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Tired of losing your unconnected cables behind your desk, or trying to keep track of which cable goes where? Bluelounge's CableDrops may be the solution.

Wired reports on the latest high profile app removal from the App Store related to nudity. This time, a free app called BeautyMeter was removed due to an inappropriate image of a nude minor.

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MacDailyNews has republished an internal AT&T memo which states that the iPhone 3GS launch day created the best sales day ever in AT&T’s retail stores.

1. Fact of the Week: On June 25, the day Michael Jackson died, text messages sent on our network spiked at 65,000 messages per second — the largest volume ever recorded — surpassing events like American Idol voting and New Year’s Eve, when millions of our customers wish their friends and family a happy new year via text.”

2. “iLaunch day 2009 was one for the record books, as AT∓T customers scrambled to get their hands on the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.

Microsoft has removed an online advertisement for Internet Explorer 8 that showed a woman projectile vomiting because of complaints.

Apple has recently issued what some call a “common sense advisory” warning iPhone 3G and 3GS owners not to use there iPhones in temperatures exceeding 35º C (95º F).

Apple is patching a serious SMS vulnerability in the iPhone, a security researcher said.

Battered, bankrupt, and thought to be wobbling on its last leg, Psystar this week proved that it can still turn heads when it announced that it will soon emerge from Chapter 11 bearing its fastest Mac system yet.

Mailplane 2.0.11

Layers 1.1.1

Mozilla will patch the just-released Firefox 3.5 later this month to stamp out several bugs that went unfixed in the final version of the browser.

FileChute 4.2.3

Can an SD card startup disk be used on any Mac? Roman Loyola does a little bit of testing, and finds the answer may be yes.

Filed under: Multimedia, Odds and ends, iPhone

Remember that time you were on tour with The B-52's and had a great idea for a song, but there was no recording equipment to be found? Oh wait, that was The 88. Well anyway, The 88 recently recorded their latest single with nothing but an iPhone and the Sonoma Wire Works Four Track application, according to The Loop.

A digital rights group is contesting a U.S. music industry association's assertion that royalties are due each time a mobile phone ringtone is played in public.

Apple designer Jonathan Ive revealed some of his secrets this week at an appearance in London.

The Web is aflame with news of overheating iPhone 3GS, but the Apple support document being referenced is two months old.

1001 1.0.18

Greek Radio 1.25

Filed under: Hardware, Apple