(MacStories)
There are now 100,000 apps designed specifically for the iPad on the App Store--that's in the 15 months since the device's introduction. The good news? iPad users now have their choice of thousands of Twitter clients, to-do applications, and Angry Birds clones. The bad news? Ditto.
(iFixit)
$50 for a cable might seem high, but isn't just some dumb wire; it's "active cabling" with firmware-bearing microchips embedded in its connectors. Those chips help the protocol attain --that is, making jealous.
(Twitter)
Twitter users are now sending 200 million tweets per day, which, the social network says, is the equivalent of 8163 copies of . That's not all the two have in common--nobody's ever finished reading all of those tweets either.
- The latest update to the virtualization app resolves a performance issue with Mac OS X 10.6.8 where some icons displayed incorrectly in the Finder and the Dock. $80.