Please include your past experience and backround with Macs in your email as well.

Apple has released 2 security updates for Leopard. Available for Leopard, Tiger and it's server equivalents, Security Update 2009-001 contains 28 security fixes, full description here. Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 3 resolves multiple vulnerabilities in Java Web Start and Java Plug-in. Full description here. Both updates can be installed via Software Update or via the Apple website, download page.

The small and lightweight PhotoGPS attaches the photos taken on a camera with the information of the place from which it was taken such as country, city etc. The PhotoGPS appliation was only available for Windows users but now they have made it compatible for Mac users and iPhoto '09.

Via SlashGear

Via: ModMyI

Computer users the world over know what it’s like to buy a new computer which runs very fast when new, only to see it progressively slow down over time. The extent to which it slows down depends on various factors related to both hardware and software and ideally each computer would have to be examined in it’s own right to determine exactly where the problem lies.

It’s safe to say though that it is recommended that one carry out regular maintenance on a computer in the same way that you might carry out maintenance on a car which is in regular use. The more you use your computer, and the more data you accumulate, the more often you may need to carry out maintenance.

Appleinsider has learned that Snow Leopard will include tools that allow developers to write applications that can find your location, on your Mac, using the tools that were originally found in the iPhone SDK.

This new feature will allow applications to find your location and adapt to the location that you are currently situated, e.g it could switch your network profiles when you get to work and change them when you get home so you keep everything separate.

Since Macs don't have a GPS chip to utilize, the CoreLocation framework will use a Macs currently connected network to pin-point your location, similar to the original iPhone.

If anyone had been getting excited that the shipping date of their shiny new 17" Macbook Pro was approaching, its time to check your E-Mail because here comes a buzz kill.

An E-Mail sent out to all Apple customers who pre-ordered the new Macbook Pro states that they are having delays in "wrapping up the Macbook Pro" and the shipping date has been moved back to February 19th.

AppleInsider and most Mac news websites are reporting that Apple and French mobile network operator Orange (owned by France Telecom) have lost an appeal challenging an earlier ruling of the Competition Council which prevents Apple from offering the iPhone in France exclusively through Orange.

Apple and Orange plan to appeal the Appeals Court ruling with the Cour de Cassation, the highest court in France. According to AppleInsider, rival telecoms firm Bouygues Telecom are already in negotiations with Apple to sell the iPhone through their own channels.

According to Macosrumors.com Apple’s ‘alpha’ version of Mac OS X 10.5.7 is nearing ‘beta’ phase, when it will be seeded to developers to test for bugs. Macosrumors has had some time with the ‘alpha’ version and reports that there are no visual changes to OS X but that all the changes are under the skin, mostly bug fixes.

Apple has just released new updates for their iLife Suite, they are availible for download through software update or the Apple Download Section of their website.

The Keynote Update brings it to version 4.0.4 and updates compatibility issues with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2008 as well as the other usual compatibility updates with other formats.

Although the social networking service “Twitter” has been around for some time now, I personally had never shown an interest in it, not having realised the benefits thereof,  and I suspect there may be many readers out there who still have no interest in Twitter.

Another Apple Cloning hardware company based in Germany has emerged bearing the name of "HyperMegaNet UG" who have begun to sell machines labeled as: "PearC" many would be thinking that its just "another" cloner, but these machines really pack a punch.

For those of you that often check for Apple updates using software update you may have noticed something different this time, there's actually updates to download.

Apple has released an iDVD Update and an iLife Media Browser Update. The iDVD update addresses stability and minor issues while the iLife Media browser Update also address stability it is recommended for all users running: Aperture, iLife 08, iWork 08 and OSX 10.5.6 or Later.

iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update

This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

• Improved general stability of Safari
• Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll

The Windows 7 Beta download was to be terminated by the 24th of January but if anyone has missed out due to overdoing their internet cap then today is your lucky day.

Microsoft has decided to increase its download time for the Windows 7 Beta from the 24th of January to the 10th of February.

Some people who just couldn't wait to get their hands on the new iWork 09 and decided to go walk abouts on those "sites" so that they could get a pirate copy may have downloaded more than they expected.

The pirate copy's of iWork 09 may have contained a Trojan Horse which pose's itself as iWorkServices and also boots during startup, it broadcasts your Mac online and allows a remote user to connect without your knowledge and do what ever they see fit to your system. Made even worse considering that you gave it root access when you entered your Administrator password during installation so it can install additional applications as well as made changes to your current ones.

