MacGeekery at its finest!
According to DataCenterKnowledge apparently Apple is planning on spending some of its billion dollar cash on hand to build a US$1 billion data center on the East Coast, either in North Carolina or Virginia (as they battle to legislate the best incentive packages).
With thanks to David for the link.
Apple Australia are sponsoring some Community eWaste recycling events, 6-7th June 2009 in Perth and 27-28 June 2009 in Brisbane. Those in Victoria can drop items off at Byteback
If you look in
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskImages.framework/Versions/A/Resources/
you will find a DiskImages.prefPane, which when you double click it will load it as a preference pane offering pre- and post-processing and encryption options for disk images.
Of course, as it’s in a Private Framework, you get what you deserve if you use it.
Has anyone else noticed that the Palm Pre is being released on June 6th (US$199.99 after rebate on Sprint)? Which should give them a whole 2 days of sales before Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) starts on June 8th and quite possibly a new iPhone revision is announced.
It seems brewer Lion Nathan is switching its fleet from Blackberries to iPhones (as reported by news.com.au’s AustralianIT section).
Optus increase of 17.1% year over year for the last quarter was partially attributed to iPhone earnings, according to The Australian’s IT section. However their EBITDA was down 5% due to offering subsidies to attract new iPhone customers.
If you can’t get away from your databases, you can at least talk to them from your iPhone using the iPhone version of jHeidi (presumably not using Java on the iPhone…). Supports Oracle and MySQL, only $3.99.
Pictures of an award winning chandelier made from old Apple laptop styrofoam packaging. Bonus points if you can identify which products they were from 🙂 via Make.