Next up is Airport Base Station Update 2008-002, which

includes general fixes and compatibility updates for the following applications:

- AirPort Utility
- AirPort Base Station Agent”

As to what these fixes and compatibility updates actually are, we certainly won’t know from Software Update. It doesn’t even link to a Knowledge Base article on the Apple website. (We’ll look it up for you.)

The update will fix what’s pertinent to your system. In the Doodler’s case it just updated Airport Utility to Version 5.3.2, a 10.5mb download.

We have a new chapter in the continuing mystery of why normally astute and business-savvy companies continually produce anti-virus software for the Macintosh year after year.

One of these companies is Symantec, which has just released Norton AntiVirus 11 for the Macintosh. The big new feature is that it now works with Leopard, and adds an all-new Norton Antivirus Dashboard widget. Whoopee.

Come to think of it, the recent massive influx of virus-paranoid Windows users coming to the considerably safer Mac fold is an even bigger, fatter market to tap, so it makes some sort of warped business sense. Symantec has been the number one antivirus software product for Macs consistently since June 1998, so they have been mining this particular lode of paranoia for a pretty long time now, and is showing no sign of stopping.

A 1-year license to Norton Antivirus 11 for the Macintosh is available for US$29.95 for download on the Symantec website, if you want it for some reason.

One of the Doodler’s most-favorite-of-all-time-extreme-to-the-max apps is the SRS iWow Plug-in, which tweaks audio from iTunes to create fantastic audal soundstages and environments that make you disbelieve that all this goodness is actually coming from your two cheap, tinny, bargain speakers. The plug-in lets you adjust bass, focus, stereo separation, and definition from your own preferences or the built-in presets and make you feel like you owned Wharfdales.

It’s certainly a plug-in I can’t imagine being without. It’s the best US$20 I ever spent.

Well, SRS has an update available for download as we speak. iWow 2 now lets you save your personal presets, and adds  auto-presets based on the material you’re playing (”Cruise Control”), and more of its own. Best of all, it adds Movie Mode, which has the ability to create. Virtual. Surround. Over. Headphones. (Granted, this is only with the SRS 360 Headphones, but still…)

It usually sells for US$29.99, but the introductory promo gives it to you at US$19.99, with upgrades for old users at US$11.99. There’s even a Free Trial, which I urge you to take so you can be a true believer.

Go get SRS iWow 2 here. iWow indeed.