Wow! I just received a message from MacHeist people – they give away licenses for Delicious Library 2 to everyone who purchased the MacHeist 3 bundle. I bought several days ago, as soon as I learnt about it on Twitter. It  includes several great applications I was already considering to buy on my own so I could not resist the temptation and bought the whole bundle for “the insanely low price of $39″.

Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline.com did a great overview of the software packages comprising the bundle.

In my personal opinion, the best applications in the bundle are:

• Acorn – powerful graphics editor, as in “PhotoShop for humans”
• WireTap Studio – the ultimate recording utiltity, as in “podcaster’s dream”
• Picturesque makes your images gorgeous, as in “wow! who did this?”
• PhoneView opens up your iPhone, as in “16GB flash drive”

There are other great applications that I am also excited about – like BoinxTV, a TV studio in your Mac, and Espresso, a fresh new web development tool – but they have not been unlocked yet. Let us wait…

By the way, they say that 25% of all sales goes to charity, and you can even choose which charity organizations your money goes to. It is a great cause – keep up the good work, guys!

Anyway, I am blown away by the Delicious Library 2 deal – it feels like getting that shiny new toy you were dreaming of the whole year under the Christmas tree in your childhood. Wow!

Quick – only 4 days left! Go get your copy now.

I am writing this from my iPhone, using just released WordPress native application for iPhone. It is available via iTunes AppStore and it is free!

Если вы смотрели презентацию MacBook Air на Macworld Expo 2008 или рекламный ролик на сайте Apple, то наверняка помните бумажный конверт, из которого Стив Джобс достает сам ноутбук.

Так вот – шустрые господа из компании Timbuk2 быстренько сделали чехол для оного ноутбука в виде такого конверта.

Timbuk2 – Steve Sleeve

(Via 43folders)

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… или С лёгким паром!, версия 1.01 (декабрь 2007 года)

For the past month or so, I have been posting to my other blog only – over at TypePad.

I am kind of torn between TypePad and WordPress now – as I like WordPress interface better, but TypePad has some features I like, too. I am still not convinced which one I would keep as primary one…  

Anyway, for now – please go to my TypePad blog. 

I just came across two interesting articles that compare Apple iPhone vs. Palm Treo 650 and iPhone vs. Blackberry. Both authors have a lot of experience using Treo and Blackberry, respectively, and add a lot of insight. It was particularly interesting for me to see iPhone from the point of view of Treo and Blackberry users as I currently use both Treo 650 and Blackberry 7230.

Worth reading!

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A video was posted by iPhoneUnlocking.com that shows a process of software unlocking of an iPhone. The video quality is very poor (shot with Nokia N95) but at least you can see all the steps required: 

A short demo of hacked iPhone running several third-party apps: e-book reader, game, IM client. Very promising!  

After playing with several of free and commercial blog hosting services, here are some results:

• WordPress - currently primary blog, will keep it. I may decide to host a WordPress-based blog myself in the future. It looks like 
  
• TypePad - very powerful, I am tempted to keep it for $4.95/month – still have 5 days to decide whether to keep it. By the way, I have found a very nice template there – Curves Blue – which I happen to like the most from all the templates for all the services I tried so far…
  
• Vox - will probably keep it for now, but I am not sure if I will ever start using it. I like some of its community features like list of books, etc. but I do not like its heavy layout and ads that I do not control. I may want to play with it for some more time, especially since it shares some features with its bigger brother - TypePad.
• Blogger - will keep it (since it is free) but probably would not use it. Even though it has the cleanest interface of all the services I tried, it is also the most limited in its features – for example, it is not possible to import posts, etc.
• Blogsome - was deleted today without hesitation: it has absolutely no advantages over a regular WordPress-based blog (including a free WordPress.com-hosted blog)