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  • Firefox 1.5 update released

    The Mozilla Foundation on Wednesday released an update for Firefox 1.5 that provides greater stability and security.

  • Apple adds features to Safari browser

    The company updates the test version of its new Web browser as part of its efforts to distance its software environment from Microsoft's.

  • Google plans Picasa beta for Mac

    Google plans shortly to release a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloguing and uploading photos.

  • VMware Fusion beta for Macs goes public

    VMware has made available a public beta of its desktop product that lets Windows operating systems run in a virtualised environment on Mac OS X.

  • Skype releases beta for Mac OS X

    Skype has released a beta version of its latest client for Mac OS X users.

Blogs (5)

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Ubuntu can't cut geek support umbilical

    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Nobody protects Macs, not even Steve Jobs

    Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Don't bother upgrading to Entourage 2008

    If you're considering an upgrade to Entourage 2008, think again -- for some reason, Microsoft hasn't bothered to add some vital functions that are critical to making Apple Mac systems welcome on any Exchange network.

  • Confessions of a naked Mac user

    I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Other shoe still hasn't dropped for Boot Camp

    There were some interesting responses to my analysis piece last week about Apple's new Boot Camp Windows-on-Mac software, but all the evidence still points in one direction...

Features and Case Studies (31)

  • Windows 7 beta: We like it

    Windows 7 will be one of Microsoft's greatest operating systems, if it fulfils the promise shown by the unofficial beta version we have been testing for the past couple of days.

  • FAQ: Windows on a Mac

    There are some strings attached to running Microsoft's OS on a Mac -- including Windows security risks, Apple says.

  • Free OpenOffice for Mac users

    Sun Microsystems has released the first beta of OpenOffice, the open-source sibling of its StarOffice package, for Mac OS X computers.

  • How a Windows guy learned to love the Mac

    A Windows-dependent columnist uses an iMac for all computing needs for a month to prove a point and ends up a fan. How and why?

  • Ubuntu as slick as Win7, Mac OS X

    There's no doubt that Ubuntu is a worthy rival to Windows 7 and even hands Mac OS X a cold dish of nasty in its stellar 9.04 release. Hats off to Mark Shuttleworth and his team: you got game.

Reviews (110)

  • Apple Boot Camp (beta)

    Apple gives the people what they want: Windows on Macs. Geeks proved it could be done through a variety of complicated hacks and now Apple makes it a breeze with a free download. We take Boot Camp for a test run.

  • Apple adds features to Safari browser

    The company updates the test version of its new Web browser as part of its efforts to distance its software environment from Microsoft's.

  • Skype releases beta for Mac OS X

    Skype has released a beta version of its latest client for Mac OS X users.

  • Chrome (beta)

    Google has rethought the Internet browser some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.

  • Lotus Notes/Domino 8, Beta 2

    In version 8 of IBM/Lotus's upcoming collaboration suite, the client (Notes) moves to a new Java framework while the server (Domino) gets a number of overdue enhancements.

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