Apparently, today’s iPhone update isn’t all bad. Users are reporting unannounced (good) changes in their handsets despite the disabling of hacks (for now).

Your semester is fully into swing, you’re frittering away your free time and study time on Facebook, IM, and the local bar scene, and you’re probably ready for the next installment of the series designed to help you collegiates take full advantage of your Mac. Below are some intermediate tips and tricks for you Mac users that might come in handy.

Vista suffers another blow from its predecessor, Windows XP, as days after Microsoft offered XP downgrade option for Vista users, the company announced today that it will extend selling XP until the end of June 2008.

Microsoft has disclosed that in the coming holiday season TV sets may be used to view movies and Internet videos stored on computer running Windows Vista.

Afraid that website you just visited might harbor malware of some kind?  Fear not, with a new product from ZoneAlarm two of the most popular browsers become immune to almost any type of attack.

Microsoft has finally released pricing information for their updated office suite for Mac, and the numbers aren’t pretty: if you were hoping to jump on this forthcoming version, save your pennies, because the cheapest version is weighing in at a hefty $150 for a downsized student edition.

Microsoft has finally released another Vista Ultimate Extra, Windows DreamScene, but has delayed the release of 19 remaining language packs for another month.

Apple has put SIM unlockers on notice that they may be causing “irreparable” damage to their phones by hacking them.

As anticipation builds towards the now imminent release of Leopard, the next iteration of OS X, many users may be wondering if their technology can handle the powerful new OS. Apple just updated the recommended minimum system requirements for those considering an upgrade to Leopard, ruling out older 800 Mhz G4 Power PCs .

Microsoft may still be running behind the schedule that we had all hoped for but at least in this case it delivered on its promise to deliver Vista SP1 to testers before the end of the month.  Vista SP1 contains some notable improvements and it’s really too bad the rest of us can’t get our hands on it.

One of the perks of buying Vista Ultimate was supposed to be the ability to get extra features and services that users of lesser Vista editions would not be able to get.  “Ultimate Extra” add-ons were supposed to ship by the end of this summer, which has come and gone, Microsoft even missed its own self-imposed deadline leaving many wondering when or even if these features will be available.

I stumbled upon a very interesting web app while setting up a MockDock on my iPod Touch. It’s called SeeqPod.

It seems that Apple wants to enter the subnotebook and thin and light laptop market and it just might do so with the so-far rumored slim-line MacBook.

Almost no business on the planet is ready to deploy Vista on a large scale and some are not even looking at a small scale test, XP works, most people are happy with XP so Microsoft is offering a downgrade option to XP for some versions of Vista.

So you’ve got yourself a brand new iPod Touch and you need an iPod accessory to do this or that but you’re having a hard time finding accessories made for the iPod Touch. It happens with new iPod models, and that’s why there’s lists like the Touch accessories compatibility list.

So you like the iPhone, hate AT&T, and use T-Mobile thanks to some great hackers out on the net. Well, if something happens to your phone, it’s going to an uphill battle to get any service from Apple.

For those of you that remember the consumer complaints that were brought against Apple for defective G4 iBooks earlier this year, the Danish Consumer Complaints Board has finally reached a decision, ruling against Apple.

There is some information floating around out there that Apple is set to release a new line of MacBooks which would have an Aluminum case as opposed to the scratch prone cases of the current (non-Pro) MacBooks.

It seems that Microsoft is slipping on even its limited beta test phase as testers have not yet received any downloads or information regarding Vista SP1.  Many were expecting to have both Windows Server 2008 RC0 and Vista SP1 Beta by now but Microsoft isn’t saying much.

Vista is still lagging behind in XP when it comes to performance of the system, some would say general performance is affected as well but gaming performance takes a bigger hit.