With Spotify launching a new offline music player for iPhones, it has taken a big step forward to giving itself a future. Now it faces the same dilemma as Real’s Rhapsody: why pay for a universal jukebox when your music will disappear when the sub runs out?

The pioneering PC, known as the Spacebook, is the brainchild of Alaska-based technology firm gScreen.

The source code for a Windows Trojan capable of recording Skype calls as MP3 files has been released in a move that spells bad news for VoIP confidentiality.

With Snow Leopard, Apple has streamlined and simplified the process of installing Mac OS X. While older versions of OS X made you decide what kind of installation you wanted to perform before you even specified what to install, Snow Leopard’s installer gives you a single installation path. It’s considerably easier.

When Sky News needed pictures of a shooting at Waterloo Station, it grabbed them from the nearest internet source – with neither acknowledgement nor payment.

That’s almost double the number of people who uploaded self-created content in 2008. The survey also shows that 40 per cent of web users have posted messages on chat sites, blogs and news groups in the last year, up from 20 per cent in 2008.

Apple has approved the Spotify iPhone application, allowing users to stream music to their handsets.

Everyone wants a faster network. But before you can do anything to speed up yours, you must ascertain how fast it’s currently going. Yet measuring network speed isn’t as straightforward as you might think.

Apple’s exchange-rate math has ruffled the feathers of some British Mac fans who are taking umbrage at the cost of Snow Leopard in the UK.

SmileOnMyMac today announced TextExpander touch, the iPhone version of their customizable typing shortcut tool. With TextExpander touch, iPhone users can enter frequently-used text using short abbreviations. Users who have TextExpander on the Mac can share snippet groups with their iPhone via a local network. The company has also released the TextExpander touch Software Development Kit. The SDK consists of a free TextExpander engine library and sample code.

I like sharing my photos more than ever. I regularly take advantage of iPhoto ‘09’s integration with Flickr and Facebook, but sharing photos on Twitter is a bit more complicated, since you need to get a photo out of iPhoto and onto your desktop in order to upload it somewhere.

John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, has become an unlikely Twitter success despite his well-publicised struggles with the English language