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Search, Aperture 3 & CAD

Friday, 19 February 2010

Microsoft's union with Yahoo blessed for search: The U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission on Thursday both unconditionally approved Microsoft and Yahoo’s plan to work together in the field of Internet search for ten years.

Aperture lights up the forums as a memory hog; solution offered: When it comes to newly released Aperture 3, online support forums have been lighting up with reports of massive virtual memory leaks in the program.
The premise behind such a leak is simple: when doing a data-intensive task that might be too much for the RAM installed in your computer, the program (in this case, Aperture 3) can call on bits of your hard drive to be appropriated as virtual memory. The problem here is that for whatever reason, Aperture doesn't know where to stop, and ends up gobbling every last byte of free space on the disk.
Apple declined to comment on the issue, but users in the Support and Discussion forums have come to several different conclusions over what processes may cause these particular system slowdowns, reports MacWorld.
Later, MacNN reported Apple has posted workaround instructions for a problem in upgrading to Aperture 3. The photo workflow software may quit unexpectedly on launch, or after entering an Aperture 3 upgrade serial number. 
The temporary solution is to move two files -- "Aperture System ID" and "ProAppsSystemID" -- out of the /Library/Application Support/ProApps directory on a Mac, and then launch Aperture to enter new and previous serial numbers. After the upgrade is authorized, the relocated files can be deleted.

SolidWorks 3D CAD coming native to Mac: SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray has announced that the company's 3D CAD software will be coming to the Mac platform as a native application. The executive, speaking at SolidWorks World 2010, revealed a newer version of SolidWorks running on a Mac, reportedly with an interface much different than current versions for Windows, according to Desktop Engineering.

Google Buzz makes changes to satisfy privacy concerns: Google is quickly making changes to its new social networking service Buzz — built on the back of its popular Gmail service — as a complaint to federal regulators follows a populist privacy backlash over the past week, reports Wired.