Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Desktops , OS , Software , Odds and ends , Apple , MacBook Most electronics industry analysis is obvious at best and misinformed at worst , but this one made us chuckle. Analyst firm Broadpoint AmTech has released a report that claims that, rather than diminish sales of OS X, Microsoft’s impending release of Windows 7 may actually help sell Macs .

Geohot had released blackra1n, an extremely simple and easy tool to jailbreak any iPhone and iPod Touch running iPhone OS 3.1.2 but it did not preserve the baseband, which is important for users who want to unlock their iPhone. iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool 3.1.4 for Mac, which supports..

Filed under: Apple Financial , iPhone The iPhone is selling well in Australia. Research firm IDC reports that the iPhone has taken 21% of the Australian smartphone market share in the past 12 months, putting Apple in 2nd place behind Nokia and just ahead of Blackberry. What’s most interesting here is how the iPhone has increased overall smartphone shipments to Australia

The art of automata is all about making beautiful mechanical objects out of wood and other materials. When Murtaza Lakdawala discovered automata, he also got inspiration for a neat project: a hand-cranked rotating stand for his iPhone.

iMovie 8.0.5, released Tuesday, improves compatibility with importing video captured on the new camera-equipped iPod nanos, among other changes.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Apple TV Editor’s Note: There has been a lot of speculation around the future of Apple TV, even though Apple has called it a “hobby” for now. There has also been an extraordinary amount of speculation around an Apple-branded tablet device. Josh Doody has a background in technology, with undergraduate degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering, experience in engineering, product management and development, and is currently an MBA candidate at the University of Florida

Over 6 million songs in the iTunes Music Store. God knows how many albums that translates to, but we must be insane to try and pick 20 albums worth considering for their combination of music and artwork, right? As long as we’ve got that straight on the front-end, then.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Humor , Software , Odds and ends , Developer , Deals , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch I like the way Schiau Studios thinks — when customers complained about the price of their $2.99US App Store game Alchemize , they raised the price up to $39.99 . Over on the TouchArcade forums, they make their case : most devs, they say, when faced with complaints about price, will just lower their price even though their software is already cheap

PwnageTool for Mac has been updated to version 3.1.4 by the DevTeam. This new update basically adds firmware 3.1.2 jailbreak support.

A new, free app from Viper lets you start your car from your iPhone or iPod touch.

Using this music-making app can be a challenge at first, especially given the real estate available on the iPhone’s screen. But once you learn JR Hexatone Pro, it is actually one of the best music apps available at the App Store

We’ve all customized our iPhones to fit our personality, but how about the ultimate: your DNA? A French company is now offering to turn your DNA code into an iPhone wallpaper. All it takes is a bit of genetic code via a mouth swab (provided by the company, Helys.) Pick the perfect hue among several

Filed under: Software As you probably recall, Microsoft dropped Visual Basic from Office for the Mac with Office 2008. At the time, I was working for a company that had a huge investment in systems that relied on Visual Basic, and that change was a real blow