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I recently wrote about Postbox, a new email client. It was then a private beta, but a public beta has now been released. Grab it now at postbox-inc.com.

Postbox brings innovative new features to easily find pictures and other files, but also how to get things done.

I still use Apple Mail and Gmail for daily email handling, but I will definitely try Postbox again now that a new version has been released.

• New Post: Twitter Updates for 2009-01-27 #
• @joacimhagg Twinkle used their own service, thus only show Twinkle users. TwitterFon and others use search.twitter.com. in reply to joacimhagg #
• @joacimhagg I assume. in reply to joacimhagg #
• @joacimhagg Yes, TwitterFon is definitely my favorite iPhone app for Twitter. #
• @sh http://twitpic.com/18919 – Looks great! #
• Förlägg alla EU-toppmöten till Svea Rikes reservhuvudstad! – http://tr.im/db1x #
• @dth yey! Good luck! in reply to dth #
• @naddi @dth is very secretive, but I’ve got the inside scoop. He will probably make it official soon though. ? in reply to naddi #
• New Post: Instapaper, or how to read stuff later http://tinyurl.com/awxda3 #
• @Raiha Wow, a super nice WordPress theme you found there! #
• @dth I hope it goes well! I can see that the old one has been taken down now at least. #

• New Post: Twitter Updates for 2009-01-27 #
• @joacimhagg Twinkle used their own service, thus only show Twinkle users. TwitterFon and others use search.twitter.com. in reply to joacimhagg #
• @joacimhagg I assume. in reply to joacimhagg #
• @joacimhagg Yes, TwitterFon is definitely my favorite iPhone app for Twitter. #
• @sh http://twitpic.com/18919 – Looks great! #
• Förlägg alla EU-toppmöten till Svea Rikes reservhuvudstad! – http://tr.im/db1x #
• @dth yey! Good luck! in reply to dth #
• @naddi @dth is very secretive, but I’ve got the inside scoop. He will probably make it official soon though. ? in reply to naddi #
• New Post: Instapaper, or how to read stuff later http://tinyurl.com/awxda3 #
• @Raiha Wow, a super nice WordPress theme you found there! #
• @dth I hope it goes well! I can see that the old one has been taken down now at least. #

• Twitter Updates for 2009-01-26 http://tinyurl.com/cc3cop #
• @dth there have been some Twitter problems. The new TwitterFon works fine for me. in reply to dth #
• @naddi tur! Det är ju lite lotto ibland när man åker buss. in reply to naddi #
• @dth Not sure why Metro decided to include Jaiku in their little comparison. It is shutting down after all. in reply to dth #
• @Raiha They seem to be reporting lots of people for no reason. They should be reported themselves! Preferably by them self. in reply to Raiha #
• New Post: WordPress Twitter integration http://tinyurl.com/aw827t #
• RT @frebro: http://vimeo.com/2696386 Really good video detailing the history of the Internet from 1957 to 2009, in easy to understand terms. #
• @eilla a kitten! #
• @eilla cuteness defined! http://twitpic.com/17t57 in reply to eilla #
• @eilla It depends I guess. From about a year to lifetime. 🙂 #
• @raawmarkus That’s what I usually do on the high-volume feeds. Just click the button and pretend it never happened. #
• @eilla It kind of matters how much time you have to spare too. A cat can cope on it’s own for a day where as a dog needs to be walked etc. ? in reply to eilla #
• RT @raawmarkus: It seems like iPhone version 2.2.1 was just released. Bug fixes, of course. #
• Even though iPhone 2.2.1 is released, do as always and wait for the dev-team to investigate at http://tr.im/d4a9 #
• @dth Have you acquired the new headphones? What do you think of them? in reply to dth #
• @eilla you seem to have had some interesting bfs to say the least. ? in reply to eilla #
• @dth Too bad. You’ll never get your headphones it seems. #
• @eilla Maybe you should get a puppy then. You seem to know how to handle them. 🙂 #
• @kn3pp well, if I remember correctly, it has already been a month. The main reason I want him to get them is for the review. I need new ones in reply to kn3pp #
• Does anyone have any first impressions of iLife 09? #
• @frebro Ok, I should definitely not try EVE Online. It looks way too fun! #

