Welcome back everyone, to another edition of “The Roundup”!

This week I’m talking about your new Snow Leopard upgrade is actually giving you a “Flash” downgrade, Apple says it’s officially time to “Rock and Roll”, and Gmail; well…, Gmail went down. Take a look, after the jump.

This week I have three stories for you. Let’s get started.

1: From : CNET News
Snow Leopard install downgrades Flash
Thursday, September 03, 2009

If you just upgraded to Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), your version of Adobe flash player just got downgraded. It isn’t enough to get rid of any features, but it is enough to reintroduce some security holes. If you installed Snow Leopard, you now have Flash 10.0.23.1, while the latest version is 10.0.32.18. Hackers have been frequently targeting Adobe products for security holes, especially Flash and Acrobat reader, since they are both popular and multi-platform. Make sure you head over to the Adobe Flash website and get the latest version (10.0.32.18), and then come right back hear and finish reading The Roundup!

2: From : Engadget
Apple holding ‘rock and roll’ themed event, September 9th
Monday, August 31, 2009

This year’s iPod keynote date is now longer a rumor. It’s officially going to be on… September 9^th, just like all the rumors that are circulating around said it would be. And while I took a guess at what would be announced a few weeks ago; there is a new rumor circulating around, That The Beatles will finally make it into the iTunes music store. This does make sense since the 9^th is also the day The Beatles: Rock Band and a digitally remastered version of The Beatles collection, including their 12 studio albums. I can’t wait for this year’s iPod keynote, because I just want an excuse to get a new iPod.

3: From : The Official Gmail Blog
More on today’s Gmail issue
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Gmail had some issues this week. In fact, it went down for about 100 minutes. Personally I didn’t notice because I was out of the house. The main way I found out, was Twitter. Luckily for me, even if I was home, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it because only the web interface went down. IMAP, POP3, and mail handling were all fully functional. Google did say that the main reason for the outage was that they took some servers down for routine maintenance and then the routing servers which were supposed to change the load to other servers got overloaded and crashed. They also said that the routing servers crashed due some new code that was supposed to improve service availability (looks like that didn’t work…). Google says that they relies that this is a major problem and that they will insure it will not happen again. But, just in case, you should think about setting up Offline Gmail (from Gmail Labs), or a regular POP3 or IMAP client.

That’s it for this week, see you next time, right here at The iLife.

–Keith Hobin