Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

A small degree of panic set in amongst the Java development community over the weekend, as Apple announced that they were “de-emphasizing” Java on the Mac OS. Being the Big Java Geek that I am, I ...

Solution from Britannica support team Some readers have noted that they are unable to access the Encyclopaedia Britannica Web site after applying the Java 1.4.1 Update 1. The Britannica support team ...

Apple has finally released a Java for Mac update to fix multiple security flaws that were patched upstream more than six months ago. The fix comes three weeks after developers released ...

Apple has released a Java patch for its aging Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system. The release comes on the heels of the sweeping Java software security update released by owner Oracle Corp.

Altogether Apple repaired a total of 27 bugs for Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 and 23 for Tiger Mac OS X 10.4. Two of the vulnerabilities specific to Leopard were considered critical, allowing hackers to ...