I’m sure many of us know someone in the military that has been called over to Iraq. Some of us might also know a few that bring along their tech devices like Xbox 360’s, computers, and iPods. How many of you know that iPods are used to assist soldiers in the line of duty? VCommunicator Mobile is filling that role for troops in the Middle East.

All signs point to iPod updates soon, all across the board.  Once again editors of popular tech websites/blogs have come out of the woodwork to complain about “features” that the iPod is “missing.”  Shut up Enough already.

With the release of the much anticipated game Spore around the corner Maxis, company behind Spore, has decided to whet players appetites by having Spore creator, Will Wright, stop in a London Apple store on September 3, 2008 to discuss the game.

Macs come preloaded with some very powerful software. Sadly, a great blogging client isn’t on the list. Sure, you can technically blog with Apple’s iWeb, but you have to have iDisk space to do it efficiently (formerly available via .Mac, now MobileMe). Many bloggers don’t want to be shackled to the Mac system like that.

BareBones software has updated its extremely popular HTML and text editor. Mac users are now able to purchase (or upgrade to) BBEdit 9.0. Included in the update are a host of new html and text editing goodies that are bound to make your web design and writing a lot easier.

It is common practice to pre-write the obituaries of celebrities. By having their job history, details of surviving family members and information about a lifetime of achievements pre written it makes it much easier to get the obituary out on time in the event of their death. Morbid, to be sure, but a necessary evil in the news business.

While I was working on my 17″ MacBook Pro yesterday I noticed that NetNewsWire had released a software update. I wasn’t expecting one so quickly since it had been updated last week. When users log onto NetNewsWire they are asked whether they would like to update their version to NetNewsWire 3.1.7b7/1237. Unlike the update that was rolled out last week, you won’t see too many changes within this update. According to the notes included with the install, the changes include an updated French localization from Corentin has been added.

Blizzard has done an excellent job looking out for the Mac gamers. There definitely not enough games available for the Mac. Mac users who like to get their gaming fix without resorting to Bootcamp, Parallels, or a Windows computer are able to get their game on (with their Mac) when playing games created by Blizzard. It’s true World of Warcraft, Diablo, or Stracraft are all Mac compatible.

It’s that time of the year again, kids are heading back to school or college and the Apple rumor mill is in full swing.  Nothing is certain at this point but given the history of the company, it may announce some new products in just over a weeks time.

If you were paying attention, reports from the Intel Developer Forum intrigued you. With talk of future concepts requiring some advanced capability not out yet, Intel could have been foreshadowing potential Mac hardware to come. With such ideas as 3-D movies, advanced intuitive human to machine interaction, Internet based TV and other consumer electronics taking center stage in the keynote, Apple and Intel may have big plans.