The Worldwide fever pitch is now at its peak as hundreds of blogs and Mac journals desperately try to out guess each other in predicting the high points of Steve Jobs Keynote speech. With literally only a few hours to go until all becomes clear there is an unbelievable amount of speculation, perhaps more than at any previous event.

Only 1 day after the release of Parallels V3 , VMWare announced the latest public beta version of their virtualisation tool for OS X, Fusion. Fusion beta 4 brings a range of new developments including Unity, VMWares answer to Parallels Coherence mode. In Parallels Coherence mode is an option for displaying a Windows machines running applications only on the OS X desktop.

Today saw the release of Version 3 of Parallels the market leading virtualisation tool for OS X. Version 3 adds several new features to the already powerful product including support for 3D Graphics allowing Windows games to run at near native speeds, direct access to files on Windows through Finder, virtual machine snapshots and much more.

LogMeIn is a solution that allows remote control of PC’s over the Internet which until now has been limited to Microsoft Windows PC’s. A newly launched preview version of the forthcoming solution for Mac OS X is now available for download. This is beta software with known issues and should not be used in a production environment but if you are interested and have a need for this it is the first solution like this that I have seen that supports OS X.

The latest major release of the popular browser Camino hit the web today. Camino is based on the Gecko rendering engine and is a popular alternative to Safari for Mac users.

Over recent months I have been growing more and more fed up of the amount of junk mail finding its way past my ISP SPAM filter and the built in Junk Mail filter of OSX Mail, and so over the last week I have been investigating alternative solutions. The answer to the problem came when I received an email from Mailplaneapp.com inviting me to take part in the Beta evaluation of a new GMail app for OS X. For a long time I have had a GMail account but not …