Scott Klarr pointed out joining Apple Development Connection may save you big bucks on your next Apple pro system (Mac Book Pro 17 and Mac Pro).

Example a Basic 17 inch MacBook Pro / Basic Mac Pro

• You will Save $61 (after membership cost) with an ADC Select Membership
• You will Save $361 (after membership cost) with a Student ADC Membership

Once you start putting heavy options in a system, discounts become even greater, example a maxed out system Mac Pro gives a discount of over $6,000 with ADC.

ADC Membership Prices

Student ADC (Best Value, but only for people in college)

• $99.00 a year
• Must Prove your a student at a college or university.
• 1 Discounted System a Year

Select Membership (Good Value if your not in college)

• $499.00 a year
• 1 Discounted System a Year

ADC Premier Membership (Great discount if your buying for an office)

• $3,499 a year
• 10 Discounted Systems a Year

To Check out the discount Prices yourself, check the ADC Store. On top of the discount, you get other nice goodies (depending on the Membership type).

Amosu, a company that likes to bling bling electronics, puts out an iPhone with diamonds. The iPhone has 420 grade F diamonds for 20,000 GBP ($39,531 US dollars). Theres only one problem… Diamonds may be forever, but technology never is.

Apples most recent patent of illuminated touch pads may not be for the iPod as other sites suggest, but rather for a smaller and less expensive iPhone (iPhone Nano). If you take a look at the diagrams from an older Apple patent touch pad with symbols based on mode, you will notice the telephone touch pad matches the illuminated touch pad patent. Pictured below are both patents together, see the similarities (pointed out in orange).

Please note the two pictured patents above are owned by apple and I’m using this just for blogging purposes.

1Password, Macs most popular password manager released version 2.5.9 today.

New Startup Screen

Password Strength Bars

Better Interface

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