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Albert Hoffman wrote Steve Jobs a letter just after his 101st birthday asking Steve Jobs to help fund some research. Hoffman's son, as the executor of his estate, has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-grim/read-the-never-before-pub_b_227887.html">published the letter</a>.

Various Apple patent applications have been published from the US Patent and Trademark Office. One of the more interesting ones is <a href="http://business2press.com/2009/07/09/new-apple-patent-applications-revealed/">Object Recognition</a>.

Safari was <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39672468,00.htm">updated yesterday</a> to 4.0.2 patching two highly critical flaws that affect both the Windows and Mac versions of Safari. Both the flaws affect WebKit, the more serious is a memory corruption problem.

People are now prediction <a href="http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/08/prediction-google-apple-war/">Google will go to war with Apple</a>, and Microsoft will be left for dead before the battle even gets properly underway.

Whilst we all know the 3GS is a massive improvement over the 3G in terms of speed, Apple has been fairly quiet on the actual specifications. But what are the actual differences in the hardware? <a href="http://www.taptaptap.com/blog/the-impact-of-the-iphone-3gs-ram-increase/">And how much of a difference does it really make?</a>



Forbes has worked out the cost of buying every iPhone App is an amazing <a href="http://clipmarks.forbes.com/2009/07/07/cost-of-buying-every-iphone-app-144k/">US$144,326.06</a>.

BigTinCan offers you a unique way of paying only 30c a minute for your phone calls to anywhere in the world using the unique call back approach. Is this just another company that is trying to revolutionize the Australian Telco industry, or another one <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/blogs/fullduplex/soa/Blog-Cash-cow-in-a-BigTinCan-/0,139033349,339297315,00.htm">headed for the graveyard</a>

<a href="http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/07/external-iphone-mic-supposedly-gets-10x-better-audio-reception/">Brando's</a> claiming 10x better audio on this external, swivelable iPhone microphone.

A free preference pane application called <a href="http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/07/cameras-improves-the-way-os-x-deals-with-connected-cameras/">Cameras</a> can help improve the way your mac reacts when you plug in your camera devices.

In the experience of Apple reseller Dana Stibolt the Apple Stores have done nothing but <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-bz.macmedics07jul09,0,7055080.story">help his business thrive.</a>