Monday Morning News

<a href="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/150421679_9f4a83aade_o.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-505 alignright" title="150421679_9f4a83aade_o" src="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/150421679_9f4a83aade_o.jpg" alt="150421679_9f4a83aade_o" width="250" height="228" /></a><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/15/apple-is-indeed-talking-about-opening-iphone-background-tasks/">Word around the traps is that Apple plans to do something regarding running iPhone apps in the background</a>, so apps can do stuff while they're not open. The Palm Pre is gonna allow it, and all Apple has is the Push Notification system. Mein Gruber said he heard something too - hence, it must be true if Gruber-san says so.

We all saw the App Store revenue estimates some blog delved into, and calculated that Apple "only" made between $20-$40 million off the App Store so far. <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/14/about-those-iphone-app-store-numbers/">Well TechCrunch looks deeper into it</a> and gives some great insight into how Apple don't really care and what the future holds for App Store to turn into a money printing machine.

<a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/05/15/apple_execs_disclose_options_for_boosting_iphone_m arket_share.html">So there was some sort of bus tour for analysts from Oppenheimer</a>, who just happened to stop off at Apple, after visiting less luminous companies and Apple told these analysts that the <em>"iPhone is still in its early days and could gain share by: providing more functionality; lowering prices; growing geographically; or segmenting the market with different models." </em>- no shit sherlock.



<a href="http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/graphics-roundups/the-evolution-of-applecom/">AppStorm take a stroll through the last decade and a bit of Apple's website.</a> Not much has changed since 1999 and it's not a bad thing.

The lack of a docking station for Apple's laptops is sometimes an issue - particularly with the business end of the spectrum. BookEndz is a 3rd party docking station for the MacBook and MacBook Pro and while they work, they're not perfect. <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/bookendz_docking_station">Mac Life have a quick review of the BookEndz.</a>

<a href="http://cultofmac.com/exclusive-steve-jobs-will-return-but-not-for-long-says-silicon-valley-psychic/10750">Leander Kahney went and asked a psychic</a> what she thinks of Steve Jobs health, when he will return to Apple and Apple's financial future. She's actually a "corporate psychic" who specialises in foreseeing the future of Silicon Valley companies. She charges $200/hr. Why didn't I think of this scam?

<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5255914/time-catsule">Check out the Time Catsule</a>. Awwwww, cats.

Kickin' a jailbroken iPhone? Wanna play XviD and FLV videos on it? <a href="http://thebigboss.org/2009/05/16/yxflash-player/">YXFlash Player will do it.</a>

Us Mac users love <a>iStat</a>. We can hook up iStat to our iPhones and it gives us all sorts of info about the Mac, on the iPhone, anywhere there's intertubes. An enterprising man, William Tisater has <a href="http://code.google.com/p/istat/">made a version of the iStat backend for Linux</a>. So all you dudes rocking a Linux box can keep tabs on your boxen whilst on the go on your iPhone.

What do people find challenging about Cocoa? <a href="http://twitter.com/scottstevenson/status/1803057665">Scott Stevenson asked this on the Twitters</a> and 19% of the responses said Objective-C was the main hurdle. <a href="http://theocacao.com/document.page/605">Read on for a summary of all the responses he received</a>.