Apple has just released an update for its Quicktime Application and if you havn't yet downloaded it, you can download it simply by running the Software Update on your Mac and check Quicktime and hit install and you'll be good to go.

This update provides improved Audio and Video Support with Improved quality in single-pass H.264 encoding and improved reliability of playing back motion JPEG media.

Apple has just updated its entry level White Macbook to include the Nvidia 9400M graphics chip more recently found in the Aluminum Macbooks.

The Macbook only has the single processor speed option of 2Ghz but the Front Side Bus has been updated to 1066Mhz, the Ram however is still using DDR2 and not the newer DDR3 standard found in the later models.

For the first time in the lifespan of iWork buying the retail boxed set of iWork 09 from Apple or one of its resellers does not require you to enter a license key when you first start any of the included applications.

Normally buying the box set will include the serial number and the installation CD but not anymore as all the retail copies are already "activated". The trial download copies however still require the use of a serial number which can be bought online and E-Mailed to you to enter directly into any of the Pages, Numbers or Keynote. Its that simple.

For those that are using the new Unibody 15" Macbook Pro and just can't get to terms with the glossy screen, there is now a solution from "Techrestore".

They offer a 24-Hour turn around on all laptops sent to them so you will have your Macbook Pro back before you know it. They replace the entire LCD screen with a new Matte screen and replace the bezel that surround the screen with a Matte version similar to the ones found on the Black Macbook's to match the new screen.

Youtube has started to offer its users downloadable videos using a link under the video labeled "Click to download" the link isn't as widespread through the site as many would hope but is likely to include more videos in future.

A Chinese blog has written about Apple developing a 15" Macbook Air with more details coming halfway through the year.

The website states that a 15" Macbook Air will make a stunning ultra-portable for the older computer users with poor eyesight and the low voltage "Core 2" architecture is perfect for the addition.

Apple released an Advertisement in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today announcing that the App store has just reached a download record of 500 Million Applications downloaded.

The court case between Joel Tenenbaum and the RIAA for allegedly downloading copyrighted material is to be streamed live over the internet for all to see.

Joel Tenenbaum originally tried to settle the case with $500 instead of the 3,500 that the RIAA wanted if they were to settle out of court and they refused, after the case landed in court, he tried again to settle, this time with $5000 but RIAA had upped it to $10,500. When the law professor Charles Nesson and his students became involved things got interesting.

They have requested that the case be streamed live over the internet and while the RIAA is againsed this, the judge has approved it anyway. Finding it curious that the RIAA would want to keep something like this quiet as the threat of a lawsuit is generally enough to stop most people from downloading.

The new official portrait of President Obama has just been taken and released. It is the first Official portrait ver to be taken using a digital camera. It was taken by the official White House photographer Pete Souza.

The camera used was a Canon 5D Mark II taken at 5:38pm last night and without a flash. The full details on the photo can be found by using "Get Info" on the photo or further details can be found by opening the photo and pressing Command-I.

Google Maps has has just added an additional layer into its mapping technology "Google Maps" which adds bus, ferry, train routes plus more and are available on both the Satellite and Terrain maps:

Steve jobs has decided to take a leave of absence for health related reasons and that his health condition which he spoke about in his last letter is more complex than he first anticipated. Tim Cook will be looking after the day to day activities at Apple, he ran Apple once before while Steve Jobs was undergoing surgery to remove the cancer from his pancreas.
Since the release of this letter the Apple Stock Price as dropped 8%. The full letter which he E-Mailed to all Apple employees is as follows:

Skyhook wireless, the provider of the first Wi-Fi positioning system and the hybrid location system XPS has just upgraded their SDK to include support for the Android OS. The platform support includes Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac, Android, Symbian, Linux and Maemo.

A well known software engineer has reported a flaw in the RSS reader of Safari which affects all users of OS X Leopard wether you use RSS feeds or not.

Psystar now claims that all the OS X licenses that they have purchased from various resellers and Apple are legally able to be resold by Psystar and doesn't need Apple's permission to re-sell the software.

Wikipedia has started upgrading its servers with more storage space and server capabilities all with the money that was donated to fund this very thing. They are increasing upload limits, video and music limits.

