Arstechnica.com are reporting that a developer preview (this is not a beta and should be used with caution) is now publicly accessible to download. The download can be found here, and it's an opportunity to add yet another web browser to your arsenal on the Mac.

One company with a major dominance on the net has described to send a shot across the bow of another with an OS dominance...and no, we're not talking about Apple anywhere there folks. Google have announced that they hope to launch the Google Chrome OS later this year. An open source, lightweight OS, it will be initially targeted for netbooks. Technically, the OS is described as "Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel."

Google has announced Picasa for Mac (in beta) - free software that helps Mac users easily organise their photos in one place, edit pictures, and share them online with friends, family, and the world.

OpenOffice Org has announced the release of the first public beta of OpenOffice 3.0.

Of particular note to Mac users this official version is 100% Mac OS X native. In other words no more need for X11 to be installed. This release has full import capabilites for Office 2007 files but cannot save in this format. It also fully supports the new features of ODF 1.2.

There is more scripting support even with basic Visual Basic scripting (something Microsoft removed from Office 2008 Mac) although it's unclear if this is supported under Mac OS X.