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Phones
The Real Reason The Droid’s Camera Fixed Itself
2:41AM Adam Frucci | When the Droid was shipped, it was plagued with a lousy autofocus bug. But then, it magically seemed to fix itself. Did Verizon secretly update all the phones from afar? Nope. The explanation is much weirder than that. More »
Phones
Motorola Droid Experiencing Software-Related Speaker Issues
5:30AM Jack Loftus | Droid sales are blowing up, but so too may be Droid speakers, as reports are starting to pour in from users who’ve experienced the sound cutting out at inopportune times. Island of Misfit Toys, here we come! More »
Software
Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Fixes Account-Nuking Bug (And About 40 More)
6:58AM John Herrman | OS X 10.6.2 is out, and it’s a veritable bug-squashing party. That infamous glitch that was destroying user accounts a while ago has been taken care of, as have a few dozen other annoyances. But whither our sweet Hackintosh? More »
Software
Apple TV 3.01 Update Stops Data From “Temporarily Disappearing”
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Word to the wise: Update your Apple TV to 3.01 stat, else suffer the strange data disappearing act some users report is happening with 3.0 during syncing. It’s important to note the data was not deleted, just invisible. More »
Hardware
Intel Promises To Stop Its Firmware Bricking SSDs
11:00AM Rosa Golijan | A few weeks ago, Intel pulled a firmware update the day after it came out because many users running 64-bit Windows 7 found that it bricked their SSDs. Whoops. The good news though is that Intel has acknowledged and replicated the bug, and is working on a fix. The bad news? There’s no timeline for when the fix will come out. [Reg Hardware]
Cameras
Canon 7D’s Continuous Mode May Retain Ghost Images
10:39AM Dan Nosowitz | In continuous mode, Canon’s 7D DSLR sometimes carries over ghost images from the previous shot, which sounds kinda cool but probably isn’t cool at all to serious photogs. Canon should offer a fix via firmware upgrade soon. [Cameratown via Crunchgear]
Software
Microsoft Acknowledges Problems With Win7 Student Ed. Upgrades
9:47AM Chris Jacob | If you’ve been eyeing the downloadable student edition upgrade of Windows 7 with that sweet, sweet $US29/AU$50 price, you might want to hold off. Microsoft has acknowledged that downloads from Digital River, the provider of student edition upgrades, are experiencing problems. More »
Software
Google Street View Driver Doomed To Map Hell For All Of Eternity
2:20AM John Herrman | After careening into a wall outside of Rankin, PA, one Street View photographer has been trapped and condemned to send dispatches from a horrifying hellscape, forever. This is the highly empirical theory that the internet, and I, am sticking with. More »
Software
OS X 10.6.2 Beta Addresses Hard Drive Killing Bug
11:31PM Chris Jacob | We know that Apple is aware of the data-annihilating Guest Account bug in Snow Leopard, and it looks like a fix is on the way. The latest 10.6.2 beta seeded to developers specifically addresses the issue, and throws in a few other tweaks for good measure. If you’re staring at that Guest Account on the login screen with fear and loathing, sit tight. Hopefully this will all be resolved soon. [9to5 Mac]
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