updates

Software

Magic Mouse Drivers For Windows Now Available

6:00AM Chris Jacob | Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol’ fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Boot Camp update. You can grab them here, report back with results. [Uneasy Silence, thanks Dan!]
Gadgets

Amazon Preparing Better Kindle Ebook Management System In 2010

5:26AM Sean Fallon | Specifics have not been announced, but Amazon noted via their Kindle Facebook page that a more user-friendly, organised ebook management system will arrive as an over-the-air update in the first half of 2010. More »
Software

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Available Nov. 24

4:33AM Mark Wilson | Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 will be available worldwide on November 24. Note that Power Pack 3 will be a free update to anyone already using Windows Home Server through Windows Update. [Windows Home Server Blog]
Games

PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.10 Adds Facebook Today

10:03PM Danny Allen | How’s this for a quick turn around. Facebook integration for the Cross Media Bar interface was only confirmed on Monday, but it arrives today with firmware 3.10 — a day after the Xbox 360 added Twitter and Last.fm. Watch the preview… More »
Games

Reminder: Xbox 360 Twitter, Last.fm And Zune Video Live Today

1:33AM John Herrman | Today is the day, people! The day that your Xbox 360 will prompt you for a dashboard update, so you can awkwardly Twitter from your console and listen to Last.fm radio! And a few more things. More »
Games

Facebook Continues Ruthless Attack On Gadgets By Conquering PS3

8:10PM Dan Nosowitz | Facebook is goddamn everywhere. It’s on my phone, my computer, my Xbox 360 and even my alarm clock. And now, the PS3 3.10 update allows it to take root in the PS3, just like we thought. More »
Entertainment

Foxtel’s New Channels Launch On Sunday

2:30PM Nick Broughall | Remember Foxtel subscribers: all your shiny new channels, including a heap of HD stuff, will be available for you to watch from Sunday. Also launching are the new iSuggest and Record Me functions for iQ and iQ2 users. Which all means that from next week we’ll probably all be watching a lot more TV… [Foxtel]
Phones

Why Firmware Updates For Verizon’s Droids Would Be Good News

12:28AM Danny Allen | Verizon’s Moto Droid and HTC Droid Eris phones have only just landed in people’s hands, but what look to be leaked Verizon documents suggest the carrier is tracking a long list of bugs for a potential December 11 over-the-air fix. More »
Software

Mac OS X 10.6.2 Update Missing Atom Support, Breaks Hackintosh

12:03PM Rosa Golijan | If you’re using a Hackintosh then you might want to wait before upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6.2 because for all the bug fixes it brings, it lacks the Intel Atom support necessary for our beloved Hackintoshes. 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 »