Friday Morning News

Fare thee well, white MacBook. You were a fantastic machine, and like all things Apple, had your time in the spotlight. You were the polycarbonate one, the white peg in the aluminium lineup of current model MacBook Pros, and now, you aren't any of those things any more as Apple has halted the distribution of yourself, even in educational channels.

There's murmurings that Apple will release the much-anticipated iOS 5.1 on March 9th, says Boy Genius Report. IOS 5.1 isn't going to provide world peace or any outlandish things like that, but maybe, just maybe, it might solve a few issues iPhone 4S users have been experiencing with battery life and Siri.

The Verge talks about a secret project to port OS X to the ARM architecture that apparently isn't so secret any more, due to the fact that it already exists. A little later on they also reveal that it wasn't a full-blown project to port the whole OS across, but merely moving a few parts across (perhaps even for something called iOS).

The VooMoteZapper is an iOS accessory that turns your iPad or iPhone into a universal remote for pretty much any infra-red device you own. It seems pretty extensible, allowing you to program single devices as well as perform "macros" to do a few things: turn up the volume, switch the channel, and start the DVD.

The Next Web talks with Tweetbot developer Paul Haddad on Tweetbot for iPad, as well as the state of the App Store and Google's app problem. It's a pretty good insight into how a successful iOS developer sees Android, as well as how the App Store could be improved.

From Daring Fireball comes a video from 1997: it's the Apple keynote from Macworld Expo in 1997, where then-CEO Gil Ameilo talks, as does a much younger Steve Jobs. It's striking to see the difference between Apple then and Apple now.

Apple's iPhone business is bigger than all of Microsoft. Don't even think about the iPad for a second, just the iPhone. And it's not Windows, not just Office, but all of Microsoft. That's, like, huge.

School's back, and that means you might need app recommendations to help you study more effeciently. Mac AppStorm helpfully reviews Mental Case, an app that lets you create digital flashcards.

You've undoubtedly heard of the retina display found on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, but what about the ultimate retina display? Another excellent parody article from Scoopertino.

If Angry Birds and Nikes is your thing, then you've come to the right place: custom Angry Birds Nike Dunks.