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Something about selling out a conference in 10 hours hasn’t sat well with me. Here’s why—what business consisting of more than 10 employees would be able to get approval to purchase conference passes in under ten hours? Unless you’re independent, or work in a super-efficient office, you didn’t have a chance when Apple announced WWDC. A lot of people who should be at WWDC probably still haven’t heard back from upper management yet about whether or not funds are available for their trip.

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Developers took 8 days to buy up all the seating for WWDC last year. A lot has changed between then and now, most notably iPad, iPhone, and Lion bridging the huge gap between geek and technophobe. The result: WWDC 2011 has sold out in 10 hours.

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If you’ve been keeping yourself up to date with the “state of sync” series over at Cultured Code’s Things blog, you can now check out their third installment; they’ve updated their blog.

Long story short, they’re announcing exactly what their syncing service will entail. Things Cloud Sync will exist in the cloud, obviously, and it will be a software upgrade, and free of charge for now. The service may cost you in the future though, so don’t hold your breath.

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TRIM support is vital for Macs with SSDs installed, as it can greatly increase the longevity of the drive. SSDs naturally don’t handle garbage files very well. TRIM support corrects this, giving the drive the ability to get rid of old files much more quickly.

Be sure to check out this great post over at TUAW to learn all about TRIM.

Except for the newest batch of MacBook Pros, Apple’s machines do not support TRIM out of the box, a move that has left many SSD users scratching their heads and shaking their fists.

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Three of Apple’s buildings in Elk Grove, California, have been evacuated due to a bomb threat. Apple Insider is reporting that Apple’s Sacramento Campus (buildings A, B, and C) is currently being swept by police services, and that the building was evacuated at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The buildings under threat include Apple’s returns, finance, and human resources operations. Few details have actually surfaced, but we’ll be sure to keep you up to date once we here more. We’ll be updating this post as news rolls in.

Update: Fox News is reporting that the police have cleared the building, and given the green light. The bomb-sniffing dogs managed to clear the building in 5 hours. Thanks to 7Murdo for sending in the tip.

Article Via Apple Insider

With the news that the iPhone is the most popular camera on the planet today, we thought it would be appropriate to give away a camera application to 5 people.

Camera Plus Pro is an iPhone photography application that lets you not only tag your photos, but also counteract your shaky hands, set timers on photos, and capture photos in burst mode. You also have access to fun filters.

It doesn’t end there though—the application also lets you capture videos and apply fun filters to your videos. Camera Plus Pro also lets you share your photos with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Picasa, as well as YouTube.

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While movies and television shows have been slowly finding their way to Netflix in the Great White North, the heavy hitting blockbuster films seem to be trickling in slower than sap from a maple tree. There are a lot of decent films on Netflix, but not many modern blockbusters make an appearance. Thankfully, that trend might have come to an end today: Netflix Canada has penned a deal with Paramount.

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Apple’s done it again. They’ve cleaned out their stock entirely—The iPad 2 has sold out internationally.

While others are struggling to even bring a device to market, Apple’s continuing to dominate the ‘post-PC’ market with the iPad 2. For a device that was supposed to flop, it’s starting to be pretty obvious that the iPad is here to stay.

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