Apple has finally released Java 6 for OSX: About Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the defau

Started looking at the new beta releases of Virtual Box (recently purchased by Sun Microsystems) and decided to give OpenSolaris a bash. So far this is looking very sweet - easy to use, fast to run - and best of all - free (I'm talking about Virtual

Ooo nice - it must be Apple Release Week - a new Java SE6 preview release - which can now be set as the primary VM. New features in this preview: AppleScript is a supported javax.script scripting language New API in com.apple.eawt.App

So Apple's got another antitrust lawsuit looming: For iPod users looking beyond the iTunes Store, there's the Amazon Mp3 Store. In some ways, in fact, the Amazon Store is more appealing than iTunes: all of their tracks are DRM-free and many are ch

I've just been watching the new Leopard Guided Tour from Apple and was impressed with the new desktop/screen sharing capabilities of iChat: Is it just me or does anyone else think this would rock for distributed pair programming, hell - this would

Standing there in the shower reflecting on the days passing I was struck with an interesting thought - what if Apple iTunes (along with EMI and everyone else doing DRM free MP3s now) released everything under Creative Commons? The initial license st

I just noticed on MacSlash that Sun now officially supports Glassfish under Mac OS/X - download the package from here. Rockin - now to download and give it bashing... <!-- technorati tags start -->Technorati Tags: apple, java<!-- technorat

Last week I got myself a nice shiny new black MacBook and so far am definitely in love with the machine and the OS - so much so that I've already fallen away from my open source ways and purchased a copy of XTorrent and Parallels. Unfortunately - as

Given that every man and his dog is writing about the Apple iPhone I wasn't planning on making any comments on it, but now that I see that the Cingular branding is being discontinued I'm wondering if we'll actually an iPhone with Cingular after all.

...so I just purchased the recently released Chris Caffery album Warped from the new iTunes NZ store to find one of the tracks ("State of the head") all corrupt and white-noise like. Grrrrr - enter my first ITMS support email. Hopefully the nice

Ok, so I'm being a little bit melodramatic here - iTMS NZ didn't break my iPod but ever since I signed up and purchased some music from the new store, my iPod's being having some weird experiences: Along with having this message pop up once tw

Finally!  The recently released iPod Updater 2006-01-10 finally fixes the long standing Smartplaylist bug which prevented the live updates of Smart Playlists on generation 4 iPods.  Woohoo!!! Finally my iPod is back to how I like it...

Note: The following is pure wild speculation and guess...Earlier in the year Apple launched iTunes 4.9 with support for podcasting, the support was somewhat flawed and reminiscient of an early beta product, but it worked.  It worked enough that

I noticed Scott Grayban posted to the ipodder-dev list that due to legal action from Apple over the use of the iPod name, the iPodder podcast aggregator is now known as Juice Receiver and that the linux version has been forked into its own project is

So Apples releasing "one more thing" early next week - what ever it is - I just wish they'd %(*&(*$#( release a new iPod firmware that returned the functionality of live smart playlists to the device.One of my main reasons for buying an

Grrr. Not content with having to rebuild my library twice, I booted iTunes this morning to find it importing my library again for a THIRD time. Thankfully I exported my library.xml file the other day which I'm now importing, hopefully this will m

Following last weeks release of Apple iTunes 5.0 I eagerly upgraded, only to find that iTunes crashed out whilst importing my library, so it decided to rebuild it.  That was ok, all the MP3s were still around, but lost were my podcast subscriptions.

Every man and his dog is talking about the new iTunes 4.9 release that supports podcasting, and as much as I love it, I have a few nitpicks already...

I've just been reading a "hands on" article about the MacMini over on MacCentral:And for those curious about hard drive space, fresh out of the box the 80GB hard drive has 67GB of free space with OS X and the included applications installed

So I spent the morning loitering amongst the Apple Mac laptops down at Harvey Norman, part of me felt like a young thirteen year old boy again (only then it was the local Amiga store), anyway - I've been thinking about a new machine for some time, mo