The Miami, Florida-based Mac clone maker says it’s ready to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy and get back to battling Cupertino. The company, which is due back in court to face likely oblivion at the hands of Apple legal, is still full of fight and chutzpah.

Here’s a state that gets recession economics — train and innovative, and you’ll be ready for anything when the light at the end of the tunnel finally appears. Moreover, this is going to be a boon for third-party suppliers of all things Mac as the state gears up to put the portables into student and teacher hands come fall.

When I last looked over the open-source movement’s answer to iTunes, it was clear that in spite of a number of great features, it was also lacking in some significant ways. Now, a few of those caveats have been addressed, so it’s time to look again at this surprisingly thoughtful and functional jukebox application.

Like everything else on the fairer platform, configuring your Mac to require a password to wake from sleep or turn off the screensaver is really easy and it just works. Also, with the aid of a free utility, you can configure a security hot key (aka the Vulcan death grip) combination.

The hunt for the “iPod touch on steroids”—aka Mac touch, Mac tablet—has fans, bloggers and the media seeking out any scrap of information, real or imagined, about the seemingly mythical device. Although serious analysts and pundits do believe Apple will release a touch-input portable computer, its size, shape and interface all remain cloaked in secrecy.

Although it would have been fun, Steve Jobs didn’t reappear today, let alone demonstrate the new Mac touch (aka iPod touch on steroids) while skydiving via a live webcast. But, Apple’s recent relative generosity continues with the announcement of fleshy specifics for the Mac OS X 10.6 Up-to-Date program.

A regular part of the marketing of any new version of the operating system isn’t complete until the mothership clearly states its upgrade policy for new Mac buyers. Oddly, Apple has posted only a few details along with a cryptic note to tune in tomorrow. What’s up with that?

When it comes to Web browsers for Apple’s Macintosh computers, there are a lot more choices out there than you may realize, including at least four Mozilla-based and, would you believe it, seven WebKit-based products. And, that’s just the beginning!

The system requirements are fairly steep to support H.264 hardware acceleration or play in Apple’s OpenCL sandbox. As you might expect, the great majority of Mac users won’t be able to take advantage of either of these breakthrough technologies.

Tweeting a photo that has already been uploaded to the web is as easy as right clicking (control clicking) to get that image’s address, then just pasting that into your Twitter client (browser window) and then you may tweet at will, or willfully, as the case may be.