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 [Apple.com] Apple - Get a Mac: Every Mac comes with iLife ’06, a suite of software that transforms your photos, music, and video into all kinds of projects. Make high-quality websites, photo books, DVDs, songs, slideshows, music CDs, calendars, cards, prints, podcasts, music videos, documentaries, and more.

 [Macnn.com] MacNN | Apple, Macintosh and iPod news: Dobry Backuper 1.5 ($30) updates the backup software, dramatically reducing cache size for CD/DVD backups and requires only as much free hard drive space as the size of the CD or DVD being backed up. Version 1.5 also includes more detailed logging for CD/DVD backups, and a message box is now displayed if the burn to CDs or DVDs was unsuccessful.

 [Davidweiss.blogspot.com] David Weiss: A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab: An "original" Mac (whether it be a 128K Mac or a Mac XL) once owned by Microsoft would be very valuable indeed. The birth of Excel 1.0, not to mention its predecessor, Microsoft's first GUI spreadsheet known as Multiplan, quite a significant milestone in human history if only because of the number of lives eventually touched.

 [Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide: A team of Chinese engineers say they have unraveled the protocol for Skype, and vow to release their own third-party Skype client before the end of August. VoIP guru Charlie Paglee says he talked with one of the members of the team which reverse-engineered the Skype protocol, and actually received a Skype call from that person who was able to prove that he was using the reverse engineered software by sending Paglee the IP address of his PC, information that's always encrypted during a conventional Skype call.

 [Eweek.com] eWeek.com: As a major player in the server space, Microsoft should offer the sort of mandatory access controls we're beginning to see in Linux and Solaris. For now, though, the bulk of Microsoft's privilege management is centered on the desktop.

[MacLife: The best apple mac computer hardware and software posts from around the web] Tech Jobs Expert: Apple Mac skills increasingly... : Hoffman reports, "The about-face in attitude toward the Macintosh -- and what it means in terms of the skills IT professionals require -- was evident to Vaughn when one of Dataprise's clients, with about 100 computer users, made it clear that the company needed to have adequate Macintosh know-how. 'Unless you can support our Macintosh enterprise, we're not going to be able to stay with you guys,' Vaughn says Dataprise was told."

 [*michael parekh on IT*] ON SHARPCAST'S PHOTO SYNC SERVICE: While I haven't tried the service itself yet, I'm in violent agreement with Walt on the need for better tools for mainstream consumers to sync and back up all their digital stuff. As Walt describes it:

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