Apple today released OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 which is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac including fixes that:

• Resolve an issue where the “Reopen windows when logging back in” setting is always enabled
• Improve compatibility with certain British third-party USB keyboards
• Address an issue that may prevent files from being saved to a server
• Improve the reliability of copying files to an SMB server

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5167.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 is available via Software Update and also vi standalone installer.

More info and download links here.

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• Remove AACS, and BD+ encryptions up to MKB v24 from commercial Blu-ray movies.
• Crack/decrypt CSS copy-protections from retail DVD movies.
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• Convert 1080p Blu-ray movie to iPad 2, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, QuickTime player, etc.
• Fast conversion speed and perfect audio and video synchronization.
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Rip DVD and Blu-ray movie directly from discs

Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac could directly rip commercial Blu-ray and DVD movies to your needed formats from discs. Besides that, it also supports input standard DVD movies from IFO files and ISO image files.

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Convert Blu-ray disc and general DVD to Apple devices like Apple TV, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod 4, and other multimedia devices like PSP\PS3, XBox 360, Western Digital TV HD media player, Seagate Free Agent Theatre, Motorola Droid X, HTC Hero, HTC Magic, HTC Evo 4G, HTC Incredible, Nexus One, Samsung Fascinate, Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant, Blackberry Torch, Nokia N9, Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Toshiba Thrive, etc. and video editing software: iMovie, FCP, FCE, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid etc.

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Pavtube Blu-ray ripper for Mac adopts advanced encoding technology to speed up the conversion speed. With Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, you can convert DVD and Blu-Ray movie 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar tools.

Audio tracks and subtitles of different languages are available

The Mac BD ripper enables users to select desired languange as output audio track and subs from the source Blu-ray disc/DVD, no matter your mother tongue or other foreign languages. The forced subtitles are available as well.

Edit DVD and Blu-Ray movie clips

The Blu-ray Ripper for Mac offers powerful editing functions, such as trimming and cropping video area, adding watermark, adjusting special effect, replacing audio, deinterlacing, etc.

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A preview window is inlaid for you to preview the source files as well as take snapshots before conversion.

Ripping by titles and chapters

The Mac BD Ripper enables users to select their needed titles and chapters in a BD/DVD movie to convert at will.

3.05 Contains some bug fixes Feb 26th

What’s new in version 3.0.4

- Add Short-cut Key for trim editing,”Space” key for play and pause,”[" key for trim start and "]” key for trim end.
- More stable in audio conversion and audio trimming.
- Fixed the default output path problem for videos with minor language in name.
- Refined user interface appearance and fixed misspelling.

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Mac Blu-ray player, the world’s first blu-ray player for Mac, is the unique video conversion tool that supports both Mac and Windows systems. It is its birth that finishes the history that Mac cannot play Blu-ray disc. It is powerful and distinguished. Mac Blu-ray player is able to support all mac models, including not only macbook pro, air, mac mini, but also imac and mac pro. Therefore, with this blessing tool, current Mac users are available to enjoy their favorite bluray movies in fun on their beloved Mac devices.

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With advanced Blu-ray decryption and processing capability, Mac Blu-ray Player can decrypt any Blu-ray discs successfully as well as DVD. The Mac Blu-ray Player is possible to read commercial Blu-ray discs released in different regions, as well as removing BD+ and AACS encryptions from latest Blu-ray movies. It allows users loading commercial blu-ray discs directly from Blu-ray Disc and Blu-ray Folder. Also, Mac Blu-ray Player is able to play DVD discs. It supports DVD decryption and DVD menu.

Outstanding universal performance. Play anything including movie, video audio, music and photo.

Mac Blu-ray player is a manifold device. It can support almost all formats of files. Mac Blu-ray Player is able to play not only movies and videos but also audios and music. What’s more, it can browse photos in innovation. Mac Blu-ray Player kept easy to understand and navigate with user-friendly interface and nice layout. Although there are complex codecs and hardware acceleration techniques working in the background, we tried to keep the front end simple enough for users with any level of computer knowledge.

Support playback of Blu-ray or DVD movies in ISO image format.

Mac Blu-ray player plays not only Blu-ray or DVD discs but also their ISO files. If there is a movie in ISO format in your computer, open the Mac Blu-ray Player and click on the “Open file” button. An interface then will pop up. You can select the file you want watch and start playback directly. It is easy to understand and navigate. Despite of the complex codecs and hardware acceleration techniques working in the background, we tried our best to present the most simple and convenient front for users.

Powerful High Definition video player and hardware acceleration available.

