Friday Morning Hangover

Tim Cook has unwrapped a present for Apple employees in the form of generous employee discounts on Mac hardware. The discounts are pretty substantial: $500 off new Mac purchases, and $250 off the prices of iPad — compare that to the 25% discount Apple employees currently receive, and you're looking at a pretty good deal.

MacStories speculates on the next iPhone (rumours for which have already started flying), including how it may or may not include LTE. We weren't ready for it the last time around, but are we this time? Has the tech finally matured to a point where Apple think it's worth adopting?

Yesterday you saw a minimalist iPad stand from Ten One, now see their new stylus for iPad, the Pogo Sketch Plus. It features a redesigned tip, and if we're lucky, our very own MissionMan would be interested in a review?

Twitterlator Neue is a gorgeous Twitter client for the iPhone that was recently updated to include push notifications powered by Boxcar. What's interesting is that the push notifications are available as an in-app purchase for $1.99 a year, but whether that's worth it or not might depend on how much you love Tweetbot.

According to a few places, there's a mounting argument for the case that Apple's iMessage is killing off SMS as we know it. IMessage in itself is pretty great, as it doesn't care which carrier you're on —*so long as you have an iOS 5 device and an active data connection, you're all set.

Lifehacker show off all the things you can do if you tap-and-hold things in iOS. Tap and hold a link to show options. Tap and holding the zero key will give you a degrees symbol. And so on, and so forth.

Our own Beau Giles shows off a cool trick where you can replace the carrier logo on your iPhone without having to jailbreak. He's even provided a few neat custom logos for all the major Australian telcos with easy to follow instructions.

Cobook is to Address Book as Fantastical is to iCal, meaning that it's a smart address book that understands natural language. It isn't quite available yet, but it's currently on show at Macworld|iWorld.

Simplify is one of those audio-controller apps that shows you pretty album art alongside allowing you to control Rdio, iTunes, or Spotify. It's really pretty, and available in the Mac App Store.

Just when you thought you've had enough of Angry Birds, then you find out that Angry Birds will hit Facebook on Valentine's Day.