Snow Leopard nears completion
Apple has told developers that the Snow Leopard beta released over the weekend contains the last changes that will be made in programming methodology before the release of the new operating system.
Apple has told developers that the Snow Leopard beta released over the weekend contains the last changes that will be made in programming methodology before the release of the new operating system.
With the U.S. FTC investigating the sharing of a director between Google and Apple, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has spoken out saying there is no harm in the situation.

From the next-generation Macintosh operating system system department we’ve got good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?
Apple apparently has more confidence than you would normally see in a recession like this one. A research report says they are doubling iPhone production in advance of the release of new models.
It’s repeated so often that it has become mantra—there two things in the world you don’t want to know how they are made—laws and sausages. Perhaps we can now ad iPods to that list.
At the same time that a wide variety of desktop hardware updates were announced today, Apple also heralded the improvement of the Airport Extreme and the Time Capsule.
Not quite as fast as a speeding bullet and a good deal less stable than Britney after a bottle of dilaudids (don’t you miss gratuitously ‘dissing her?), here’s a fresh, off label build of Chrome for Mac that’s more usable than the 9750 version fouling up the torrents.
A third-party, entry-level Mac tablet has inherited the 5X graphics performance boost of the GeFore 9400M upgrade, as well as a fast and able 1066MHz front side bus, which Apple recently added to its least expensive MacBook.
One of the best (free) things ever to happen on the fairer platform just gained three sweet new features—one of which is sure to be a boon to your underseas prospecting efforts. And, what’s up with Apple’s unnumbered Pages, Keynote and Numbers updates?
The usual bunch of bug fixes and stability enhancements are included along with Safari and Mail issues. Also, previous security patches are included in this release.