Friday Afternoon News

<a href="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jobs_and_gates-20071019-015437.jpg"><img class="imgright size-full wp-image-370" title="jobs_and_gates-20071019-015437" src="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jobs_and_gates-20071019-015437.jpg" alt="jobs_and_gates-20071019-015437" width="300" height="219" /></a>Apple has been very busy luring over engineering staff. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124104666426570729.html">The Wall Street Journal has dug deeper</a> and found that there are over 100 people on LinkedIn, skilled in the art of integrated circuit engineering, that have changed their employer from companies like Intel &amp; Samsung, to Apple. <a href="http://forums.mactalk.com.au/19/63561-apple-cpu-gurus.html">There's a good thread on the forums</a> about Apple's latest maneuver into making their own chips.

<a href="http://www.mcvuk.com/news/34129/Xboxs-Teversham-joins-Apple">Another lucrative personnel addition over in Cupertino is Richard Teversham</a>, who was the head strategist of Microsoft's Xbox division. He's been working at Microsoft for 15 years and now he works for Apple.

It looks like MacTalkers have been busy impressing Apple with their iPhone apps lately - with Bjango's <a href="http://bjango.com/apps/jobs/">Jobs</a> being featured in a <a href="http://twitter.com/bjango/status/1654990037">full page ad by Apple inside Time magazine</a>. The <a>Barista</a> iPhone app, also developed by a MacTalker has been placed into a <a href="http://twitpic.com/4b52n">full page ad inside the Wall Street Journal</a>. Good work guys! We're all proud of ya!



Following on from our successful friends, <a>The Apple Blog</a> look into what happens when an app is mentioned in an Apple ad. Not surprisingly, it gets a healthy boost of sales, via Apple's publicity.

Rumours flying around that <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10231071-37.html">Apple will drop pricing on Macs soon</a>, to counter the buying trends of consumers due to the GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS. I'm not complaining. Cheaper Macs = good.

<a href="http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/twitter/">Apple has profiled Twitter and how they use Apple gear on their business website.</a> So many dudes with black rimmed glasses and beards, looking effortlessly cool.

A man doesn't like his MacBook Air's hinge, as it broke. Instead of getting it fixed, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5234015/disgruntled-macbook-air-owner-has-poor-problem+solving-skills-a-knife">he just decides to stab the MacBook Air with a knife</a>. What the fuck was he doing in order to make the hinge so gimped in the first place?

The contest you've been waiting to see - which device is faster to type on, while blasting around in a rally car at over 200km/h? The iPhone or an EeePC? <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10230160-1.html">You'll only find out by watching this video.</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPM2bfPIutU">Here's a video of the dude that made Flight Control</a>, talking on the Australian Today show about his magnificent creation. The person playing it whilst they're talking is hopeless. You have to put the right plane on the right runway dude!

Someone made a "<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5234840/perfect-cocaine-simulator-will-never-make-it-to-the-iphone-app-store">cocaine simulator</a>" for the iPhone. Unfortunately, it's not up on the App Store. So if you want it, you gotta jailbreak. <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5234225/first-solid-gold-iphone-takes-tackiness-to-new-levels">To go with it, grab a solid gold iPhone encrusted in diamonds.</a>