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Joey Devilla argues that netbooks sit in a "zone of suck" between smartphones and laptops, making them a useless device after the initial "hey that's cool" period wears off. I agree.

Remember the buzz around ZFS being part of Snow Leopard? Well, ZFS is nowhere to be seen in the new OS. All references in marketing guff to ZFS, are gone too. Kind of a shame, many people were looking forward to it. Some thing smells fishy

Another ridiculous App Store rejection via TUAW - making pixel versions of famous people is apparently offensive.

The iPhone 3GS has a beefy graphics chipset from PowerVR, and ubergizmo get into some detail of it's features. Due to support for OpenGL ES 2.0, it can do some high-end graphics stuff never before seen on a mobile device. Developers may have to create two versions of a game, one for the advanced capabilities of the 3GS and a regular one for the other iPhones and iPod Touches.

The iPhone 3GS has a compass. Pretty lame right? Well, no actually - it brings a new level of accuracy in a consumer device that not only is popular, but is hooked up to the internet too. News-Wyrdy has published an essay on how the 3GS and it's compass are game changers in the realm of location-based services.

AppleInsider take a closer look at the CPU being used in the iPhone 3GS - the Cortex-AR8. It's got a higher clock frequency, more cache and is quasi-dual-core. Apple's claims of double performance aren't just hot air, it actually will be twice as fast in real-world use.

MacTalkers have been busy making some iPhone apps lately - ShiftyJelly have just released an app called Drink Tracker, so you can keep track of how much booze you've ingested and make sure your blood isn't full of alcohol. Bok, who you may know from iTransit, has released tramTracker, the official Yarra Trams iPhone app.

Speaking of Bok - he found these great iPhone stencils for OmniGraffle. Great for doing app UI layout.

DVD Jon's latest endeavor - doubleTwist, has taken it to the man, by placing an ad right under the flagship Apple store in San Francisco, of which the space is owned by BART, not by Apple, to advertise doubleTwist.

TidBITS has some valuable info on how to recover photos off an erased memory card. Very handy indeed.