APPLE NEWS

Apple is increasing orders for the iPad 2 and plans to ship 12-14 million during the peak third quarter

Tumblr for iPhone has undergone a total rewrite and brings a new simple interface for managing multiple blogs.

Speaking in London on Tuesday, Penguin Books' CEO John Makinson offers a look at the future of its books on the iPad.

Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable contains a total of 12 larger, inscribed chips, and tons of smaller electronic components.

Mozilla has released a new version of Mozilla Thunderbird, its free and open source email application for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Tapbots has released an update to Tweetbot, their Twitter application for the iPhone.

RBC Capital Markets General Manager Mike Abramsky believes Apple will make the iPhone 3GS available at $0 with contract once the iPhone 5 is released.

A humorous look at the organizational charts of Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle.

Check out this infographic by Mashable that takes a look at the first four years of iPhone.

Industrial designer Michal Bonikowski has created a concept of what the new iPhone 5 might look like.

The first Thunderbolt accessories have been released and users will be happy to know that they can boot from their Thunderbolt drives.

Supplies of the white MacBook are severely constrained ahead of the Mac OS X Lion release and a possible upgrade to the notebook.

Apprupt reports that 95% of iPhone users have updated to iOS 4.

This may be the first wedding photographed and videoed entirely with the iPhone 4.

Microsoft has updated Photosynth, its interactive panorama capture and sharing app for the iPhone.

Samsung has asked the ITC for an import ban against the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Apple says an update to Final Cut Pro X is coming this summer on a new page dedicated to answering common questions about the software.

The iVigilo camera monitoring and alerting Apps provide remote camera security, life casting, baby monitoring and global webcam monitoring applications from the palm of the user's hand.

Speeds allows the users to record routes and see them later on a map. Speed, max speed, average speed, distance and time are all measured.

Jagimo! enables users to create mashups of words and photos with random people from around the world. Share ideas and photos with random people from around the world and enjoy the mashups.

Recover PDF Password supports all versions of Adobe Acrobat up to version 9.X and can recover Unicode passwords.

Giving users the power to quickly sharing and collaborate on projects, Share Board is a flexible mobile solution that equips users with a number of easy to use sharing tools.

Aces lets up to four people play any card game and features voice support so that players can communicate during play.

Sharpshooter is a screenshot utility app which gives the user finer control over using Mac OS X's built-in key combinations.

Cocktail is a digital toolset with a variety of practical features that lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.

Tickets on the Fly allows you to contact the person that owns the tickets directly, insuring the lowest price possible.

Sprinkler Times uses localized scientific data to maintain healthy landscapes, encourage conservation and save homeowners hundreds of dollars a year in needless overwatering.

Focusbar's window will show up on your screen from time to time, reminding you that it is time to work on what you have planned.

Apple will reportedly launch Mac OS X Lion as well as new MacBook Air notebooks on July 19th

Andy Herzfeld, a primary software architect of the Macintosh Operating System, is the designer behind Google+.

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5 via Software Update.

Watch Pope Benedict XVI send a tweet and launch a new Vatican information portal, news.va, using an iPad.

Apple has announced that it will hold its Q3 conference call on July 19th.

Google Labs has posted a new Swiffy utility that converts Flash SWF files to HTML5 for use with the iPhone and iPad.

AT&T documents leaked by the Lulzsec hackers reveal what AT&T plans to charge for its LTE data packages.

Google has just launched a social network to compete with Facebook based on the concept of Circles.

Unhappy Final Cut Pro X customers have begun demanding their money back and Apple is reportedly processing refunds despite the 'all sales are final' App Store policy.

Comex has updated JailbreakMe.com, again hinting that his rumored jailbreak for the iPad 2 may arrive soon.

Code references in Final Cut Pro X reveal that Apple is already working on an import function for XML files from FCP7.

Rovio has hired David Maisel, Executive Producer of Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America, as its Executive Producer of future Angry Birds films.

70% of the world is not being addressed by the current iPhone as it currently stands

Opera, a popular web browser, has been updated with a new sleeker look, improved HTML5 support, and new Speed Dial Extensions.

Apple has begun selling the Thunderbolt powered Promise Pegasus RAID System and a Thunderbolt cable on the Apple Store.

Sony has announced the new VAIO Z Series notebook which features a Thunderbolt powered media dock.

Mac OS X 10.6.8 brings TRIM support for Solid State Drives from Apple and some graphics improvements.

Apple has issued a Thunderbolt Firmware Update for devices that feature the new high speed port.

Top Fruit has created a giant iPhone 5 using nothing but fruit.

Video editor Jeffery Harrell posted this video on his experience trying to use Final Cut Pro X.