Lots of news to catch up on, so here's a nice meaty post to start your week off with.

The 8GB iPhone is out of stock in the UK and sellers are unable to order more stock. Smells like 3G iPhone is imminent.

Inside Steve's Brain is a new book by Leander Kahney. MacLife have an interview with Leander about his experience writing the book and delving into the psyche of Steve Jobs.

ArsTechnica get a sneak peek at RapidWeaver 4. Looks like a nice improvement over RapidWeaver 3 which was already pretty awesome and a huge improvement over iWeb.

MacApper have a little round-up of QuickLook plugins for Leopard which make QuickLook a lot more useful. My favourite is Folder View - so handy!

Apple recently purchased PA Semi, a microprocessor designer that makes PowerPC designs. Apple purchasing a PPC chip company didn't make much sense to a lot of people so RoughlyDrafted takes a nice look at who PA Semi are and what Apple could be upto with such a valuable company under their control.

Subversion is a management system traditionally for programmers to keep track of changes in their code - however someone has applied Subversion for use by writers to track changes to their articles or books. Nerdy, but efficient if used properly.

With more and more people being frustrated by Vista, people are moving over to the Mac, duh, however, a lot of those people are programmers. Arstechnica takes a look at the Win32 programming environment and compares it to Apple's Cocoa environment. A very interesting article that highlights a big reason why the Mac is what it is today.

TidBits writes three good tips for using iCal in a group environment - mostly revolving around CalDAV.

A few reviews of items I've found:
Guitar Hero III for the Mac, Blue Snowflake USB mic, B&W Zeppelin iPod Speaker Dock, AudioEngine A5 speakersp and the Rain Design mStand

Couple of apps that have caught my eye lately: Times is an inventive RSS reader that presents the news in the style of a newspaper. VMWare Fusion got a bump to 1.1.2, bringing better support for Time Machine backups and the MacBook Air. Evernote helps you collect various sources of information, sync it across your devices and tag it and organise it. Rivet hooks your Mac up to your Xbox 360 to play media, it does a better job than Connect360 apparently. iSoftPhone is a VOIP/SIP softphone designed for the Mac and it works great.

Ooooh, RapidWeaver 4 looks to be excellent.

My god that RSS app 'Times' looks awesome!

I've had absolutely no interest in anything other than safari RSS until this. not ven Jon Hicks's CSS wizardry has tempted me.

Just peeking at the preview screenshots has really shaken up my perspective on how information might be shared over the next few years. I reckon the end of the line is coming soon for the hard copy edition of the Australian.

I have to agree, it certainly looks great! Coming in 5 days.

Yeah DAMN! i want it NOW...

hehe.. I even tried looking for a hidden download extension.. no luck.

as i posted in the original iPhone release thread, my source at Apple USA has confirmed that the 3G phone will be released in Oz around June, (dependent on europe). It was also confirmed by a question the Malaysian Deputy PM asked the Apple VP on a recent visit, he asked when is the 3G phone to be released and the Apple VP confirmed summer this year.

seems my initial skepticism was unwarranted!

other news is that the MB's seem almost certain to get an aluminium case, ( i think this is old news, just further confirmation of same.)

i have also used iSoftphone and found it to be stable with macs, a nicer interface than the old SJphone too!

sitting here on my new back verandah listening to my new AudioEngine A5's and i can only agree with that review. if you have a lazy $450, treat yourself and get a pair!