Links for Friday June 18^th, 2010

• Revealed: Inside the Chinese suicide sweatshop where workers toil in 34-hour shifts to make your iPod: I disagree with much of this article in terms of tone and focus on Apple (HP and Dell are two other major Foxconn customers, for example), but it does appear to shed some light on working conditions inside of the Foxconn factory in Shenzen.

• Sizing up the iPhone 4 for shutterbugs: In-depth look at the technical details of the camera in the new iPhone 4. Sounds good to me.

• How to Install Adobe Flash V10.1 with VoiceOver: One of the most over-looked aspects of this whole Flash debate is how it destroys accessibility for those that have impaired vision.

• Teardowns of 2010 Mac Mini Standard and Server models, Notes on special HD Cable/Sensors: I classify any hard drive swap that involves scraping sensors off of the old disk, and gluing them onto the new one, as "difficult".

• RAW 720p video from an iPhone 4: Looks awesome — but there doesn't appear to be any of the automatic stabilization technology that a modern video camera brings into play. Still, the quality of this video clearly rivals that of my Sony DSC-WX1.

• Audi Sound Concept: one car, 62 speakers: I want to go in there. (via Engadget)

• A closer look shows Apple's A4 is "tailored," not "bespoke": Some interesting details continue to emerge about Apple's A4 CPU. I think the reason why Apple is getting into the CPU game is about control: they control when the CPU is available, what features it has, and can balance the processing elements between normal general purpose computing, and graphics.