Welcome back to another "app-tacular" Wednesday edition of the overnight recap, which finds a host of your favorite Mac and iOS apps getting updates big and small. Need a faster browser to read MacLife.com? Opera has a new Retina-friendly beta just for you. Troubled by iTunes Match? SuperSync 5 might be able to cure what ails you. It's all right here in one convenient place, so read on!
If Safari, Chrome and Firefox aren't cutting it, you've probably wandered into the loving arms of Opera by now. If that's the case, the company has a new Opera 12.10 beta available this week which promises to offer "a big boost of speed and better compatibility across websites," while also adding support for the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Of course, no beta release would be complete without OS X Mountain Lion support, and Opera 12.10 has it, including that big cat's built-in share functionality as well as pushing notifications from the browser to Notification Center. It's all available on the Opera website, but be forewarned: This is a test version, so you may experience some bugs. The update is available in both 32- and 64-bit versions, so be sure to download the correct one.
If you have any Adobe products installed on your Mac, you may be seeing a familiar icon on your menu bar this morning. As noted on the company's Lightroom Journal, a new update to Camera Raw 7.2 is now available as a final release for users of the company's photographic products, which includes Lightroom as well as Photoshop CS6 and even Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. The update brings additional Camera Raw support for 22 new cameras, lens profile support and also squashes bugs introduced with the previous version. A separate DNG Converter 7.2 update is also available for customers of previous versions of Photoshop.
Developers have responded quickly to the new screen size of the iPhone 5 with iOS 6-compatible updates that have been coming fast and furious since last month's announcement. This week, SHAPE released version 7.3 updates to the free IM+ and paid IM+ Pro instant messaging apps for just that purpose, which also add a message queue for times when the network is not available. Meanwhile, call management app YouMail has also been updated for the iPhone 5, adding in-app, numberless messaging to any of the company's three million registered users across iOS, Android and BlackBerry without even dialing a number.
SuperSync has announced the availability of its fifth version in as many years, and the company appears focused on not letting Apple's iTunes Match service make its product obsolete. Like iTunes Match, SuperSync aims to keep iTunes in sync between Mac and PC computers as well as iPhones, iPods and iPads. Unlike Cupertino's all-or-nothing approach, SuperSync 5 promises to let users decide how to upgrade their tracks to the highest bit rate possible, remove iCloud duplicates and even get more matches. Playlists can also be synchronized even faster with only a click. Current owners can nab the upgrade for free, while pricing for new users starts as only $22.95 for a two-pack license, with five- and 10-pack licenses also available.
We love retro games here at MacLife.com, which is why we get excited about tidbits like this one. TouchArcade is reporting that Sega has let slip a preview of a Zaxxon reboot for mobile devices. Zaxxon, you may recall, was Sega's 1982 arcade shooter that required plenty of skill to fly and dodge at the same time you were shooting. Sega appears to be confused about what to call the rebooted game, which it refers to as both Zaxxon Escape and Escape from Zaxxon. Either way, the initial preview ominously appears to deviate from the original version -- a mistake we hope the company will correct before this thing gets shipped.
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