Wikipedia at the beginning of 2008 had a mere 2TB of storage space to store the millions of pages of data that users contributed to the site and have bumped the storage space up considerably, to 24TB and 48TB. Upload limits have also been raised from the old 50MB limit to 100MB. Currently Wikipedia is using 5TB of the 48TB of storage they currently have.

Even though Apple has moved most of it's library away from the clutches of DRM, the E-Mail account that you used when you signed up to the iTunes store will be embedded into the downloaded song when you view the ID3 info using "Get Info" on the selected songs.

The previous iTunes Plus did the same thing and discourages releasing your freshly downloaded music onto the internet as it all comes back to your E-mail address linked to your iTunes account which is linked to your Credit card.

Via: Gizmodo

According to a research report done at Harvard university, performing two simple Google searches generates the same amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as boiling water on your stove.

The organization behind organizing CES are planning to dedicate an area of the show specifically tailored towards “Apple Release Consumer Manufacturers. Apple, Inc has not released a press statement or commented on the rumors that they will be attending.

A company known for creating touch screen solutions for the Mac has announced that they now offer the 24" LED Cinema Display in touch screen configuration. Its end pricing solution is $2299.

While many manufacturers have tried to build laptops that come close to the weight and thickness of the Macbook Air, MSI comes pretty darn close with their new X-Slim series netbook which they unveiled last week at CES.

The X-Slim X320 weighs in at 1.3Kg, running on a Intel Atom CPU clocked at 1.33Ghz and a 13.4" LCD Screen. The X320 will come in two different CPU versions, one will ship with an Intel Atom CPU aimed at under $1000 and the other will ship with an Intel Pentium CPU which will me priced over $1000.

The first person shooter "Bio-Shock" available on the Xbox 360 and the PC is soon to be released onto the Macintosh system, so users currently playing it through bootcamp can rejoice and play the game natively alongside all your current apps.

A user at Macworld.co.uk who attended the Macworld Expo found that at the Feral interactives booth they were wearing the "Big Daddy" character on the back of their t-shirts. He found that the first person shooter is indeed coming to the Macintosh platform, confirmed by the Feral Interactives representatives.

The bluesn0w GUI version has just been released. It makes use of the iPhone's bluetooth and with this new release you can find other devices within range of the iPhone, which was not previously permitted by Apple. SweetTooth now brings you this functionality.

To know more about the project and to get a download link visit: ibluetoothproject

They have promised that in the future releases you will be able to see new features such as sending and receiving files using the iPhone's bluetooth. You should have cydia installed to use it.

The amount of people who were rushing in to download the new beta of Windows 7 was substantial enough for even Microsoft's servers to grind to a halt under the demand.

Because of the first few days of downloading didn't go so great, coupled with the demand of the Beta, Microsoft has decided to extend the availability of the Beta on their servers until the 24th of January so if you havn't got in there yet you still have time, after the 24th of January you will need to find other sources for your beta.

Enough with the 128GB and 256GB solid state drives that are currently for sale, prepare for the monster of a drive: The 1TB Solid State from Puresilicon.

The drive is a 2.5" drive so it can be used in most laptops as standard, but the new thing about this drive is, its ultra thin, you can store 4 of these drives in the same space that it takes to store a single 3.5" desktop hard drive.

With Apple no longer attending Macworld there are rumors at Appleinsider that Apple will be moving its presence to CES with the larger companies attending and speaking Apple is likely to draw more attention to itself in the comparison between Microsoft and itself.

So far one of the most spoken about features of Apples new upcoming iLife 09 suite has been revolved around iPhoto 09 with its geo-tagging feature and its ability to organize all of your photos depending on the location and country that they were taken. If you have a GPS enabled camera or you take the photos with an iPhone that has the GPS feature enabled.

Got a need for a Quick free Whopper at Burger King? Simple, just sacrifice 10 of your facebook friends using Burger Kings “Whopper Sacrifice” facebook app and your Whopper fantasies will come to life.

The development of USB 2.0 was a phenomenal breakthrough in Hi-Speed technology and has been the transfer standard in thousands of devices with USB standard and almost every computer comes with built in USB ports with plug and play and hot-plugging and now there will be a new standard, USB 3.0.

