From June 11 to 15 it’s all about the Mac developer community in San Francisco under the warm sun of California: At the Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference the whole hardware and software developer community is gathering to get and exchange Mac first-hand insights.
The company is running a scholarship program for students developing for the Mac – 500 students will get scholarships to enter the conference for free (a US $ 1,559 $ value). But coming to California has to be arranged by the student him- or herself.
Application deadline is March 19, 2007 – so, if you are a student and want to join the conference, apply now.

Source: development.apple.com

The new Quicktime and iTunes update is available via Software Update. But be careful: Some users has serious problems after the update installation.
This time the update bug catched me, too: After finishing the update of iTunes 7.1 and Quicktime 7.1.5 via Software Update the Finder crashed every 90 seconds and restarted. Restarting the Finder brings all Finder-windows in the foreground – even if you are working in an other program … Steve would say … "Yuck!"
In my case, the StuffIt-Engine of StuffIt Deluxe was the problem – thanks to the glorious bug tracker Robert from the Apple-support discussion forum.
So this means wait, see and hope that Apple will fix that conflict – or update Quicktime, iTunes and StuffIt Deluxe.

Links: Apple-Support discussion forum

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