iTunes 4.5 is out! Download, and enjoy.

Just when you thought the days of computer terminals were over, HP decides to release blade PCs. According to News.com, "HP says this approach reduces support costs, boosts productivity and helps protect data." Funny, I thought there was all sorts of software to do that with regular desktop PCs.

AOL is a dinosaur too, but starting tomorrow AOL email will be accessible via IMAP email clients. This is groundbreaking in the "you should have done this 5 years ago" sense.

Internet Explorer Is a Dinosaur--Dump It. Well, duh! We've been saying that since Phoenix 0.4.

RealNetworks seeks musical alliance with Apple. I can certainly understand why Real is looking for help. What I don't get is which part of their crappy-malware-infested software would actually be of benefit to Apple.

Speaking of iPods, a Yahoo! News story says that Apple sold more iPods than Mac computers this quarter. The times, they are a' changin'.

This is what IceBurrg needs in his family-friendly Ford Escape: a custom iPod mount.

Here's a security alert for the anti-Windows crowd: "Stanford, along with a large number of research institutions and high performance computing centers, has become a target for some sophisticated Linux and Solaris attacks. ... The attacker appears to be deliberately targetting machines in academic and high performance computing environments, rather than attacking systems indiscriminately." Let's all chant the mantra: No Computer Is Safe (tm).

Lo and behold, Gimp.app is up to version 2.0.0-5. That makes sense... I just put -4 on my laptop this morning. Now that I'm actually using Gimp on a regular basis, I found out in the README file how to make X11 change the focus of windows by following the mouse (making it much easier to use Gimp). There have been some PSD files that Gimp didn't fully understand, but otherwise I'm very pleased with how it works.

A new CERT Cyber Security Alert says that Microsoft Windows' HTML Help system (which uses IE, of course) can be commanded to pull up a virus programmers' "help files," which help take over the machine. This vulnerability effects IE, Outlook Express and Outlook. Good ole' Microsoft -- even the help system can be compromised. Thanks, Slashdot!

Not that anyone cares, but Episode III release date is set. Yawn

According to Coming Soon!, "John Woo has optioned Nintendo's best-selling video game franchise Metroid for the big screen, says The Hollywood Reporter." I love Metroid, but I am dreading this film. "I want to take this Metroid.... off....!"

Version 2.0.0-2 of Gimp.app for Mac OS X has been released. Download, and enjoy.

Looks like it's going to be a Mac OS X News day! Next up, U of IL launches iTunes Recomendation Site. Thanks to Macslash for the great news.

It's still not as good as TBE, but Mac OS X Hints posted a link to an applescript that "takes all the open browser windows and consolidates them into one tabbed window." Nifty!

Neat hack for anyone interested. Found this one on DVDRHELP. I just ordered a new Dell that has a NEC dvd burner sold as just an + r/ +/rw burner by flashing the firmware @ The Dangerous Brothers Present.... opened the ability to burn -/r -/rw discs. Pretty cool it apppears NEC put out the same hardware with different firmware flashes so they could charge different price points. If you happen to have the ND2100A or ND2100A give it a shot/ I also saw one for the ND1100A.

There's a new Apple OS X security update out (2004-04-05 10.3.3). It fixes a couple of security issues in CUPS, libxml2, Mail, and OpenSSL. As usual it will fix these holes and make signifigant unadvertised changes to all of your important applications. Who wants to guess what app gets fixed behind the scenes on this one? My vote is for Safari...

It is about time Star Wars Trilogy on DVD finally a little satisfaction from the Lucas universe. Anybody know if these will be original cuts or those special remastered ones they did a few years ago?