Security Update 2004-06-07 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:
DiskImages, LaunchServices, Safari, Terminal.
Mac OS X will now present an approval alert when an application is to be run for the first time either by opening a document or clicking on a URL related to the application.

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Apple launch AirPort Express. It's a traveling mini airport basestation that plugs directly into a socket for sharing a single broadband connection (up to 54Mbps). The device also has a USB socket for wireless printing and a sound output for connecting to a stereo. Using what looks like an iTunes plug-in called AirTunes, you can wirelessly stream music from your Mac. And it's only £99! Ummmm. My old 1st Gen Graphite BaseStation is showing it's age now. Goddammit! Sucked in again! That's something else I might have to buy. Curse you Apple!

Christopher Breen and Adam Engst have discovered that you can access the music files on your iPod using the Omniweb browser. Just drag the iPod icon onto the browser window. See this US MacWorld Mac 911 Weblog for the whole story.

European iTunes Music Store to launch next week! Apple have sent out invites for a special music event for the press and media on the 15th. The invite reads: 'The biggest story in music is about to get bigger'. Hopefully it won't be the launch of a bigger iPod. Think of all those free downloads and iMixing we've been missing out on.

Airport Extreme Driver Update. This software update provides improved AirPort Extreme wireless networking software and is recommended for all customers with an AirPort Extreme enabled computer. It enhances networking reliability during certain memory intensive operations.

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Some helpful chap at a printers has leaked some sexy internal close-ups of a (supposedly) new G5. They're from a future service manual. It must be pretty fast - just look at the size of that heatsink! SeeAppleInsider

One-Handed Typists Rejoice! The FrogPad is a mobile keypad with a innovative 20 full-size key layout optimized around the most frequently used characters. The reckon it's quite easy to get used to. The bluetooth version can be used with PDA, PCs, mobiles phones and they all come in a variety of colours, there are also left and right hand versions. Why not type as you, er... pick your nose?

MacMinute: Toshiba drive paves the way for 60GB iPod It Looks like a 60GB iPod could be on the cards in the next upgrade. Toshiba have upped the capacity of the 1.8inch drive used in the 'thin, white duke'.

Even more .Mac Treats!: "The stream of .Mac updates continues with a new support site and a brand new learning center. Also, check out our latest member benefit: a free download from O'Reilly Publishing!"

Apple Euro music license win signals mid-June launch? | The Register. This story says that Apple have secured the music deals it needs to launch the iTunes Music Store over here. Some worry that they may have been a smidgen too late because of last week's launch of Napster. But considering most of Napster's music is encoded as Windows Media Audio (.wma), they should have nothing to worry about. These files don't play on iPods unless you convert them to either .m4a, .mp3, AIFF or WAV files (which can lead to a deterioration of sound quality).