Apple stock surpassed $400 a share again last Friday, bringing their market cap to $371.30 billion. That $371,300,000,000 is worth more than each of the following things:

• All 32 Eurozone Banks
• The Entire Economy of Singapore
• All of the Illegal Drugs in the World
• Total U.S. Corporate Income Tax for 2011
• The GDP of Denmark
• The Great Wall of China (priced at $0.52 a brick)
• The Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Stephen King, and Twilight Franchises – combined, plus another $300 billion
• All of the Farm Land in Iowa & South Dakota, at $4200 per acre
• The Total Endowments of the USA’s 13 Richest Universities and University Systems
• 45 days of global oil consumption
• The Cost of America’s Obesity Epidemic
• Every home in Detroit and Tampa combined
• The big three drug makers; Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, and Pfizer, combined
• Every home in Atlanta
• 10 times the total paid in federal child support in the U.S. last year
• The five largest ETFs (exchange-traded funds)
• 10 years of Silver Production
• The GDP of Israel, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon – combined

This interesting (and ongoing) list comes from a tumblr blog that is appropriately titled ThingsAppleIsWorthMoreThan, well worth a follow just for the amusement factor alone.

If you accidentally deleted a voicemail on an iPhone, you can usually retrieve these messages by looking through a somewhat unknown “Deleted Messages” list. Here’s how to access this:

• Tap on Phone and “Voicemail” as usual
• Scroll all the way to the bottom of the voice messages list and look for and tap onto “Deleted Messages”
• Find and select the voicemail you want to listen to or recover:
• Play: Tap on the voicemail message and then the play button to listen to it, or
• Recover: Tap on the message and then choose “Undelete” to move the voicemail back to the stored list and out of Deleted Messages

The iPhone will actually store all deleted voicemails in this list as long as you haven’t gone through here before and selected “Clear All” – which permanently trashes all deleted messages – making it fairly easy to recover voicemail that you’ve deleted from the main messages list.

If you’re curious about more technical details, iPhone voicemails are stored as .amr files on the phone itself at:

/private/var/mobile/Library/Voicemail

That directory isn’t available to users without using a third party tool, or without using ftp to access a jailbroken iPhone. The messages are also contained within the standard iPhone backup which is stored locally on the synced computer, but they’re not easily read or listened to since they are contained within database files much like the SMS files.

I’ve had an iPhone since they first came out, but I wasn’t aware of this feature until TUAW mentioned it in a post. Great tip!

This reader submitted minimalist Mac setup comes from Danny B, it’s a MacBook Pro 17″ turned into desktop workstation thanks to the connected Apple 24″ Cinema Display, wireless keyboard, and Magic Mouse.

Thanks for sending this in Danny!

You can submit your own Mac setup to us at osxdailycom@gmail.com, we’re receiving a ton of reader submitted setups, so if you haven’t seen yours appear yet just be patient.

Google’s Chrome browser has been updated to support two native OS X Lion features; full screen support and overlay scrollbars. These features have been available in the unstable developer channels but now they’re finally released in the stable build, meaning you no longer need to use the Maximizer add-on to get full screen in Chrome, and you shouldn’t get stuck in Chromes own full-screen mode any longer.

To get the update, go the Chrome menu and pull down to “About Google Chrome” and then select “Update Now”, or if you don’t actively use Chrome you can download it from Google directly.

AirDrop is the extremely easy local peer-to-peer file transfer tool that is built into Mac OS X 10.7, it allows you to easily send and receive files wirelessly over a network just by dragging and dropping. It’s a great addition to Lion, but it’s not supported on all Macs (some 2008 model MacBook, MacBook Pros, some Mac Pro’s and Mini’s, etc), and most Hackintosh setups also can’t access it… and you can’t use it over Ethernet… until now.

You can enable AirDrop with Ethernet and enable AirDrop support on unsupported Macs running OS X 10.7+ by using the following defaults write command in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1

Paste that in and hit enter. You’ll need to then kill the Finder with ‘killall Finder’ or reboot the Mac for changes to take effect.

What’s really interesting is that this enables AirDrop over both Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet connections, which basically means any machine running Lion can use it whether or not it has a wireless card. As long as it’s connected to the same network you will be able to see the Mac in the AirDrop list of another Mac running 10.7.

If you ever want to disable this for some reason, you can just use:

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 0

This tip comes from a user submission to MacWorld, and attached is a note that you may need to use this command on all Macs that intend to interact with the unsupported Mac, although that doesn’t seem to be the case on all machines.

Don’t forget that you can also change the AirDrop sound effect too.