The uniqueness of this tool doesn’t end at the fact that it is the very first Blu-ray player for Mac. With the arrival of this one of a kind Mac Blu-ray player, Mac users will now be able to enjoy Blu-ray quality and experience on their desktop. Mac Blu-ray Player can directly play Blu-ray and DVD movie without any quality loss. Mac Blu-ray Player keeps the outputting video with the high-definition quality without loss of data and frame. It allows full preservation of all audio tracks (like DTS HD Master Audio, Dolby TrueHD Audio, etc.), subs streams, chapter markers and videos. Especially, it also supports NVIDIA’s CUDA acceleration technology.

DTS5.1 guarantees super high quality output.

It is well known that DTS5.1 can guarantee super high quality of the output. Mac Blu-ray Player does support DTS5.1 for Mac initially in the world. At present, Mac Blu-ray Player can support DTS5.1 in v.1.9.5 and its upper versions for Mac platforms as well as Windows. It is DTS5.1 that make Mac Blu-ray Player even better. After addinig DTS5.1 into it, Mac Blu-ray Player can bring your Mac or PC to the most fantastic HD video enjoyment.

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Toast Titanium goes way beyond the very basic burning in the Mac OS and iLife software, and sets the standard for burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs on the Mac ($19.99 Blu-ray plug-in required).

Create superior sounding audio CDs with smooth crossfades and transitions. Enjoy your TV shows anywhere with exclusive TiVoToGo and EyeTV burning. Convert and export video for an iPod, PSP, mobile phone, and more. Burn files of any size, and automatically catalog the contents of your discs. Copy your audio CDs, movies and DVDs. There is no easier or faster way to save, share, and enjoy your digital media on disc.

New Toast 11 Titanium Pro ($149.99) adds:

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 9
• FotoMagico 3 RE
• Soundsoap 2 SE
• Sonicfire Pro
• HD/Blu-ray plug-in

What’s new in this version:

Version 11.0:

Capture

• New: Embedded and Detachable Media Browser Views
• New: Integrated Lightroom Library Browsing
• New: Capture sound from one app while ignoring pesky dings and beeps from other apps
• Improved: Browse and preview iTunes and iLife Libraries
• Improved: Extract clips from DVD-Video for use in Video and Convert projects
• Improved: Capture and restore music from LPs and Cassettes
• Improved: Capture streaming internet audio as you hear it

Copy

• New: Copy and preserve DVD subtitles when moving to iPad and iPhone
• Improved: One-click CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc copy

Convert

• New: DivX Plus HD Format Support
• New: MKV (Matroska) Format Support
• New: Create and Save Custom Video Profiles
• New: Faster H.264 video conversions for your iPad and more with VideoBoost
• New: Apply Audio Effects to Video projects using Audio Unit Plug-in
• New: Scheduled video conversion projects to run when you’re away from the computer
• New: Export to video for Adobe Flash (FLV and F4V) with HTML template
• Improved: Trim start and end points of video for the perfect clip
• Improved: Remove pesky unwated segments in the middle of video clips before export
• Improved: Convert a multitude of video formats for viewing on iPad, iPhone and Apple TV
• Improved: Broad selection of video presets for popular mobile devices
• Improved: Preview selected video quality settings in seconds
• Improved: Add Bookmarks to converted video for easy browsing to your favorite parts

Share

• New: Publish video directly to YouTube
• New: Publish video directly to Vimeo
• New: Publish video directly to FaceBook
• New: Automatically Tweet published YouTube video links

Burn

• New: Burn your Data, Audio, and Copy projects to multiple recorders at once
• New: Span Audio CD Projects Across Multiple Discs
• New: Playback High Defintion DVD-Video discs created with Toast on your Mac
• Improved: Automatically catalog the contents of your data discs for easy search and preview
• Improved: Schedule backups for burning directly to disc or network volumes
• Improved: Create DVD-Video discs with menus and chapters

Extras

• New: Embedded Video Tutorials to guide you through common tasks and projects
• New: Printable PDF document accompanying each video tutorial
• New: Redesigned user interface and improved workflow
• New: New in-application auto updater with reduced download sizes

There’s also a new iSight camera on board that’s quite similar to the version inside the iPhone 4S. It’s a five-megapixel, backside illuminated sensor with and a five element lens. It’s also capable of capturing 1080p video, which should come as no surprise. We’re also excited to see the keyboard sporting a brand new dictation key that lets you speak instead of type — yes, just like on Android. The new software inside will also let you use the slate as a portable WiFi hotspot… so long as the carriers are game.