Almost every family conscience company offers some way to give parents a way of controlling the content that their children view on computers, tv and video content. Now those companies, 36 to be exact are being targeted for infringing on patents that were already in place about 20 years ago to control who can view certain content.

The Windows 7 Beta was released today with Microsoft Promising the first 2.5 Million people who downloaded the Beta product keys to activate the product so that it does not lock you out after 30 days.

After the beta was released Microsoft was surprised at the large volume of customers and their interest in the Windows 7 Beta that Microsofts servers were temporaraly sent offline due to the huge spike in traffic and the download servers are currently offline while Microsoft adds more servers to handle the demand.

Venturebeat has reported on Googles new way to globe-trot using Google Earth and a hacked Nintendo Wii Balance board, associated with the game “Wii Fit” which they used at Macworld to demonstrate the ways to control Google Earth.

A Google engineer was able to use a Javascript Google Earth API and the Google Earth Browser Plugin to allow the balance board to communicate and control the program, after he had decoded the Bluetooth data that was being wirelessly sent from the Balance Board. By doing this they were able to navigate by leaning forward and back, left and right.

According to ZDNet, the next hardware revision of the iPhone is to include a quad core processor and that the firmware version 3.0 of the iPhone will require users to own a 4-Core iPhone.

Currently the iPhone has the processing power of Sonys handheld gaming console the PSP and an upgraded version of the iPhone with a portable quad core CPU will bring high end portable graphics into reality.

Early next month Skype plans to release a large update to its PC client making video conferencing the main point in the Version 4.0 release. Skype has already released beta version of Skype for the Google Android and are already planning to bring cheap phone calls to the Apple iPhone in the future.

The new Version 4.0 has been in the beta testing stage for the last few months and is due for release sometime in February. The Mac version is due sometime during the year. The latest beta for Mac is currently version 2.8.

The new update supports 30 frames per second during video calls if the users have fast enough connections and also includes new audio and video codecs to give a smoother and clearer calling experience.

The Virtualization software Parallels Desktop 4 which allows you to run more than one operating system at the same time as OSX has just been updated to build number 3810.

The new update includes Windows DirectX 9 Support with Shader Model 2 as well as experimental support for running the New Windows 7 beta as well as Apples Upcoming Snow Leopard for those lucky few who have a copy of the new system.

With the 2009 Macworld expo slowly drawing to a close, it comes a time where we need to look back and say "What really stood out from the crowd?" Luckily for those of you who didn't attend the Macworld conference Macworld.com have complied their yearly list of the Best of show products with quick rundowns and explanations of the products, overall it has been very well done.

A patent Application filed by Apple in July 2007 shows that Apple is planning to move the iSight camera entirely, away from the top of the screen to the middle of the display, with a catch. It will be hidden behind the LCD display.

Don't you just hate it when this happens, you buy something new and then they release a new, better faster version of the software that was installed and to get the latest and greatest you have to pay full price? Don't worry Apple still looks out for you.

At Apples latest Keynote presented by Phil Schiller, Apple annouced that because the latest iLife requires Leopard to run, they will be releasing a Box Set containing OSX Leopard, iLife 09 and iWork 09.

The box set will be shipping in Late January to Early February when iLife 09 is released.

The Single User Version will Cost $169US and the Family Pack which lets you install it on up to 5 Macs will be priced at: $229US

At Apples Macworld keynote Schiller went over the pricing plan changes that the iTunes Store was due to go over including DRM-Free music downloads.

Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI are all offering their music in iTunes Plus in a DRM-Free format at the high quality 256 kbps AAC.

The iPhone can now download items from the iTunes Music Store from both Wi-Fi networks the 3G Cellular networks, perfect for the globetrotters who are not close to a computer and just heard their new favourite song on the radio.

You can choose from the Millions of DRM-Free songs that are now available on iTunes Plus and pay the same price as you do on your computer.

All the downloads from the iTunes store are high quality and no matter where you are, as long as you have 3G coverage you can browse the iTunes store the same way you do as if you had a Wi-Fi connection, have a look at the top songs or albums or just cruise through the recently added and buy single songs or buy the whole album, play previews of the songs before you buy them and buy tap it again to buy it, its that easy.

The latest version of Skype's computer to computer calling service has just being released. The Skype Version 2.8 is still in beta but boasts additional new features that to some the new features are worth the use of beta software.

