Patches Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Plunderland, Death Rally, Bunny the Zombie Slayer get iOS updates

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2011)

Three great iOS games got big updates this week. First up, the excellent and popular pirate simulator Plunderland got a whole new campaign to play through with new graphics, new sounds, new enemies to fight and new weapons to play with. The app is US$2.99, and it's well worth the purchase -- ...

While store customers get Halloween patches, Apple's retail VP cleans up

by Michael Rose (Nov 1st, 2010)

File under "Awww": Children visiting the Bellevue, WA Apple Store on Halloween were treated to collectible instant-stick logo patches, says iPhone Savior. The patches ran out pretty quickly, but they were popular while they lasted. Patches are certainly nice keepsakes, but if you want to talk real ...

Microsoft Office rolls up to 12.1.7, trial edition downloadable

by Michael Rose (Apr 15th, 2009)

There's an update in town, and it's all about locking it down: the 12.1.7 update to Microsoft Office 2008 (available within the suite via the software update tool, or downloadable from Microsoft) closes two security holes present in multiple versions of Microsoft Excel and first acknowledged by the ...

Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera raw 4.4.1 released

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2008)

Adobe has dropped updates for both Lightroom and Camera Raw. According to the Lightroom team's blog, the updates include all the changes of the previous releases, but also correct a few issues. Lightroom 1.4.1 will keep the EXIF time date field of images from being incorrectly modified, and has ...

Apple TV USB hard drive patch has arrived!

by David Chartier (Jul 28th, 2007)

We are very pleased to report that Apple TV Hacks has published the long-anticipated USB hard drive hack for the Apple TV, allowing users to plug in an external hard drive to overcome the device's disappointing storage limitations. As with any hacks of this nature, however, the same 'hacker beware' ...

World of Warcraft Mac client adds builtin movie capture

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2007)

Some of you might already know that I do some other blogging work on another Weblogs, Inc. blog called WoW Insider, all about World of Warcraft, the MMORPG videogame. Most gaming companies tend to shy away from the Mac, but Blizzard has always been the exception. And with World of Warcraft, there ...