Thursday Morning News

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<a href="http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-bans-protective-screen-film-from-apple-store/">Apple have stopped selling protective screen covers for the iPhone in all Apple stores - online as well.</a> I never saw the point of those anyways. The screen is pretty damn scratch proof as-is.

<a href="http://www.9to5mac.com/node/15059">The Wall Street Journal and NPR are making iPad-specific versions</a> of their websites, which remove the requirement for Flash. The Flash versions will still remain, but if you hit up either of those sites on an iPad, it will use HTML5 elements instead of Flash. Nice.

How are problems with the 27" iMacs these days? Has Apple fixed them yet? <a href="http://www.9to5mac.com/node/15054">According to a reply from Steve Jobs to an irate customer</a>: "This problem is behind us."

<a href="http://www.thecooksden.com/steve-jobs-cheese-head/">A bust of Steve Jobs, made out of cheese.</a> There's even a recipe to cook one yourself. Delicious?

AppStorm have a review of one of my most handy apps - <a href="http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/utilities/burn-free-functional-cddvd-burning-for-mac/">Burn</a>. It's a great free alternative to Toast.

<a href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/newmedia/president-clinton-talks-about-the-iphone-newspapers-broadband" target="_blank">Bill Clinton likes his iPhone.</a> Not a lot to this article, but he was asked what his favourite gadget is and he said he likes his iPhone best, "because I can get so much stuff on it." God speed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqB7UEdhKug">Sax Man.</a>

<a href="http://poolga.com/">Poolga</a> has a nice collection of iPhone wallpapers. There's some classy stuff on that site.

Some say the Magic Mouse is not very ergonomic. Will decided to do something about it. He got a piece of foam, slapped it on the Magic Mouse and said "fixed". Now he is selling his <a href="http://mmfixed.com/">Magic Mouse, Fixed</a> add-on so you too can enjoy a fixed Magic Mouse.

Yet another entrant to the iPhone turn-by-turn GPS navigation market is <a href="http://www.mocal.com.au/">Mocal</a> - who have released their product recently, which uses the arguably inferior NAVTEQ maps. Its payment structure is a bit weird, which uses the in-app subscription feature to make you pay per month for access to this app. It's free for the first 30 days though - good if you need a one-off shot of turn by turn navigation.

German website, Touch This, <a href="http://touch-this.de/?p=7086">has some screenshots of the popular IM+ application running on an iPad</a>. Nothing that mindblowing, but it does give a good view of how an IM client would look on an iPad.