Nick Spence

A Danish newspaper is reportedly threatening to sue Apple over the iPhone maker's refusal to allow photos of topless women to appear on the iTunes App Store.

According to website HyperOm, newspaper Ekstra Bladet has featured topless women for 35 years on Page 9, likely the equivalent to Page 3 in the Rupert Murdoch owned The Sun in the UK.

A reminder, Apple owned FileMaker has launched a special 'Buy One FileMaker, Give One Free' special holiday offer that allows those purchasing a downloadable version of FileMaker Pro 11 from the online FileMaker Web Store to receive a second downloadable copy free -- worth £260.

The award-winning, database software for Mac, Windows, iPhone iPad and the Web would make an ideal Christmas gift insists FileMaker. The limited offer is valid until 22 December 2010.

Rovio, the company behind the hit game Angry Birds, has confirmed a Christmas-themed version is heading our way, following a recent Halloween special edition.

Rovio confirmed on Twitter over the weekend that the new festive version would be available "any day now."

iFantastic has announced Drums! For iPhone is now free for 24 hours as part of a Black Friday sale.

Previously featured by Apple as app of the week, Drums! can be regarded as the "most realistic and intuitive Drum App available in the iStore right now," according to the app's description.

Award winning iPhone games developer Chillingo, best known for Angry Birds, has announced a Black Friday sale on a number of popular titles.

The deal, which runs from Friday, 26 November 26 until Sunday, 28 November sees titles reduced to 59p/ $.99.

Despite Apple's announcement last week that The Beatles are finally available legally online via the iTunes Store, Beatlemania has failed to ignite the UK charts.

"Hey Jude" entered The Official UK Top 40 Single Chart at number 40, hopefully not as a result of Wagner's painful cover version on Saturday's The X-Factor.

Over the last two years the Macworld UK Twitter feed (@macworlduk) has been one of our favourite web inventions. Many people don't get, or don't like Twitter but we're not those people. We love Twitter.

And to put a face to the account, most of the time we means Mark Hattersley (@markhattersley) and Nick Spence (@nickfromupnorth).

Those who complain about the cost of Apple products should note an Apple-1 is currently up for sale for a cool £150,000.

Around 200 on the rudimentary computers, by today's standards, were sold in 1976 from now Apple CEO Steve Jobs parent's garage.

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.6 build 10J521 to developers ahead of the official 10.6.5 release.

9to5 Mac notes the build includes "developer support for fetching and renewing App Store receipts" to enable Mac App Store support.

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs reportedly has no plans to add USB 3.0 connectivity to Macs any day soon.

Replying to Mac user Tom Kruk in an email, the outspoken Apple boss wrote: "We don't see USB 3 taking off at this time. No support from Intel, for example."

A bug in the iPhone operating system iOS, which resulted in alarms going off an hour late as Europe this week can be easily fixed. Many iPhone users found themselves waking late and even missing important appointments thanks to the glitch.

The issue has been noted online, on Twitter, Facebook, and attracted mainstream coverage in newspapers, radio and on TV.

Intego, billed as the Mac security specialists, has revealed more details of the potential security threat from the Koobface Trojan horse.

Writing in a blog post, Intego claims the problem is not a "critical" risk as a rival provider of Mac OS X security software claims.