Thursday Morning News

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1818" title="stevejobs_gallery__292x400-200x0" src="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/stevejobs_gallery__292x400-200x0.jpg" alt="stevejobs_gallery__292x400-200x0" width="200" height="274" /><a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Apple-devices-hit-cafe-sweet-spot/0,130061791,339297076,00.htm?feed=rss">ZDNet bring a bunch of Apple related stats today</a>: Unwired is a big free wireless ISP offering access in public spaces like cafes. They analyised their login/splash page logs and found that 20% was from th Mac, 19% from an iPhone and 8% from an iPod Touch. Also from the same article, analyst firm IDC have deduced that in the 2nd half of 2008, 216,000 iPhones were shipped to Australia - 12.5% of the smartphone market.

<a href="http://www.crn.com.au/News/148456,vodafone-recruits-lara-bingle-for-iphone-3g-s-release.aspx">Lara Bingle will help Vodafone launch the iPhone 3GS.</a> This is clearly an influencing decision when people buy a mobile phone and Vodafone are clearly marketing geniuses. I had to Wikipedia who Lara Bingle is exactly.

The mobile Gmail website brings special <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5301885/we-dont-need-no-gmail-iphone-app-gmail-mobile-adds-touch-gestures">iPhone-only gesture recognition</a>. How cool is that? Gestures in a web browser!

<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5301470/the-life-of-steve-jobs-+-so-far/gallery/">Gizmodo</a> have a big retrospective on the life of Steve Jobs. Dude aint dead yet.

<a href="http://www.forevergeek.com/2009/06/wooden_ipod_mini/">A wooden iPod Mini</a>. Well I'll be damned.

<a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=Apple’s+Obsession+With+Secrecy+Grows+Stro nger&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">The New York Times</a> gives us a glimpse in the cult-like secrecy at Apple. Employees apparently have to cover up new products with a black cloak whilst working on them, just incase someone sees it behind the layers of security and in the windowless room.

<a href="http://www.dpreview.com/news/0906/09062401adobeupdates.asp?from=rss">Lightroom 2.4 and Camera RAW 5.4</a> are out if you're into such things.

Jared Brown, who has had an app rejected and had his genre of app banned by Apple's developer rules, <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/22/interview-jared-brown-iphone-developer-about-having-his-app-rejected/">talks rather extensively to CrunchGear about the experience.</a>

Want a bluetooth webcam? <a href="http://www.bt-1.com">Ecamm bring the BT-1 and you will like it and it's built in battery.</a>

<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/iphone-3gs-javascript-performance-blows-away-rivals-approaches-macbook-speed/">Javascript performance on the iPhone 3GS is almost the same as a MacBook</a> - which absolutely trounces any other browser.

<a href="http://apcmag.com/in-depth-review-apple-13-inch-mac-book-pro.htm">APC review the 13" MacBook Pro and love it</a>, despite not mentioning a word about Mac OS X.