If you’re a fan of Sporting Apostrophes, the world’s most successful football team, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to download the OFFICIAL Sporting Apostrophes Mac OSX Dashboard Widget.

Apple have consistently rubbished the rumoured iBeardTouch, the combined phone, music player, web browser and beard maintenance wonder-gadget. “It simply does not exist - the whole idea is pure fantasy,” barked Dave Satsuma, Chief of Male Grooming Technology at Apple. However, the following image, leaked to undercover barbers in the Los Angeles underground, suggests the incredible device may actually exist!

“Picture the scene: you’re on the train, listening to Slade, chatting on the phone to your mistress, whilst trimming your precious face blanket - genius!” enthused Alan Key, barber to the stars. “This will make the lawnmower redundant!”

I’m sure you’ve already heard everything there is to know about Apple’s new iPod Touch. The “iPhone-minus-phone” is a beauty, and boasts the same innovative touchscreen interface and wifi capability as the iPhone.

In theory, and only if the software/firmware allows, the hardware should allow the unit to make a fantastic PDA. Add an email client (far better than using webmail in Safari), calendaring functionality and a basic note-taking application and the usefulness of the unit increases exponentially. I’d be much happier taking this on holiday than my MacBook.

A 5ft 10″ neon Apple logo has found its way onto eBay. The price is rapidly increasing as the Apple fanboys continue their bidding war, but hey, it’d look great in any studio, workplace, lounge, bedroom…

The ever colourful ColorWare have added the iPhone to their roster of rainbow products. If you can’t deal with the prospect of owning an iPhone in its default black never fear - ColorWare are offering them in a dazzling array of custom colours.

Check out their colourful version of the Nano, MacBook and Mac mini.

Yesterday Apple announced the release of the Safari 3 beta for both Mac and PC. Rumoured to be faster than Linford Christie after a nandrolone binge, how does it fare?

As with the PC iTunes installation, Apple forces you to install Quicktime as part of the installation process which is a mild irritation - having disabled Quicktime’s tasktray process from a previous installation, I now have it running again. I suppose you have to chuckle at Apple’s little jokes.

Once installed it looks… a little out of place. With OSX scrollbars and form elements, it feels a little like a deviant, cross-dressing browser; a PC application in Mac getup. Like its Mac counterpart, it lacks a homepage button which is alarming, irritating and surprising in equal measure. I’m struggling to think of a single reason for its omission.

My PC browser of choice is, like many people, Firefox. It’s not perfect, but its many little add-ons and shortcuts make it a cut above the rest. In highly unscientific tests of uncached page loading speeds however, Safari 3 doesn’t seem to be the speed demon it claims to be. It actually seems slower than Firefox, a fact that is emphasised by Safari’s preference for loading the entire page before displaying anything at all. I’ll be trying out the Mac implementation soon to see whether its blistering pace is evident on OSX.

One very welcome feature of the new Safari browser, however, is the beautifully anti-aliased HTML text. Why PC users have been made to suffer without this feature for so long (save for IE7’s poor ClearType implementation) is a question even the wisest of wise men would struggle to answer.

So overall, it’s nothing to write home about. A browser like any other (minus the home button), with nice looking text but out of place looking form elements. I’ll stick with Firefox I think.

Following weeks of rumours, Apple have officially announced that the Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard operating system will be delayed until October 2007. A brief statement on the Apple Hot News page states that:

[to finish the iPhone on time] we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us.

So, Apple’s venture into mobile telephony bumps their new operating system. I can’t say I’m surprised, but fair play to Apple for being upfront and honest. The statement concludes:

We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones

Apple’s new Mac Pro workstations have finally hit the Apple store. Available with quad-core and 8-core Xeon processors, the evil, Skeletor-class, beast machines start at £1,699.

The Camino Project has released the latest beta of the Camino browser for OSX. First impressions seem good - it’s noticeably faster that Firefox. The new features are nothing to write home about, but overall, it’s a significant step in the right direction.