Friday Morning News

jobs_cook2Need to be told how ugly you are? There’s an app for that, and it’s called Fit or Fugly.

At 1350€ (almost AU$ 2,200), the world’s first commercially-available 512GB SSD isn’t cheap (unless your’re someone with more money than sense). However, with speeds of 230MB/s and 180MB/s for read and write respectively, there’s no doubt it wouldn’t be fast.

If you’ve ever wanted your set of kitchen scales to come with an iPod dock, now’s your chance.

From your local iPhone developer, iTNews counts down the best Aussie-made iPhone apps. Curiously, they missed out on including any of Bjango’s fantastic apps…

Frustrated that your Magic Mouse is excellent in every respect, apart from middle click (to open links in new tabs, for example)? Frustrate no more, as MouseWizard will give your Magic Mouse the extra clicks it’s been looking for. There’s also something similar that enables middle click functionality on multi-touch MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s.

Waveboard is a Google Wave client for Mac. Why make your own Fluid client when other people have already done the hard work for you? Also available in a iPhone version on the App Store.

Is it too early to talk about Christmas? No? In that case, if you’re looking for the perfect Christmas gift to get the iPhone-lover in your life, check out what Ars Technica suggests. Alternatively, there’s always the super-awesome-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that BookArc Stand for Notebooks.

If you haven’t seen the new iPhone 3GS commercials, then that’s something you can fix. Song and Gift are available here.

Normally if you were to tell me that an iPhone is better then a DSLR I’d laugh – unless your name was Chase Jarvis. This guy takes incredible photos with his iPhone – Macworld take a look at when an iPhone can be better than a DSLR.

Rumour and speculation abound as rumours and speculation of a Google Phone, based on Android, designed by Google. Manufacture will likely be outsourced – not even all Apple “makes” the iPhone – but as to whether this will be the first true iPhone Killer (if it even gets out the gate) remains to be seen.

Finally, 1Password 3 has been released and is ready for your consumption. Go forth and acquire, folks.

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