Remains of the Day: Got your numbers

30.06.2011
The iPad reaches an app milestone, the source of Thunderbolt's celerity is revealed, and Twitter users are ridiculously prolific. We know: The remainders for Thursday, June 30, 2011 will always be number one in your heart.

(MacStories)

There are now 100,000 apps designed specifically for the iPad on the App Store--that's in the 15 months since the device's introduction. The good news? iPad users now have their choice of thousands of Twitter clients, to-do applications, and Angry Birds clones. The bad news? Ditto.

(iFixit)

$50 for a cable might seem high, but isn't just some dumb wire; it's "active cabling" with firmware-bearing microchips embedded in its connectors. Those chips help the protocol attain --that is, making jealous.

(Twitter)