Apple has released iTunes 7.5 and QuickTime 7.3 updates that is available for Software Update. The updates apply to both Mac OS X and Windows.

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If you need some basic Photoshop type image editing, have no money and little disk space you might want to give Splashup a try. Splashup is a pretty impressive web-based image editor with many of the your usual features like resizing, cropping, and some basic effects like sharpening, blurring, and pixelizing. But there are also some pretty advanced color controls and you an even use layered effects. You can even capture an images from a webcam.

Splashup runs in Flash that should work with any web browser on any operating system. Worked great on my MacBook Pro in Safari (Leopard users may need to update Flash to version 9).

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In response to coalition of consumer groups and scholars that include the Free Press, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union (publishers of Consumer Reports), Media Access Project, Public Knowledge and professors at Yale, Harvard and Stanford law schools that urged the FCC to crack down on Comcast’s traffic shaping, the company issued the following statement:

Comcast does not, has not, and will not block any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services, and no one has demonstrated otherwise. We engage in reasonable network management to provide all of our customers with a good Internet experience, and we do so consistently with FCC policy.

As the FCC noted in its policy statement in 2005, all of the principles to encourage broadband deployment and preserve the nature of the Internet are ‘subject to reasonable network management.’ The Commission clearly recognized that network management is necessary by ISPs for the good of all customers.

Nobody has said Comcast blocks content, but that they “degrade” and slow traffic. The Comcast lawyers, who are very well aware the FCC’s network neutrality policy statement [PDF] (which IS NOT LAW) is, as you might expect, intentionally vague enough to allow anything but an outright content or service blockade. So Comcast can continue to insist that they were not violating network neutrality.

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Ambrosia has releases updates for two of their popular applications for Leopard compatibility. Snapz Pro 2.1.2 and WireTap Studio 1.01 updates.

Apple has released software updates for the newer 20-inch and 24-inch iMac models with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8GHz processors iMac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard. This is a fix for these Macs that have experienced freezing.

iMac Software Update 1.3 (Leopard) and iMac Software Update 1.2 (Tiger) are available from Software Update or from Apple’s Web site.

Apple has released MacBook Pro Software Update 1.2 designed to improve graphics stability for the 2.2GHz and 2.4GHz MacBook Pros running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Software Update 1.2 is available through Software Update, or as a download at the Apple Support Web site.

Now at Wal-Mart, the Everex gPC TC2502 with a 1.5 GHz processor, 512 MB of memory and an 80 GB hard drive running a modified version of Ubuntu, called gOS. Licensed from Google, gOS comes with free applications like Firefox and easy access to many Google services: Search, Calendar, Docs, Blogger, YouTube. All the web, media, and office software you’ll need is included for only $199.

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FileMaker has issued version 9.0v2 for FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced updates that fixes some Leopard issues, but is recommended for all users.

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Apple has quietly upgraded the MacBook and MacBook Pro. The updated MacBook, still available in white or black are now based on the Intel Santa Rosa platform (like the recent MacBook Pro) and run on a faster 800MHz system bus in addition to using faster GMA X3100 integrated graphics, which add improved hardware 3D acceleration with a slight increase in processor speed from 2.16GHz to 2.2GHz for the mid-range $1,299 and high-end $1,499 models. Apple has added a build-to-order option of a 250GB, 5400RPM hard disk.

The MacBook Pro features now includes a $250 option for a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo on all 2.4GHz models. The faster 250GB hard disk is also an option for all 15-inch and 17-inch systems, the update notes.