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Security Update 2004-01-26
..."delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:
Apache 1.3
Classic
Mail
Safari
Windows File Sharing.
Additionally, Security Update 2003-12-19 has been incorporated into this security update. Those components are:
AFP Server
ASN.1 Decoding for PKI
cd9660.util
Directory Services
fetchmail
fs_usage
rsync
System Initialization."

AirPort Software Update!
"This software update provides improved AirPort wireless networking software, and is recommended for all users with an AirPort Extreme and AirPort enabled computer or an AirPort Extreme base station.

New AirPort Extreme Features:
This software provides support for the Wi-Fi Protected Access™ (WPA) specification for the AirPort Extreme base station and AirPort Extreme and AirPort clients. Please see AirPort Help for more information on WPA. Also included in this release is v5.3 of the AirPort Extreme base station firmware. Instructions for updating the base station firmware can also be found in AirPort Help."

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY APPLE MACINTOSH!

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One thing I missed from the MacWorld Keynote a fortnight ago is that the album printing service with iPhoto will be available in Europe from March. At Last! How long did we have to wait for that one?

If you read a recent Apple press release, you'd already know that Apple has struck a deal with Hewlett Packard to allow them to make and sell iPod clones. They will share the same look and insides as the Apple iPod (they even show an Apple on the screen when rebooting), but they'll be blue and sport the HP badge (no not the brown sauce). This is the first time Apple has done anything like this since the days of Mac Clones. Hopefully this deal will be more fruitful. It's time HP used a different endline (see below).

So it seems that iLife 4 has brought an end to every Mac OS X user's free iRide. From now on, the only iApp you'll get for nowt is iTunes. iMovie and iPhoto will now cost because they'll only be part of the full iLife package (or free when you buy a new Mac). I don't care because I been waiting for Apple to release a music program for home use since they bought Emagic. It was inevitable. £40 (the price for iLife 4) is a good price to pay for a sound app of this sort and I'm expecting it for my birthday next month. If my wife picked up on the unsubtle hint, that is. All I want to do is leave the big bad world of advertising, have a number one hit and then live the rest of my life somewhere hot. Please?

iCal 1.5.2 Update!
..."gives you the option of viewing your calendar, event, or To Do information in a drawer or in a separate window, and includes a number of performance and reliability enhancements."
But doesn't it do that already? What do I know?

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Replacement iPod batteries cost £79, MacWorld reports.

Best quote from MacWorld Webcast:
"If someone tells you 'Hey. Get a life!', say 'I've got a life - iLife'."

Apple Launch teenie iPod Mini during Jobs' keynote at the San Fran MacWorld Expo. It's only 3.6 inches high and sports a 4GB drive that holds around a thousand songs. You can buy one in silver, gold (Bling!), blue, pink, and green (could this signal a return to flavoured iMacs?) which come with a variety of additional accessories; Griffin have brought out a very tasty microphone. The iPod Mini is only available in the States at the moment for $249 and will be available worldwide from April. The 10 GB iPod has been replaced by 15GBs.

iLife has also been spruced up for '04. Budding musicians can now flex their creative muscles with GarageBand, "The first studio-quality tool anyone — from novices to pros — can use to make music."