MacRumors.com have posted this article which suggests that the anticipated delivery date for OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard has been brought forward to Quarter 1 of 2009. This is exciting as it potentially points to a January MacWorld announcement in Steve Jobs Keynote speech.

Apple have today released a software update for the new MacBooks which have been reported by many owners to exhibit problems with trackpad clicks not being recognised. This has been widely discussed on Apples forums and popular blogs and podcasts have covered the issue extensively. Leo Laporte has covered this on a number of episodes of MacBreak Weekly since upgrading to a new MacBook Pro.

Gary Rosenzweig has just posted a bunch of new free iPhone ringtones over at MacMost.com.

Do you think if he could Steve Jobs would have the cable in the new Cinema Display photo air-brushed out ? It must be a real source of angst for SJ that there are still some parts of the computer that you cannot get rid of, like power leads and video connection cables…. But you can bet the engineers at Cupertino are working on this…

Here are some of the interesting facts and figures from todays conference call by Steve Jobs following Apples quarterly earnings report :-

Apps Amuck.com is a newly launched web site aimed at budding developers who wish to try their hand at creating their first iPhone app. At present the site has the first 13 of a planned 31 tutorials, each encompassing a downloadable copy of the source code and instructions on building the application and testing within Xcode. Given the enormous amount of hype surrounding the potential income to be made from even the simplest iPhone apps, sites such as AppsAmuck.com are destined to become extremely popular ( and numerous )…

Most iPhone users are probably familiar with the application Shazam which is available as a free download from the app store. Shazam allows you to identify the name of a music track playing on the TV/Radio or in a club/bar by recording a short segment using your iPhones microphone which it then uploads to the Shazam servers where the track is recognized and the artist and track name displayed back on your iPhone.

Quick survey time…. Home many podcasts are you currently subscribed to in iTunes ? Mine is currently at around 20, plus or minus one or two. Mostly tech chat shows such as British Mac and TWiT, but with a couple of music and comedy shows thrown in for good measure.

Apple have today sent invites to selected journalists inviting them to a special event next Tuesday 14th October. The invites read “the spotlight turns to notebooks” in an unusually direct manner for Apple, whose events are generally entitled with thinly veiled hints at the actual subject of the day.

Its been a little while since I last saw a scare story about the “first REAL” virus for Mac OS X being in the wild, and this led me to wonder what anti-virus product UKMac.net readers typically used on their Macs ?