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Steve Jobs has received some good news at last. He was wearing his Apple hat last month as the company announced a quarterly loss of $45 million. Yesterday, he donned his - presumably computer generated - Pixar hat to announce that he was 'thrilled' to report the most profitable quarter in the company's history.

Higher-than-expected sales of 25 million copies of the Monsters Inc video drove revenues up from $11.3m in Q4 2001 to $102.5m in Q4 2002, yielding a $46.9m profit. Nice work if you can get it.

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releases Eudora has finally made it to a fully-fledged version 5.2 and remains the email software of choice amongst the most hardened Mac tech-heads.

OS X users who want to transfer Word and Excel files to a Palm-compatible PDA now have an alternative to DataViz's Documents To Go. Quickoffice lets you edit the documents on the PDA and synchronise it with your Mac. A Pro version is also available if you need to edit your PowerPoint presentations.

Chimera could soon prove to be the answer for anyone who's struggled to find a decent browser in Mac OS X. Take your pick from Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, iCab and OmniWeb, all of them leave something to be desired. Chimera, however, has already received tacit approval from Apple and that was when it was only version 0.3. Version 0.6 has just been released, and for our money (it's free actually) it's the best OS X browser out there.