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 ...

When Oracle released its Java Update 11 earlier this week, it patched several zero-day exploits that security researchers had previously identified. Nevertheless, a number of firms still recommended ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2. Java SE consists of a virtual machine, which must be used to run Java programs, together with a set of libraries (or "packages") ...

Days after the Department of Homeland Security said computer users should remove the latest versions of its Java software, Oracle Corp. says it has fixed the flaw, in a new update released Monday. As ...

Java is one of those OOPs based languages, along with Python and C++, that’s in demand right now. So, if you want to ride the bandwagon and use the language, you must download it on your system. Not ...

Last month, I wrote about how Microsoft told its users to update Java or kill it. This week, a new 0-day vulnerability in Sun’s software is pushing security companies to do the same, with one ...

While we’re on the subject of improving Firefox performance (see yesterday’s post on clearing the Downloads list), let’s talk about old, outdated Java Consoles. Java, of course, is the programming ...

Adobe Flash and Java are two downloads most of us have installed on our Windows computers, as they give us a richer internet and browsing experience. We have already seen how to manage Adobe Flash ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_03. Java SE consists of a virtual machine, which must be used to run Java programs, together with a set of libraries (or ...