Monday Morning Ruse

Word on the street is Apple are going to announce the iPad 3 the first week in March, which means you should start thinking about selling your iPad 2 now if you think the rumours will pan out. And when the rumours come from All Things D, there's a pretty high possibility they'll pan out.

Apple killed off the white MacBook last week, but they're not leaving out educational institutions out in the cold. Instead, they're offering an educational-exclusive 13-inch MacBook Air for a cheaper price — the 13" MacBook Air has the same specs as the base model 11", but at a cost of US $999 when bought in bulk.

Over the weekend Bjango released Skala Preview, their latest app to send design previews from your Mac to your iPhone or iPad. Skala Preview for Mac is available now in the Mac App Store for $4.99, and Skala View for iOS is free.

Siri represents nearly 25% of Wolfram Alpha queries after just four months, which is kinda surprising, because it means either the iPhone 4S is really quite popular, or that Wolfram Alpha isn't as popular as I thought.

Rob Beschizza from Boing Boing has put together a little video of every Apple design ever (ish) in 30 seconds (ish). That's apparently not quite enough, so he also puts one together for every NeXT design ever in 30 seconds.

Cinemagram is an app that allows you to create animated GIFs right there on your iPhone, making it possibly one of the coolest apps I've seen yet. It's crazy cool.

Touch Arcade review The Hacker, a game in which you have to play through a series of mini-games in order to "hack" targets. It reminds me a bit of the desktop game of the same calibre Uplink, only with simpler game mechanics.

Remember the Elevation Dock for iPhone that was featured on Kickstarter a little while ago? Yeah, that was a massive, massive success — successfully funded with just short of $1.5 million says it all.

Also on the pretty cool list is an iPhone rangefinder. It's not just about looking the part, though, the iPhone rangefinder also allows you to take photos using the shutter and viewfinder.

MacStories has good reason to believe there's a good case for an iOS version of Aperture right about now, and they have a few good reasons to back that up.

Sir Jonny Ive might be credited with all of the Apple designs today, but what about before Sir Jonathan? Jerry Manock was the man who designed the Apple II, and Seven Days has a profile of him.

Finally this morning, two new Apple iPhone 4S ads to start your week.