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Apple has released the Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Mac and Windows via its Software Update utility and on the Web.

MacUpdate today launched a new software bundle promotion, delivering up to 10 applications valued at more than $600 for $49.99.

LaCie today announced the Network Space, design by Neil Poulton.

The Adium team has announced the release of Adium 1.3, a major update to their free instant messaging application for Mac OS X.

As a relative Internet novice I tend to block out things that I perceive as being completely and utterly beyond my sphere of knowledge (that’s most things, unfortunately). So I might have heard of filesharing before but likely just dismissed it as being too difficult and too troublesome to bother with.

Unfortunately my wife (who, I am pleased to say, is far younger and more interested in the technical side of life than I am) decided to sit me down and chat through filesharing. She explained how I could get my favorite Elvis tracks for free. This piqued my interested and so I listened some more.

Then she showed me how to get the Elvis tracks: all I needed to do was to type ‘Elvis’ in the search box and click find. The Ares software (that’s what we were using) found it straight away. I clicked on a button called ‘download’ and Ares went away and did its stuff. Soon enough I had the whole Elvis back catalog in my Ares music folder. Woohooo!

I can confirm that filesharing with Ares is easy enough for someone like me to get to grips with. Awesome music at an awesome price: free.

Apple has released the MacBook Air Software Update 1.0 via its Software Update utility and on the Web.

Realmac Software today announced the release of RapidWeaver 4.1.

Apple has released the 2.0.2 software update for the iPhone and iPod touch.

What could a social networking application do to break into what is quickly becoming a saturated market? Answers on a postcard.

Once way it could do it would be to do on the iPhone. Loads of iPhone apps are breaking new ground in existing markets and there is no reason at all why social networking should be any different.

So it is with the latest of these ground breaking iPhone apps: iPling. If you’ve not heard of iPling then you could be forgiven. It has only just been released and is aimed at the latest 3G iPhone.

But is just being on the iPhone enough? Probably. There are a lot of punters out there that buy iPhone apps just for the sake of buying them. Not only will this give the iPling makers a much needed boost to the coffers but it will raise the total number of users on the network. Getting a good body of users is the step where most social networks fail, so this is a much welcomed boost for iPling.

Who knows? Maybe iPling could become the next Facebook or MySpace. Certainly iPhone apps have been treated with similar fervor in the past, so why shouldn’t it happen now? Watch this space.

OWC today announced its new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro USB 2.0 Dual-Drive storage solution with a built-in USB 2.0 powered hub.