Thursday afternoon, The Apple Store lopped $500 of the price of the 64 GB Solid State Drive Version of the MacBook Air and also halved the price of upgrading the Air from a 1.6GHz processor to a 1.8GHz processor on hard drive equipped machine from $200 to $100

Why hack? Because Apple products are configured to be the most useful and convenient for the average user, and who's average? With over 100 software and hardware hacks described, and many more smaller tips and tricks, there is plenty in this book from which one can pick and choose. The selection is wide- ranging and eclectic, so most anyone should be able to find hacks they will want to try

• Why OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Should Leave PowerPC In The Cold
• Solid State Drives Eat Battery Life, Don't Save It For Later
• The SSD Power Consumption Hoax : Flash SSDs Don't Improve Your Notebook Battery Runtime – they Reduce It
• Ultrathin showdown: Apple MacBook Air vs. Lenovo ThinkPad X300 vs. Toshiba Portege R500
• MacBook Air vs. Voodoo Envy 133 - Clash of World's Thinnest Notebooks
• "syslogd" process taking 100% CPU under Mac OS X 10.5.4
• No, not now, stop
• Turn Your Old Mac into a Website Server with Free Open Source Software
• Steve Jobs, Others Accused Of Fraud - Stock Options Nightmare Continues
• Jobs And Apple Board Fingered In Backdating Civil Lawsuit
• Apple, Jobs, Others Sued Again Over Options
• Beware the Coming of the Mac
• Retouching Eyes in Photoshop
• Microsoft Taking Another Run At Yahoo!
• Acer punts £199... er... £220... er... Linux laptop
• Asus readies iMac attack with all-in-one Eee
• Good Conclusion to 2 Years of Frustration with Apple in Saudi Arabia
• Is Email In Danger?
• A new section on Apple's iTunes U contains a wealth of free online content for K-12 educators
• Online Community for FileMaker Enthusiasts
• The Mac Night Owl: Another Look at the 10.6 Value Equation

• Apple iPhone May Have Poisonous Bite For Canuck Consumers
The iPhone's Cross-border Price Clash
What's Going To Power Small, Cheap Computers?
Samsung to reduce NAND flash supply in July amid Apple orders
Apple, AT&T Try to Plug a Hole in iPhone Revenue
Make your iPhone Virtual Keyboard Look Like It's MacBook Air

Another New iCab beta (available to registered users) with more bugfixes and enhancements - little indie iCab just keeps quietly getting better and better, adding to its already amazingly deep complement of useful and powerful features

No matter which Mac you own, this SlimKey seems to be designed and made for it. While serving as a keyboard's tuckaway, its slim and flat profile is so surprisingly versatile, you can use it with any Mac

Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files

The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents (and the technology the Mac OS X Finder is based on), is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems Incorporated, original developer and copyright owner of the format, to relinquish control to ISO, who is now in charge of publishing the specifications for the current version (1.7) and for updating and developing future versions

Lemke Software announces the immediate availability of GraphicConverter 6.1.1, their image editing and conversion utility for Mac OS X. GraphicConverter is the ultimate tool for image editing, image browsing, metadata editing, slideshows, image conversion from more than 200 file formats and much more. Version 6.1.1 includes many bug fixes and little enhancements and is a recommended update for all customers

The SeaMonkey project has released a new version of its all-in-one internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.9 closes several security fixes

"Make your iPhone as unique as you are - with an endless supply of custom ringtones..." Information Appliance Associates announces the release of the PocketMac RingtoneStudio for iPhone, a new tool that gives iPhone users the power to convert almost any media file on their Macs into a ringtone. PocketMac RingtoneStudio works with sound files, iTunes tracks you own, and any Mac-friendly movie formats to produce ringtones that can then be automatically synched to an iPhone

Educators, students and lifelong learners alike can now access free content from INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications, as INTELECOM joins a growing number of educational institutions and content providers on iTunes U ( http://www.apple.com/itunesu/ )

Desinformado announces their Desinformado Technology and Lifestyle Newsletter, a pdf based newsletter about technology, gadgets, mobile phones and Mac related news that will be downloadable every month from Desinformado and other technology blogs

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere

• Browsers Back-To-Back
• Using Two OS X Versions And Two New Browsers Back-To-Back
• Dialup. Oh, the pain!
• Bible Software For Switcher
• Yes; Running System Maintenance Routines Really Can Help - OS X Odyssey 857

Mac's share nearly doubles in past two years

• 17-inch MacBook Pro Is A Thing To Behold
• The Mac Future: Snow Leopard, MobileMe, and the iPhone/iPod touch
• Mac Pro Overclocking Tool Developed
• SanDisk Sansa Clip a Low Cost Alternative to iPods for Mac Users
• Apple's fourth Leopard spits out 25 patches
• Inside the OS X 10.5.4 update
• Mac OS X 10.5.4 Makes Reliability And Security The Main Issues
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Apple's Secret Business Weapon?
• One more Firefox 2 version is out the door
• AOL Increasing Dial-Up Fees
• Why Canada Sucks For Gadget Lovers
• What's the Mac-centric Message in 'Wall-E'?
• Bill Gates Has Gone, What's His Legacy?
• Macs To Be Promoted In Corporate Environments Managed With Windows
• Apple files trademark suit against iPod repair company
• Making Desktop Linux Work For Business
• 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3
• The Mac Night Owl: The Day After the 10.5.4 Update

• Owning an iPhone 3G will Cost More Than iPhone 2G
• AT&T offers new option of iPhone without contract
• How Apple Is Blurring The Line Between Marketing And Service
• AT&T iPhone Pricing: The Good, The Bad And The Complicated
• Canadians Continue Feeling Rogered By Rogers' iPhone Plans
• How To Hand-down Your Old iPhone After Upgrading To iPhone 3G
• Apple Spurns Intel, For Now
• AT&T memos detail iPhone 3G unbricking tool, crowd planning, more...
• New and old AT&T iPhone Plans Compared, Cost Increases Detailed
• Moving to iPhone 3G: A Guide For Current And Non-current AT&T Customers

First-Class CaseCruzer Carry-On Pelican Laptop Case provides both peace of mind and style for professionals whose genius takes flight in a MacBook

Download - and run "that" windows application on OS X. These are unofficial builds of Darwine. Darwine is the OS X flavour of Wine