Apple had a great Q2 this year, in fact, it was their best Q2 ever. Apple has US$29 billion in cash. There was a 3% decline in Mac sales vs. last year though, mainly due to the overall educational market dropping severely. As usual, the “we know nothing” line was touted in the Q&A.

On the other hand, Microsoft had their first ever drop in quarterly earnings since they started. Aww.

But Apple have sacked 1,600 dudes from their retail stores around the world. Aww.

Forbes got a copy of the deposition Steve Jobs gave the SEC regarding the stock backdating scandle. Apparently Steve felt un-loved by the Apple board, so gave himself some backdated shares. Aww.

Lifehacker talk to Woz about his productivity methods.

There’s a series of 3 articles on the US Macworld, discussing Apple’s environmental efforts and impact.

New version of Expandrive is out, and it is great. If you hook up to SSH/SFTP/FTP servers often, check it out. It even supports Amazon S3 now!

Gizmodo got a professional sword swallower to swallow an iPod Shuffle. There’s video of course.

AT&T are ready to counter the Palm Pre (which will be on the Sprint network), by giving their sales staff a list of talking points they can use to persuade the customer to buy an iPhone instead of a Pre.

Metal Gear Solid Touch has been bumped to version 2 – with Konami saying the improvements are that good, that it’s now the game they wanted to release in the first place.