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 ...

Apple supports old version Because the transition to Java 1.4.1 represents an architectural change to the underlying Java implementation on Mac OS X, some technologies built on Java 1.3.1 will not ...

Apple today patched 15 vulnerabilities in three versions of Java used by Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard, bringing the operating system up to par with fixes that Sun issued a month ago. Today’s Leopard ...

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 ...

The Apple [AAPL] critics are dancing their dance once again today following news of a Java-based malware attack on Macs. But, given Java is the bad boy in the room, shouldn’t critics and Kool-Aid ...

If you still use Java on your Mac, these security fixes are considered critical. I think the author here is missing a major point: Oracle is not issuing security fixes to Mac users. The key difference ...

The day it acknowledged company-owned Macs had been hacked using a “drive-by” Java exploit, Apple on Tuesday patched the Oracle software for older systems and released a malware detection tool. The ...

Apple on Tuesday released the 2.0 version of its iAd producer software, as well as Java updates for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion users. The Cupertino, Calif., company first released iAd producer ...

The Java Developer’s Journal, in an article by Hitesh Seth, says Mac OS X and Java make an excellent team. The latest version of the Java 2 platform (J2SE v1.3) is preinstalled in every Mac that ships ...

Writing for Macworld UK, Jonny Evans reports from Sun’s JavaOne Conference in San Francisco with an interview with Apple’s Java product manager, Allen Denison. Denison’s comments come in an article ...

I was thinking of buying a Mac Pro not too long ago -- I'm glad I didn't take that route. Without a supported JVM, I can't really use a Mac for more than websurfing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apple has released a new Java update called Java for OS X 2013-005. According to the release notes, the update "delivers improved ...