Wednesday Morning News

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1691" title="3229032878_f17ceeb7df_o" src="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/3229032878_f17ceeb7df_o.jpg" alt="3229032878_f17ceeb7df_o" width="245" height="200" />Looking forward to an iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak? <a href="http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/124232620/big-week">The Dev Team will not disappoint.</a> A jeailbreak for 3.0 is expected not long after it's public release Thursday morning (Australian time).

A Brazilian website got their hands on an iPhone 3G S and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIeXFy48dtg">took some video of it.</a> Me want 3G S goodness now please.

Got stuff in your life that needs sorting out? Want to get more productive with your iPhone? <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2009/06/16/the-freelancers-iphone/">TUAW have a little round-up of some productivity apps for the iPhone.</a>

Dual core ARM CPUs will hit the iPhone and other mobile devices this time next year. My nerd loins tingle at the prospect of a dual core CPU in my pocket. <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10263278-64.html">Cnet has details on the ARM Cortex A9</a>, which is the lead up to the Cortex A8 in the iPhone 3G S.

Remember that awesome app wall art installation at WWDC? <a href="http://www.peterbelanger.com/posts/28-wwdc-video">Peter Belanger stuck his camera infront of it for a few hours and created a time lapse video</a> of the people looking at it and the blipping icons. Very schmick.

John O'Brien (who is a MacTalk member!) has written a <a href="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25644933-8362,00.html">review for the Courier Mail about the iPod Shuffle</a> and how while it's the cheapest iPod and relatively boring, it's also quite fascinating that it's been distilled to the state it exists in now.

<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5287426/the-iphone-is-a-pretty-damn-big-platform-to-develop-games-for">The iPhone/iPod Touch has solid more units than the Xbox 360</a> and almost as much as the Wii and PSP. An interesting perspective with the iPhone and iPod Touch becoming more popular as a gaming device.

North Carolina's governor has <a href="http://www.governor.state.nc.us/NewsItems/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?newsItemid=447">confirmed that Apple will be building a data centre</a> in the state. What it's for, we don't know, but we know for damn sure that Apple need it.

<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5272247/msi-x340-review-the-unemployed-mans-macbook-air">Gizmodo compare the MSI X340 to the MacBook Air.</a> The X340 is supposed to be a MacBook Air, but cheaper and without OS X. It's way cheaper actually, US$900 vs US$1400. Of course, the MSI fails to compete in areas beyond price. You get what you pay for it seems.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCo6-KhZT4">Some guys on YouTube made a Mac Pro and a 24" LCD be a pretty damn good iPhone emulator.</a> I have no idea how it was done, but they did it.