Wednesday Afternoon News

<a href="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jobs-apple-5.jpg"><img class="imgright size-full wp-image-351" title="jobs-apple-5" src="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jobs-apple-5.jpg" alt="jobs-apple-5" width="250" height="240" /></a>Our friends at <a href="http://bjango.com/">Bjango</a> have a new app for the kiddies called <a href="http://bjango.com/apps/matches/">Matches</a>. They've also updated <a href="http://bjango.com/apps/phases/">Phases</a>, their moon tracking app and <a href="http://bjango.com/apps/cities/">Cities</a>, a world time app. <a href="http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/">iStat pro</a>, the ultimate widget, made by the same guys, has also been updated to 4.8.

<a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/04/wwdc-09-already-sold-out-for-second-time-in-history.ars">WWDC '09 is sold out dudes.</a> Sorry. Better luck next year.

Apple has <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/04/apple-continues-its-mysterious-chip-plans-with-new-hire.ars">poached the CTO of AMD's Graphics Products Group</a>, Bob Drebin. (not to be confused with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Frank_Drebin">Frank Drebin</a> of Police Squad). Together with the purchase of <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=3991">P.A Semi</a> and <a href="http://www.9to5mac.com/mark-papermaster-Bob-Drebin">Mr. Papermaster</a> now able to start work *and* Apple's investment in <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/">Imagination Technologies</a> - you can certainly smell what Apple is cooking. I bet it's quite delicious. I hope we can eat it soon. Yum.



NAB 2009 is a big convention for digital media. All the dudes involved in audio, video, film and broadcast meet up and show off stuff. <a href="http://www.freshdv.com/nab">FreshDV have a load of videos from the expo floor.</a>

M-Audio is telling it's Mac customers not to use <a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/27/mac-usb-audio-woes-m-audio-says-avoid-the-left-hand-usb-port/">the left-hand side USB ports</a> on MacBook Pro's. This is due to the way Apple has hooked up the USB port on that side, as it already acts a USB hub of sorts for the keyboard, trackpad, iSight, infra-red and Bluetooth.

<a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/news/apple_adds_three_new_garageband_artist_lessons">Th ere's some new Garageband '09 artists lessons.</a> You can learn from Sarah McLachlan how to play her song Angel and Sting shows you how to play Fragile and Message in a Bottle.

It's 4am. Your MobileMe is broken. Who do you turn to for help? <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/140249/2009/04/livechat.html">Apple's MobileMe 24/7 chat support service</a>, that's who. I tried asking them about the 4G iPhone already, so don't waste your time.

Apparently, ye hackintoshe is teh suckz. <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/six-months-with-a-hackintosh-netbook-it-aint-pretty/">Brian Chen from Wired doesn't like his after a couple months of use</a>. Neither does <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2009/04/27/road-tested-why-the-hackb00k-is-a-fail/">TUAW</a>'s Steven Sande, or Dave Sparks from <a href="http://www.macsparky.com/2009/04/26/the-netbook-experiment/">MacSparky</a>.

<a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/enterprise/doylestown.html">Apple has profiled Doylestown Hospital in Philadelphia.</a> They use iPhone's all over the place to speed up diagnoses, have information at their fingertips and to communicate with their peers much easier than before. My partner, who is a nurse (and an Apple nerd too), dreams of something similar reaching her Parkville-based hospital.

<a href="http://www.9to5mac.com/iPhone-3-beta-4">iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 is out right now.</a> You need the beta of iTunes 8.2 to use it. Those who care know where to get it. News on what it brings will arrive over the next 24 hours as geeks get their hands on it and break their NDAs and show us plebs what's in it.