The beta software that comes out of the Skype labs is usually bug free but being that it is still in beta there is the possibility that you could run into software glitches on your system.

Screen Sharing: You can finally show the person you are talking to exactly what you mean with screen sharing built right into skype.

Apple today Announced their new suite of iLife products containing its, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, Garageband and iDVD applications with some new and interesting features. Although iLife 09 wont be shipping until late January 09, Apple has provided lists and explanations of the new features on their web-site.

Today is a great day. In a few hours, the Macworld will be start. Thousands of people are waiting in front of the Macworld building. If you‘re not able to visit the Macworld, you are now on the right place.

Sevenmac will keep you up-to-date with new pictures, news, new products and all-around the Macworld live!

Google Yesterday released its public beta for Picasa 3, the search engines photo organization program for OSX available for immediate download from Googles Website.

Picasa, similar to Apples iPhoto offers the ability to upload photos directly into your picasa web albums should you have one so you can share photos with your friends and family as well as being able to upload photos directly to your blogger account is an added bonus.

Home office in the UK has just granted permission to allow the Police to hack into people PC's without a court issued warrent. While the home office is facing legal threats and anger from the public after granting the police permission to hack users, Ministers are creating plan that aim to allow Police over the European Union to collect information from PC users in Britain.

For those of you who will be attending the Macworld conference and you happen to have an iPhone then the iMacWorld App is a must have for you.

The Free App is available from the iTunes store here. And has everything you need to find out what's going on at Macworld, as well as when and where the exhibitions are being put on.

Search for exhibitions by name, hall, aisle booth number and the map location and find the products being released by name, the company releasing it and category.

Amazon has already added Snow Leopard, with a release date of the First of July, however the date is probably not correct and Amazon is looking to draw customers in for when Snow Leopard is finally released hopefully sometime this year.

Sources at AppleInsider have been able to confirm that as of Tuesday at Macworld Apple will introduce the long awaited 17" Unibody Version of the Macbook Pro product line.

In a move that has surprised some, the 17" Model has been reported not to use a removable battery pack like the ones found in the 13" and 15" Macbook's, but instead use a non-removable battery much like the one found in the Macbook Air.

The Crew over at OFB has found that AT&T has been downgrading its EDGE/2G services to the weaker 1900MHz band.

The 2G service was using the 850Mhz band which was far superior to the 1900Mhz which is currently being employed at AT&T. The 850Mhz band provided a higher coverage area and improved signal strength indoors and in rural areas. Yep this includes you users of the original iPhone which doesn't have the 3G capabilities of the current version will have a decreased signal strength if you are on the AT&T network, unless you upgrade to the 3G version.

The rumors over at 9to5Mac are reporting that at Macworld they they introduce the long awaited Unibody upgrade to the 17" Macbook Pro, only with a slim, non-removable battery with a longer run-time than the current Macbook models. Much like the iPods and iPhones battery is built into the machine.

They also expect that they will phase out the production of the 13" Macbook White model which could lower the price of the low-end Aluminum Macbook closer to the $1000 mark.

Via: 9to5mac

Softbank has released its 1-Seg TV Tuner for the iPhone so you can watch live broadcasts of your favourite tv shows on the move, the Tuner also provides its own battery for the extra power it requires to receive the TV signals and send it to the iPhone.

Unfortunatly the entire program is written in Japanese, including its manual and there are no other available language translations so finding the program in the Apple store is quite difficult using this link takes you directly to the application.

Googles Voice search iPhone Application "Google Mobile" which lets you do web-searches by using your voice, has a hidden menu called "Bells and Whistles" which they hid so cleverly into the application that no-one managed to find it so they wrote about it in their blog.

To get to the new Bells and Whistles section open up the settings page in the Google App and scroll down to the part where it says "About" then keep swiping your finger upwards, which can take a few attempts, if you just can't manage to do it, just keep trying and soon enough a new menu option will appear.

The iControlPad which gives the iPhone physical buttons designed for the use of gaming, is now moving into the production lines.

The iControl pad gives the user a "PSP Style" gaming experience, only with an iPhone instead. You slip your iphone into the case and it connects to the dock connector which allows the use of physical buttons to play games instead of using the touchscreen.

When the iPhone unlock "yellowsn0w" was released it worked for some people and not for others. Some users had problems with phones that used STK (Sim Toolkit) menus and had to remove their simcards and reinsert them after the phones bootup otherwise they couldn't use them, this has been fixed for some users using the latest software, others will still need to remove their sim card during the phones bootup.

