster.on.web/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/safari4-firstlook.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Despite stereotypes, Macs are typically faster than Windows PCs on the web, according to data from FutureMark. Best known for its 3DMark benchmark suite, the company says that Apple's systems are about 5 to 10 percent faster on average in its Peacekeeper web code test than Windows computers with equivalent hardware. This includes any browser that runs on both platforms, including Apple's own Saf... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/10/macs.faster.on.web/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:25:00 GMT