Just in time for some weekend fun, you can download the wildly popular physics-puzzle-shooter game Portal for free from Steam until September 20.

Download Portal from Steam by going here and clicking the big green “Install Game” button

Portal runs in both Mac OS X and Windows, and once it’s in your Steam account you can download it on other machines if you want.

Here’s the interesting part: the game is offered as a free download until September 20, 2011 as part of the “Learning with Portals” program, where some schools are using the popular video game to help teach physics and critical thinking skills. How cool is that? This blurb from their website explains further:

Today, innovative educators are finding ways to incorporate Portal™ and Portal 2 into their classrooms—helping teach physics and critical-thinking skills. It’s eye-opening to see how video games can be used in amazing and unexpected ways to help educate our next generation.

One of the biggest challenges in teaching science, technology, engineering, and math is capturing the students’ imaginations long enough for them to see all of the possibilities that lie ahead.

Using interactive tools like the Portal series to draw them in makes physics, math, logic, spatial reasoning, probability, and problem-solving interesting, cool, and fun which gets us one step closer to our goal—engaged, thoughtful kids!

If you’re skeptical, Valve put together a video which shows exactly how it’s being used by one 7th grade classroom:

Pretty cool huh?

Check it out yourself, the system requirements are relatively basic and it should run on most recent Macs:

• OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or higher
• 1GB RAM or more
• NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher
• Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

While we’re on the topic of free gaming, if you’re looking for a multiplayer experience, don’t forget that Team Fortress 2 is also a free download from Steam too.

If you want to quickly style your folders or Launchpad with Emoji, you can access the Special Characters panel directly from the Finder in Mac OS X Lion:

• Click on the Finder or the Mac OS X desktop
• Pull down the “Edit” menu and select “Special Characters”

Here’s the weird part, and this could be a bug or maybe it’s intentional, but if you right-click on an item from the Special Characters panel and chose “Copy Character Info”, instead of getting just the icon into your clipboard you’ll get the full unicode and more, like this:

“🎃JACK-O-LANTERN Unicode: U+1F383 (U+D83C U+DF83), UTF-8: F0 9F 8E 83″

You can either just delete all the text after the Emoji character since it appears at the front of the string, or you can just get the icon by doing either of these:

• Drag and drop an icon from the Special Characters panel onto the desktop to create a .textclipping containing the special character or icon
• Drag and drop the character directly into a folder or file name

Even with it’s quirks, this is quicker than using TextEdit or another app to access the Emoji icons.

Thanks to ram who left this tip in our comments!

We already covered how to install Windows 8 in VMWare, and now we’re going to show you how to get Windows 8 running inside of VirtualBox. If you’re wondering why, well, VirtualBox is advantageous for several reasons, the two main being that it’s free and it’s available for all major platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Download these first:

• Windows 8 Developer Preview – download this free from Microsoft Dev Center
• VirtualBox – download this free from Oracle

Put the Win8 ISO somewhere you can find it easily, and install VirtualBox before proceeding. You’ll notice the setup is a bit more complicated than using VMWare, but we’ll walk you through everything so just be patient and you’ll be up and running in no time.

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Wondering how iOS 5 on an iPad 2 goes head to head with a Windows 8 Tablet? This video is a thorough look at the two touch interfaces side-by-side. You can see some of the better Windows 8 features and you can also get excited for iOS 5… but remember that Windows 8 won’t be out until next summer, while iOS 5 will be released very soon…

I wonder where iOS and the iPad will be by the time Windows 8 is released? Don’t forget you can always check out Windows 8 for free yourself too if you’re bit by the curiosity bug.

Video comes from WinRumors via 9to5mac

Thanks to the inclusion of Emoji in OS X Lion, you can now customize the appearance of Finder items by inserting Emoji characters into file and folder names. This offers yet another way to customize the appearance of a Mac OS X 10.7 desktop:

• Launch TextEdit and hit Command+Option+T to access the Emoji characters selector
• Double-click on an Emoji icon you want to use to insert it into a blank text document
• Highlight and copy the inserted Emoji icon with Command+C
• Back in the Mac OS X Finder, click and hover to rename a file or folder, and use Command+V to paste the Emoji icon into the name
• Repeat for other Emoji icons and files or folders

You may want to adjust the text size of file or folder names too so that the emoji is more visible. In the screenshot the font size is set to 16 which provides more detail. You can do this by:

• Go to the “View” menu and choose “Show View Options”
• About halfway down the panel look for “Text Size” and set it to accordingly

The text labels are also positioned to the right, which is done directly below text size.

In a similar customization, you can also use Emoji in Launchpad folder names.