Honolulu's third Apple Store opened in Waikiki in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center this morning. Here's a couple of photos and a short video of my walk and the new store.

LightZone 3.6 is a simple to use photo processing tool that complements the photo editors I use on a day to day basis (Pixelmator and The GIMP). Its powerful Relighting tool and Style presets let me make large dramatic photo changes that might take a dozen steps in a more general purpose bitmap editor.

Firefox 3.0.2 is out and had three Mac-specific fixes.

After months of thinking about it, I finally tried using MacJournal 5.1 over the weekend. And, I like what I see so far. Its ability to post individual journal entries to a blog is a big plus for me. I think it may become a part of my of application toolset.

Sun VirtualBox 2.0 was released on Sept. 4, 2008. I tried this free Open Source cross-platform virtualization hypervisor on an iMac running OS X Leopard. Microsoft Windows virtualization looks somewhat improved. But, running Fedora 9 Linux resulted in problems that I did not see with VirtualBox 1.6.2 a few months ago.

VMware Fusion 2 Release Candidate 1 addresses the major problems I ran into when I tried the Beta 2 release a month ago. There are a few glitches I ran into. But, it looks like Fusion 2.0 is on track for a production release soon.

VMware Fusion 2.0 RC1 includes free McAfee VirusScan Plus 1-yr subscription for Microsoft Windows Guest OSes on your Mac. But, IMHO, it is a pretty "heavy" product and you might still want to look around.

I sorted through the various versions of the GIMP bitmap editor available for the Mac last week. This week, I report on what I found after playing with GIMP on my slightly underpowered Macbook. The results were good. In fact, very good IMHO.

I wanted to install a free (Open Source if possible) image editor on my MacBook. After looking around, I returned to look at GIMP whose multi-window interface always bothered me. Here's what I found about GIMP for Mac OS X 10.5.

Watch NBCOlympics.com video from the 2008 Summer Olympics on your Mac or iPhone. You will need Microsoft Silverlight on your Mac. But, your iPhone (or iPod touch) is ready to roll as-is without any changes.