The yellowsn0w software has been updated to help users that couldn't unlock their phones successfully, the current version number is 0.9.5 and is still a beta version so there is a few bugs which could affect you. See the iPhone Dev teams blog for further details.

Banners have already started to appear at the Moscone Center where the Macworld Expo will be held. Five Banners are already visible at about 18 Meters long and covered in white cloth concealing their contents until Tuesday when the event is scheduled to start.

The Wikimedia foundation which brings you Wikipedia has raised enough funds through user donations to continue running the free information service until the end of June which they announced on Friday.

They launched their fundraiser in November 2008 and over 125,000 donors have taken part in the fundraiser and Wikimedia has already received just over $6 Million which the company will use to maintain its servers and cover the bandwidth costs.

Ecamm Network has announced its BT-1 Bluetooth Webcam which is the first of its kind. Ecamm says that the device was built for Mac OS X compatibility.

The Bluetooth webcam streams video to your Mac in H.264 quality at a resolution of 640 x 480 and ACC audio at 48kHz.

The device is said to work with iChat and Skype according to Ecamm and includes a tripod to stand it on as well as a USB cable to charge the webcams internal battery.

The BT-1 Webcam will cost $149.99 when it's shipped in March this year but Ecamm are planning to preview the webcam at the upcoming Macworld on Tuesday.

Media monitoring company Nielsen SoundScan has released an article relating to the drop in physical music media. They claim that physical sales of media such as CD's has dropped by a massive 20% in one year from 449.2 million sales to 360.6 million.

Nielsen SoundScan added that the steepest decrease came during fall where they expect an increase due to music being given as gifts. Possible reasoning to this fell into the delays of major music albums being released at the end of the year.

Every month “Net Applications” publish statistics regarding access rates to various advertisement based web-sites. They then use these statistics to calculate the market share of operating systems and browsers that were usedto access the pages.

The Apple Mac Mini which if rumors are true will be updated an release on Tuesday at Macworld. There has been plenty of discussion and rumors on what people would like to see in the new mini and what it could possibly look like.

So far it has been made out that the Mac Mini will use the same materials as the new Macbook. Black plastic and aluminum, it will also supposedly support a second hard drive at the loss of the internal optical drive. This being possible due to the drive being moved to a SATA interface.

The iPhone Dev Team has releases it's long awaited unlock for the 3G iPhone. Unlocking the phone allows it to be used anywhere in the world with any sim card, without it being locked to a specific network i.e. AT&T.

The unlock has been named "yellowsn0w" and is released as a beta version, there is still some bugs to work out but the dev team has reported that there are hundred of reports of successful unlocks flooding in.

The unlock requires the iPhone software update 2.2 so before you attempt the unlock make sure you have updated to the 2.2 software.

The Californian Apple store in Palo Alto was broken into early on Sunday morning and the theives managed to get away with over $10,000 of equipment.

The police have reported on the break-in saying that the alarm was triggered at the University Avenue store at 4:11am by breaking a glass front door and they then proceeded to steal 6 laptops and 2 iPhones.

9to5mac is claiming that apples next iWork Suite will be a set of Web Applications similar to Googles Document and Spreadsheet Applications, which means that any future of these applications will be browser based.

When Apple turned Address Book and Mail into web-based applications through the release of MobileMe it became obvious that Apple had the technology to create web-based applications after they used the SproutCore framework in MobileMe.

Sources at TUAW are confident that Apple will release a new Mac Mini at the upcoming Macworld but are still not sure on the finer details such as its dimensions but they are aware of some other changes to the Mini.

The Mac Mini will carry on the new designs found in the Unibody Macbook Line using Black Plastic and Aluminuim. It will have a "lip" like the one found on the Time Capsule and the optical bay will be hidden behind the lip. The lip also doubles as the cooling system so the vents at the back of the mini are no longer needed.

Users of the 30GB Microsoft Zune have been struck with what it seems to be a bug of sorts that has caused Zunes all over the world to suddenly crash and stop working.

Users have reported that the problem occurs as the Zunes Internal clock reaches 12am on the 31st December where the screen simply shows a loading bar at the bottom of the screen and nothing seems to be responsive.

