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Yesterday Lenovo offered X200 notebooks with a 70$ saving if you took the 128 SSD option (and 830$ additional costs if you took the 60GB SSD). Today the ThinkPad R400 and almost all options are for free.

Lenovo will most likely not send you the items if you order them since this is clearly a database problem. So please don’t abuse it.

Somehow I’ve missed the update for the OpenOffice 3.0.0 Beta. Nonetheless Beta 2 is now available which features — just like Beta 1 already did — a native mac ui and does no longer use the X11 framework.

Key Features of VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 2

Since the launch of VMware Fusion 1.0, we’ve listened to what our users say they already love, and what they want more of. These features are the results of that feedback.

• Unity 2.0: Mac-Windows Integration
• Multiple Snapshots and AutoProtect
• Usability Enhancements

• Video Performance Improvements
• Tech-Pro Features

Apple just released an update for iTunes. The release notes indicate that iTunes 7.7.1 “includes fixes to improve stability and performance”.

You can download this iTunes update by opening Software Update (Apple menu > Software Update).

Have a wonderful — enjoyable — crashfree — Sysadmin Appreciation Friday.

The car has finally arrived.

The new WordPress App [attention: iTunes link] available for free from the Apple AppStore.

It allows you not to only manage an unlimited number of WordPress based blogs. It also allows the inclusion of pictures taken from the iPhone builtin camera or from your photoroll.

You can specify title, tags, publish state, category and the body of a new blog entry and preview once you are done.

You can also edit all your existing entries.

Unfortunately it does not make use of a landscape mode keyboard. And once you’ve added a photo it will present you with a mess of HTML tags in the editor.

The iPhone included spellchecker will drive you crazy if you try to write posts in a different language than the one set in your phone :-|

Edit: Meanwhile wordpress.org published their own releasenotes about this application.

I’m just trying out that neat WordPress App that just became available in the Apple AppStore. I wonder if I can include photos.

Today the iPhone Dev team announced version 2.0.1 of their Pwnage Tool that allows users to activate and jailbreak iPhone devices (and unlocks 1st gen. devices).

This is a bugfix release that addresses some issues that users discovered.

It auto-finds the bl39 and bl46 files better, if they’re on your computer

It creates the ~/Library/iTunes/Device Support/ folder if not present, which should help with some 1600 errors people have been having.

Many people have reported the PwnageTool not starting up at all (the icon never stops bouncing). This issue should be resolved now.

The Sparkle AppCast URL is fixed in this version, so automatic updates should work for future releases.

Because of the last of the issues mentioned above it is highly recommended for all users to grab the new release in order to stay up-to-date with the builtin auto update mechanism.

There are several mirror sites available to provide the download. So go and grab yours now.

After some long months waiting my new car has finally arrived (at least at my retailer).

I will receive it on 2008-07-22.