Is RealPlayer badware? Why is Twitter so flaky lately? vLite might help shrink Windows Vista in virtual machines (Parallels, VMware Fusion).

I bought and took a look at the FileMaker Bento 1.0 personal data organizer. It has a lot of promise but needs a few bugs cleaned out of the meal to be a bit more palatable.

It took two email complaints, but Apple resolved the problem I had updating a second iPod touch.

Seems like a lot of people can't find the iPod touch January Upgrade. Here's where to find it.

Here's my weekly summary of freeware, Open Source, and free web services for the Mac: TextWrangler 2.3, Pownce out of private beta, Kaltura video collaboration service, and FixMyMovie web service.

I installed Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac over the weekend and ran into a couple of issues. Even though I was aware of the ID 502 installation issue, I was still surprised by what I saw (though I shouldn't have been). I'm still debating whether to sync my Windows Mobile smartphone with Entourage 2008. Mark/Space provided some interesting information about Missing Sync for Windows Mobile.

Ack, it's an all-web services week this time around. Will definitely have some actual freeware or Open Source apps for the Mac next week. Lots of interesting web sites though. And, how do you feel about Sun buying MySQL?

I had never heard of Pixelmator until last week. But, I'm glad I did now. This low-cost image/photo editor is now one of the most used tools on my MacBook. It is very fast and was easy to learn to use.

Go forth and virtualize Windows Home Basic or Home Premium on your Mac using Parallels or Fusion. It is ok now. Phew...

Here's the freeware, Open Source, and rich web services that I mentioned in my personal blog last week: Bazaar: Distributed Version Control Software, Weather Channel Weather Layers for Google Maps, Publish With Blogger Using Your Own Web Host, Cyberduck 2.8.2 ftp/sftp Mac Client, Wik.is: Free Wiki Service from the Creators of Deki Wiki, and Time Magazine: 50 Best Websites 2007.