Perhaps most exciting though, is the new connectivity options — you guessed, LTE! The new iPad is sporting 21Mbps HSPA+, but it’s also rocking an LTE radio capable of pulling down 73Mbps on both Verizon and AT&T here in the US. Outside of the states Rogers, Bell and Telus will also be scoring 4G flavors of the iOS tablet. Amazingly enough, even with an LTE antenna on board, Apple is still claiming to get 10 hours of battery life. That’s probably partially do to the slightly increased weight of 1.4lbs, though the 9.4mm thickness is nothing to sniff at.

The new iPad will be available March 16th, starting at $499 for the 16GB WiFi model and scaling up to $829 for the 64GB version with 4G. So, on the price front, nothing has changed. Pre-orders start today in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia, with much of the rest of the globe to follow on March 23rd.

Mac DVDRipper Pro allows you to copy all your DVDs on your Mac so you can easily view them without having to spend your battery on spinning you optical drive. Once ripped, you can then use software such as DVDRemaster, to convert your DVD for your iPod, or to burn them on single layer discs. Mac DVDRipper Pro analyzes the DVD and uses intelligent algorithms to ensure proper rips. It is the best at what it does, at an unbeatable price! Click here to buy it now for only $19.95

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Once on your hard drive, DVDs are much easier to manage. You can move, label, and group them like any other file!

New in v3.x

• On the fly compression in the mp4 format for your media player of choice
• Automatic selection of main movie for popular DVDs
• Ability to preset the default audio and subtitle track for main movie only rips
• Built-in database enabling faster ripping of popular DVDs

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 To replace all of your lower-bitrate songs in your library with higher-quality files from iTunes Match, use a Smart Playlist to replaces only those songs that are lower than 256-bit.

We tested the following instructions which were culled from various reader emails and it worked perfectly for us.

As always, backup your music first.

How to replace low bit rate tracks with higher quality tracks from iTunes Match:

1. Subscribe to and turn on iTunes Match

2. In iTunes on your Mac or PC, create a Smart Playlist (we named ours “Upgrade Bitrate”) that matches the following conditions:
– Bit rate is less than 256kbps
– Media Kind is Music.

3. Hold down the option while clicking the plus (+) button to add a third rule and set conditions to “any” rather than “all” with:
– iCloud Status is Matched
– iCloud Status is Purchased
You now have a Smart Playlist with all of the files in your iTunes Library that are upgradeable.

4. Select all the tracks in the playlist, hold down the Option key and press Delete. Tell iTunes to move the files to the trash, but do not check the checkbox that offers to delete them from iCloud. All the track information (artist, song titles, etc.) will remain in the playlist.

5. Select all of the tracks in the Smart Playlist, Control-click on the selection and choose to Download them. The 256kbps AAC versions will begin downloading from iCloud.

One of iCloud’s most anticipated and innovative features is finally live. Apple had announced that the iTunes match service would be functional by the end of October 2011, but missed the deadline by just under a half a month. Was it worth the wait? Is it worth the annual charge of $24.99 for a maximum of 25,000 songs? We put it through its paces to find out for you.

The iTunes Match is a piece of Apple’s iCloud online storage service that backs up all music in your iTunes library, whether you bought it from the iTunes Store (before or after DRM), ripped it from a disc, or acquired it from another online source. Match checks your music against Apple’s own huge stored library of over 20 million tunes, and if there’s a match, there’s no need to upload from your computer to the cloud. In fact, if Apple’s copy is of a higher fidelity than yours, you’ll get that better version in the bargain. Apple stores music as 256-Kbps AAC files (“iTunes Plus”).

Read more in the full article here.

The update is now available to all users through iTunes, and will also be made available for download as an over-the-air update. In addition to addressing battery life issues, it also brings new multi-touch gestures for multitasking to the first-generation iPad.

The full list of fixes in iOS 5.0.1, according to Apple, are:

• Fixes bugs affecting battery life
• Adds multitasking gestures for original iPad
• Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
• Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation

Apple provided its developer community with two betas of iOS 5.0.1, and both were released in rapid succession last week, just two days apart. The last build, released last Friday, was known as “9A404.”

The company worked quickly to address battery life concerns that were expressed by existing iPhone users who upgraded to iOS 5, as well as customers who bought the new iPhone 4S hardware. Apple publicly said the battery life bugs affected a small number of users.

In addition to the features listed above, pre-release builds of iOS 5 listed two more developer-centric updates available in the new version of the mobile operating system. They included security improvements, as well as a new way for developers to specify files that should remain on a device even in low storage situations.

Prior to issuing the iOS 5.0.1 update, Apple employees were actively working with some customers to diagnose the battery-related bugs as it worked on a fix. Some users were asked to install temporary diagnostic software on their iPhone so Apple could track their usage.