Apple posted this PDF today showing the economic impact its current and future facilities have on Cupertino.

App Camp for Girls wants to address the gender imbalance among software developers by giving girls the chance to learn how to build apps, to be inspired by women instructors, and to get exposure to software development as a career. Our goal is to grow our non-profit organization into a national force, with programs in multiple cities, helping thousands of girls.

Much respect to Jean MacDonald.

Fraser Speirs uses his experience in education to give some suggestions for iOS 7.

This is a great list. The more I mix a song, the worse it seems to get because after a while you just keep tweaking until there is nothing left to the original magic of the song. That’s when I usually walk away for a few days and come back refreshed.

According to WBZ sports reporter Dan Roche, the pilot on his JetBlue flight from the Steel City back to Boston did a little gloating himself.

It’s way too early to say the Boston Bruins have won the series, but this is classic.

It’s great to see Reeder’s developer Silvio Rizzi adding support for these services.

Katie Marsal:

The U.S. Department of Justice’s opening statements in its antitrust lawsuit against Apple have been published online, laying the groundwork for what the government hopes will prove illegal collusion between Apple and book publishers that led to higher prices.

I think the DOJ is going to have a tough time proving this. Tim Cook recently said at the D Conference that Apple wouldn’t admit to something they didn’t do. Cook is going to fight this and good for them.

Love it.

MindNode is an easy to use and elegant mind mapping app for iOS and OS X. Whether you’re brainstorming for your next project, organizing your life, or taking notes during a meeting, MindNode lets you collect, structure, and expand your ideas. And integrated iCloud sharing means you always have your mind maps with you.

You can learn more about MindNode here.

iMore is one of the sites that includes some great photography in its posts. Over the weekend they put together a story from several of its writers detailing what gear they use to shoot and edit.

Michael Mulvey:

In the 2010’s photo, the connection is no longer one-to-one between the audience and the performers. A middleman has been inserted between the two sides. What this means is the priority is to capture a great version of what’s happening, not to experience the performance.

Just look at those two photos. I’m guilty of doing this at recent shows too.

This is clearly something you’ll need if you’re attending WWDC.

Artem Minayev wrote an interesting article that looks at different elements of a Website and what their design says about you.

Joe Mullin for Ars Technica:

Court documents unsealed this week reveal who’s behind FlatWorld, and it’s anything but typical. FlatWorld is partly owned by the named inventor on the patents, a Philadelphia design professor named Slavko Milekic. But 35 percent of the company has been quietly controlled by an attorney at one of Apple’s own go-to law firms, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. E-mail logs show that the attorney, John McAleese, worked together with his wife and began planning a wide-ranging patent attack against Apple’s touch-screen products in January 2007—just days after the iPhone was revealed to the world.

That’s almost too crazy to believe.

At the upcoming Black Hat security conference in late July, three researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology plan to show off a proof-of-concept charger that they say can be used to invisibly install malware on a device running the latest version of Apple’s iOS.

Sounds like pretty James Bond-y stuff. It’ll be interesting to see more in July.

io9:

We’re used to seeing modern landmarks in their completed glory, but we gain a new appreciation for those familiar monuments when we see them in progress, and remember all the labor that went into bringing them to life.

It’s one of those freak occurrences that spawns unfathomable tragedy. Andrew Scott Reisse was a VR computer graphics engineer working on the Oculus Rift, a project which he helped to co-found. He was struck and killed in a crosswalk four miles away from his office at the end of a police chase. Three suspects tried to flee on foot from their Dodge Charger after Reisse was hit, but all were captured by police.

What a tragic, stupid loss.

For the uninitiated, the Oculus Rift is a VR headset for 3D games. It’s in development and it holds a lot of promise.

It’s not “Do it my way or else,” but more maneuvering the situation until he’s ready to close.

Philip Elmer Dewitt:

Although Apple (AAPL) hasn’t released a new iPad or iPhone in seven months, and Samsung claims it shipped 10 million new Galaxy S4s in May, Android’s Web share slipped a bit month over month while Apple’s edged up, according to a NetApplications report issued Saturday.

[Editor’s note – the original version of this post said “Android market share.” Corrected to reflect web share instead.]

By non-techie, I mean she isn’t an engineer, programmer, analyst or reporter. It’s pretty clear she has a good handle on things though.

Thanks to RemObjects for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS this week. Oxygene for Cocoa is a new and modern programming language and development tool chain for creating Mac and iOS apps.

It is not a bridge or an abstraction layer, but full-featured language for the Objective-C runtime, giving you direct access to all the great APIs of the platform and letting you create truly native (in every sense of the word) apps.

The language is based on Object Pascal (but this is not your daddy’s Pascal!), it is well-rounded and provides many advanced language features that will change the way you look at writing code.

And as if that was not enough: if you are so included, the same great language also lets you natively target Android/Java and .NET development, as well – time-proven and well established on those platforms for many years.

Find out more at remobjects.com/oxygene.

Gabe Weatherhead:

Rather than throw out a bunch of alternatives that I’ve never used more than five minutes, I’ll give you my opinions from the ground up. This post begins with the winner, Newsblur.

Great in-depth review.

Kristina Bjoran:

Startups are a special breed. I’ve worked with startups at varying stages of their life cycles, and I’ve become fascinated with what determines success. I’ve identified a few elements that can be controlled.

Sonic Port delivers inspiring guitar tones and best-in-class audio quality on your iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. Jam with the tones of your favorite artists, connect keyboards and speakers to create your mobile recording studio, or plug into your amp and play live. Every time, Sonic Port gives you pro-quality sound with GarageBand, Line 6 Mobile POD, Jammit and other CoreAudio music apps.

This looks incredible. I’m getting one.