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Apple takes over CUPS, Unix printing software

Apple has acquired the source code for CUPS, an open-source project for managing printing on Unix and Linux systems. Read more »

Apple's Tiger and Leopard get patched up

31 new security fixes are available for Mac OS X. Read more »

Apple recalls overheating batteries

Apple Computer is recalling about 28,000 batteries that shipped this year in its PowerBook G4 portable computers. Read more »

Apple's Tiger makes some companies growl

Now that Tiger is out of the bag, some Mac software makers say the new cat doesn't play well with others. Read more »

Adobe program rivals Apple's Aperture

Adobe Systems has launched a test version of Mac software that is seen as a rival to a professional photo program that Apple Computer launched last year. Read more »

Adobe to take wraps off Creative Suite 3

Adobe Systems has launched Creative Suite 3, a showcase for the company's merger with rival Macromedia that is designed to smoothly combine Web design with content creation. Read more »

Fedora 10's snapshot scramble begins

The Fedora Project has updated the 'beta' or testing edition of version 10 of its Linux distribution, which is scheduled to be completed and released to the public on 25 November. Read more »

Samba 3.2 adds cluster support

The Samba project on Tuesday released a major update to the file and print components of the server software, adding clustered file system support, compatibility improvements and other changes. Read more »

Font-purging software kills lawsuit threat

Publishing giant Faber & Faber is wiping away the chance of costly lawsuits by using software to purge unlicensed fonts. Read more »

XP SP3 makes Vista SP1 a laughing stock

New tests have revealed that XP with the beta SP3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with the long awaited SP1. Read more »

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First Take: Apple Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

Panther, a.k.a. Mac OS X 10.3, offers beefed-up compatibility with Windows networks and support for IPv6 networking. Read more »

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

Panther adds new and useful features, but at the expense of some old standbys. Current Jaguar users need not apply. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Perl functions 101

In this article we explore some of the most useful Perl functions for manipulating arrays and hashes, how each one works, and when it should be used. Read more »

Ten tips for PHP scripts

If you've taken a gander at PHP or read through an introductory tutorial, these tips will expand your knowledge a bit further, introducing you to some common uses as well as advanced features of PHP. Read more »

Create a reusable graph background in JSP

Displaying graphs on Java Server Pages is a fairly simple task, but you can make the process cleaner by creating reusable backgrounds. Learn this technique and see how to encode graph data. Read more »

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Live Aussie Vista Launch

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Live Blogging from the Australian launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 at the MCA in Sydney. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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