• Heading back to work after a nice lunch in the city. #
• @Raiha I bet someone will create four rouge accounts and friend you, just for the sake of a beer. 🙂 #
• @Raiha I guess, but how would you know? #
• @cassiopeja The easiest way is to use Cydia. #
• @Raiha it seems you have an interesting conundrum on your hands. 🙂 in reply to Raiha #
• RT @kevinrose: My Top 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers: http://bit.ly/qhBN #
• @kn3pp it seems that Twitter is having problems at the moment. #
• what’s your favorite old school game? xjump #favoldgame #
• http://twitpic.com/17mey – My Dreamhost site was running a bit slow. I found out why… #
• New post: Postbox – a new take on email? http://tr.im/cwno #
• Hmm, where did the snow come from. ? http://twitpic.com/17muh #

OS X 10.5.6 has now been released! Lots of things has been updated, and some highlights follow:

• Address Book
• Airport
• iChat
• Graphics
• Mail
• MobileMe
• Time Machine
• Safari
• … and more!

Macrumors has the details on their forum.

Some people have been reporting problems with the update as usual. If in trouble, just get the Combo Update directly from Apple.

WordPress 2.7 was recently released, and now even I have made the upgrade! If you follow my blog, you probably know that I just love WordPress (even with the bugs in Safari), and with the 2.7 upgrade it has gotten even better!

The whole admin backend is completely rewritten to among other things make it faster to navigate. The WordPress blog writes the following about the 2.7 version:

The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version.

Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.

Upgrading to the newest release was easy as ever, since I track the Subversion tree. I just run the “svn switch” command, and presto — Subversion changes the release!

The following video shows more new features in the new admin interface, such as one-click WordPress upgrade and changeable interface.

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So go ahead and download WordPress now!

So the new iPhone 2.2 firmware was released this morning, and here are the news:

Enhancements to Google Maps

• Street view
• Public transit and walking directions
• Display address of dropped pins
• Share location via email

Enhancements to Mail

• Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
• Improved formatting of wide HTML email

Other

• Improved stability and performance of Safari
• Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wifi and 3G)
• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Improved sound quality of visual voice mail messages
• Pressing the Home screen button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
• Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings

The best news is that they seem to have fixed the auto-fetch for Mail which broke with the 2.1 update!

Update 2008-11-21 13:40

So, as anticipated our friends the misfits have recently released the long awaited 2.2 update. We can confirm that this update SHOULD NOT be applied using iTunes if you want the chance of a soft-unlock in the near future.

If you want to keep that option of a ‘soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2.2 using a PwnageTool created custom ipsw file that disables the baseband update. You will be able to do this using an updated version of PwnageTool that will be released sometime soon.

Oh no…

Update 2008-11-22 15:43

iLounge.com has an in-depth review of the changes in the 2.2 update.

Update 2008-11-23 11:58

QuickPwn for 2.2 released!

WordPress for iPhone has been released, making it super easy to post to your WordPress blog on the go!

There have been reports on the iPhone crashing when using international characters such as åäö, but it will surely be fixed soon.

I will write a review when I have the opportunity to try it myself.

WordPress 2.6 has just been released, bringing lots of new features and polish as usual. The following video from the WordPress website will give you a tour on what has changed.

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I have not updated yet, but will be doing it very shortly.

The time has come for the new Ubuntu version to be released. The Gutsy Gibbon is here with lots of new features including desktop search, NTFS writing, encrypted hard disks and AppArmor. You can read more about the new features in the release notes.

Updating to 7.10 is very easy and just involves starting the update manager and press upgrade.

If you don’t want to upgrade or is doing a new installation, just head over to Ubuntu.com and download your ISO image now!

There was a small meetup in Stockholm yesterday with people from the Ubuntu-SE forums and #ubuntu-se IRC channel. My camera photos did not turn out very well, but hopefully someone else will have some images.

The Ubuntu-centric magazine Full Circle Magazine released their fourth issue earlier this week. Of course there is lots of new interesting content as usual, but this time there is another thing to take note of.

The format of the magazine has wandered away from the regular A4/letter format and uses a format perfect for on-screen reading. This is some serious thinking outside the box, and makes for some interesting design opportunities, and constraints.

Great work as always!

Edit: Ops, I accidentally wrote the wrong issue number.