Has anyone else noticed that Jailbreakme.com, the site that lets you instantly jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch so you can install third party applications, can’t be reached from Apple stores? On Friday we tried accessing the site from desktops, iPod Touchs and iPhones within the Apple store, using the stores Wi-Fi network and couldn’t access the site. We tried pinging the site and the IP address resolved properly but we weren’t even able to ping the site. The only way we were able to get to the site was over AT&T’s EDGE network from the stores display model iPhones.

Is this happening to anyone else from their local Apple retail store? Has anyone found any other iPhone hacking related sites that are banned by Apple?

What’s hot with Apple right now? The AppleTV. It’s everywhere! Every electronics site on the internet is talking about it. We had the chance to check it out at Apple’s new New York City Apple Store and it was pretty cool. The monitors they had it hooked up to were super high res and most of the movies on there played back nicely. But the real reason there’s so much buzz around the AppleTV is because people are hacking the crap out of it! People are doing things we never would have thought of with it and have even turned it into a full fledged desktop computer. For $299 you can’t beat the price!

Just this week Apple introduced 8-core Mac Pro desktop workstations! That’s some serious processing power!

There’s also a lot of talk about Adobe’s release of Creative Suite 3 for OS X. We’re looking forward to finally having a Universal Binary version of Photoshop that runs natively on Intel CPUs. It took Adobe almost two years to port CS over to Intel! So for any kind of graphics work, you’ll see a huge improvement with CS3.

The iPod shuffle must be doing really well this Spring because I’m seeing it everywhere. They were flying off the shelves at the Apple Story in New York. If you don’t already have some sort of iPod, you should look into the iPod shuffle because it’s only $79 now and holds 1GB of music.

Apple is one of the hottest companies of 2007. With all the attention Apple’s been getting lately there are more and more sites popping up covering everything Apple. So how do you weed out the junk and find the best Mac resources? Here’s our list of the 10 must have Apple links for when you need Apple news, information, software or help.

1. The Official Apple Discussion Forums are filled with thousands of Macintosh and iPod users from around the world. If you have any sort of question about your Apple product, this is the place to go.

2. The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has tons of Mac product info and plenty of tips and advice on everything Apple.

3. Digg is a social media site, where users submit stories and other users vote on which ones make the homepage. Apple is consistently one of the most popular topics.

4. VersionTracker is the best site for free third-party Apple applications and demos of shareware applications. If it’s not on VersionTracker, it’s probably not out there.

5. Apple’s Wikipedia entry provides a very nice, in depth, history of Apple Inc.

6. Macworld publishes a print magazine dedicated to Apple. These people eat, sleep, and breathe Mac.

7. MacRumor’s Buyers Guide lets you know when you should or shouldn’t buy you next piece of Apple hardware.

8. VLC for Mac OS X is what Quicktime should be. If you have any videos that you can’t play properly with Quicktime, then VLC is for you.

9. Technorati will help you find any Apple related news or tags across the entire Blogosphere.

10. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site where you can browse Apple sites bookmarked by users all around the world. The things you can find here are endless!