According to TechCrunch Apple has been developing a device similar to the iPod Touch, only this time with a bigger screen, up to 7" or 9". They claim to have 3 sources close to Apple who have seen prototypes of the new device and Apple is talking with companies in Asia about mass-producing the devices.

The rumors surrounding Steve Jobs health started when Apple mysteriously announced that they would not be attending any more Macworld conferences, Apple stated the Macworld trade-show was only a small part of how they reach their customers and they would use their Apple Stores and Apple.com website which worldwide over 3.5 Million people visit everyday.

Although this made sense it was also announced that Steve Jobs wouldn't be making the Keynote presentation at the 2009 Macworld and would instead be replaced by Philip Schiller one of Apples marketing executives. Why wouldn't Steve Jobs be speaking at the 2009 Macworld? Steve's speech making abilities are legendary, thousands upon thousands flock to San Francisco every year to see what Steve had in-store for them.

Some of the users who had waited a very long time for Apple to ship them their $99 Dual-DVI adapter have been having some glitches and technical difficulties just getting a smooth image on the external display.

There are already growing threads in Apples Discussion forums relating to this problem and some users are having difficulties with Apples own 30" Cinema Display so there isn't a Non-Apple Hardware compatibility problem here, as they worked perfectly without the new adapter.

Maintain's Software for OSX Optimization is on sale for 1/3 of the price they normally charge for a software license, thats a massive 66% off. Be in quick though this deal ends on the 1st January 2009 at 12am GMT.

Cocktail has the ability to run maintenance and optimization of your system and files. You are givin additional abilites to tweak your system to your hearts content, where you can customize the look and features of Finder, Dock Exposé and other system settings. You can also modify hidden features in Address Book, Disc Utility, iTunes, Mail, Remote Desktop, Terminal and Backup. For a full list of features see Maintain website. You can also clean and optimize your system at the press of a single button using the programs "Pilot" option.

The well known iPhone case manufacturer Vaja has now added an iPhone Nano category to its website, although no pictures were added to compare the possible sizes between the rumored Nano and the iPhone 3G.

These manufacturers gain a huge financial advantage by releasing protective cases on the day of product launches. As of yet they have not stipulated on when they plan to release the product but if the rumors on the iPhone Nano are accurate it could possibly be sometime around Macworld 2009.

On the manufacturers website you can fill in your details here. So that when the new case is released you'll be one of the first to know.

Via: Macrumors.com

Economic Daily News has come out and said that for Apples new iMac that could possibly be released at next years Macworld, Quanta will not be producing the iMacs but instead it will be Foxconn Producing the companies single case design iMac.

They are also planning to add a newer cooling system into the iMac but many of you will be wondering, the iMac is already silent, why does it need a better cooling system?

HP introduced the MediaSmart Server on Monday which is aimed for the backup conscience home users works with both Macs and PC's

The server runs on a Windows Home Server base system and gives users the option to set up automated file backups from any computer attached to the network.

Because of the rumors that surrounded Wal-Mart selling an iPhone for $99 didn't pull through. The phone provider AT&T has decided to pick up the slack.

They will sell refurbished 8GB iPhone 3G for $99 on a two year contract, or you can buy refurbished 16GB iPhone 3G in Black or White for $199 on a two year contract.

Head over to the AT&T web-site and enter your post code and see if you qualify for the refurb deals. Also if you make the purchase before the 31/12/08 you can save another $50

They will also be supplying a 90-Day warranty on all the refurbished iPhones sold.

The Mac OS X Operating system has been designed to be one of the most secure and stable operating systems on the planet, it does this by automatically running maintenance scripts late at night when you are not using your computer, because of these scripts and the way that the system is designed, it assumes that you never shut-down your system and because these scripts are not being run while your system is powered off, everything that the scripts are designed to clean out don't get deleted and just clog up your system and slow it down. Through out this I will go through each of the scripts, what they do, how to start them from the Terminal as well as programs that can automatically perform those maintenance scripts for you.

Photos have emerged from Thailand showing that there are already iPhone Nano Clones on the Market.

The fake iPhone Nanos are built smaller than the current iPhone 3G and when powered on the menu is extremely similar to the Genuine iPhone and some icons are even direct copies. The clones also feature an Apple logo printed on the back of the phone and are around twenty-percent smaller than the current iPhone 3G.