Has the environmental campaigning organisation once again failed to give credit where it is due? Is it taking credit that it doesn't deserve?

3D printers - devices that can turn 3D files into physical objects - are attractive to a range of designers and hobbyists. The Solidoodle is perhaps the first model to deliver the right combination of price, performance and OOBE.

Sophos reckons as many as one Mac in five holds at least one file containing at a piece of malware, although the news isn't as bad as it sounds.

Did you notice last week's Apple Software Installer Update 1.0? Now we know why we need it.

Governments are fair game for criticism, and those of a right-wing persuasion are understandably keen on bagging the present government. But it behooves them to get their facts right. Ruslan Kogan's ongoing campaign against the digital TV Household Assistance Scheme serves double-duty as a way of gaining free publicity for his company's low prices.

Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, is reportedly foreshadowing changes in the legislation to stop Optus offering its TV Now service, following the company's court win last week. Any changes are likely to whittle away at the exemption we currently enjoy to time-shift programs.

That's just great! A credit card company, a cinema chain, and one of the big four banks have just legitimised the use of smartphones in cinemas.

Automatic updating has its advantages, but it can conceal feature changes.

Facebook has issued a list of the 25 'most social' airports in the world. The correlation with official list of the world's busiest airports isn't as strong as you might expect, so what's going on?

  There's a meme spreading that says Apple was right to stay with a 3.5in screen for the iPhone family despite calls for more real estate. The argument is that you can't easily reach the opposite corners when using a 4+in device one-handed, but I call shenanigans.  

Steve Jobs famously described Apple TV as a "hobby". Is OS X being relegated to similar status?

Mac users' reactions to Lion are about the most polarised I can remember. Some of the new features seem to suit some but not all, and what one person sees as advance, another regards as a step back.

A rumour suggested Apple was planning to do away with the Magic Mouse. Does that make sense?

Mac and iPhone owners have been complaining that App Store and Mac App Store prices are relatively high in Australia. Apple has now rebalanced the price levels, bringing them into closer alignment with current exchange rates.

Describing Apple's customers as iFools (or iSheep) is about as constructive as referring to members of the open source community as Freetards. All it does is crank up the emotion when what's really needed is some level-headed analysis.

One of the attractive aspects of Mac OS X Lion was that the server and desktop editions were to be rolled into one. Despite assertions to the contrary by some observers, this could still be the case.

The rabble-rousers and outraged tabloid readers/listeners/viewers are getting hot under the collar about a $300 million budget allocation for the Household Assistance Scheme associated with the digital TV switchover. I reckon their concern could be misplaced.

A scanning software problem with Mac OS X may be caused by devices you're no longer using.

I don't know how many people will be affected by this, but I've discovered that if you've been sending plain text emails through Outlook 2011 viaAppleScript, you'll need to make a small change to your script(s) after applying Service Pack 1.

The existence of two million .au domain names for the first time is being heralded as an achievement. It's certainly a milestone, but I think that Australia - apart from the domain name industry - would be better off with a smaller number.