Apple Releases iPhone Software 2.2.1

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Tuesday afternoon, Apple releases iPhone Software 2.2.1 with bug fixes and improvements including:

  • Improves the general stability of Safari.
  • Fixes an issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll.

This update is available for both iPhone and iPhone 3G.

  • iPhone Software 2.2.1: iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw 245.7MB
  • iPhone 3G Software 2.2.1: iPhone1,2_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw 246.4MB

By convention, iPod touch Software 2.2.1 should also be released today. I don’t have any iPod touch with me as of this moment.

Recap: Steve Jobs, Circuit City, Songsmith, and Palm Pre

There are a lot of news items that I have not writte about yet for the past 7 days. It’s time for me to catch up with them.

Steve Jobs is going on a medical leave of absence.

January 14th, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:

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In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

Circuit City is going out of business after filing Chapter 11. Download the PDF’s below:

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Microsoft Songsmith, and the ad features MacBook Pro.

Songsmith is for Windows OS only, Mac users can cry in the corner; or will they?

Download Songsmith here.

It is so great that it produced music to accompany David Lee Roth.

Palm Pre, the would be savior of Palm.

Palm is back with a new OS and new SmartPhone in the form of Palm Pre. It looks promising so far, and some anti-Apple movement crowd are hoping that Palm Pre would be the iPhone killer.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is in, Shiretoko is out

Release date: December 8th, 2008

Mozilla.org has officially dropped “Shiretoko” as name for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2.

See the new Robot here.

The good folks at Mozilla.org has just released Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. Don’t worry because Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is still free (seriously, has anyone paid for Firefox upgrade/updates?)

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Mozilla Firefox is available for Linux Mac and Windows.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

  • This beta is now available in 54 languages – get your local version and let us know if it looks right.
  • A new Private Browsing Mode that allows you to browse without Firefox storing any traces of where you’ve been – perfect for online holiday shopping!
  • New functions that make it easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or remove all traces of a website.
  • New support for web worker threads.
  • The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is now on by default for web content.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Removed the new tab-switching & preview behavior based on feedback from Beta 1 users
  • Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Get Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 from:

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December, Slow Tech, Huge Comedy Month

Here we are at the last month of 2008. It has been an interesting year for the tech industry. Google has finally released its first operating system; for mobile phone. Apple is going full speed ahead with the iPhone 3G, and the rest of industry trying to match it up. Microsoft is finally responding to Apple’s “Get A Mac” ads, by admitting that all that Apple has been poking fun at are true. Yahoo! is looking down a barrel of a gun playing Russian Roullette, “Buy me still, buy me not.”

Let’s see what else went on in 2008 so far. Obama successfully utilized the Technology (read: Internet) in the Presidential Campaign. The Stock Market took a nose-dive. Metallica released “Death Magnetic” in September. Axl’s Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” is actually released. Wall-E is AWESOME! BlackBerry Storm is unlike any other BlackBerries, it is more iPhone-like with a twist. AVCHD camcorders are gaining ground. Apple ditched FireWire on its new Unibody Aluminum MacBook. Futurama goes High-Def with “Bender’s Game” Blu-Ray.

OK, I’ll add whatever above later.

The point is that that December is usually a slow month for Technology. So I’m focusing on some other things such as the Holiday and Comedy.

The three comedians I’m working with will be having some big shows in December.

Jill-Michele Meleán is having her JillyOnline.com show at the Hollywood Improv on December 9th, 2008.

Darren Carter will be performing in Sacaramento, California and Milwaukee, Wisconsin this December. Check his Web-Site or Blog for dates.

Carlos Alazraqui will be storming Cobbs Comedy Club December 12th and 13th. The week before Christmas, Carlos will be doing huge shows at Hollywood Improv. Mark your Calendar, December 19th and 20th, 2008.