ROUNDUP – iPhone MMS, Android Market, Opera 10, Snow Leopard, Wetoku
Here are some of the more interesting news and tips that we thought you might find it useful.
Interesting News
MMS Comes to iPhone 3G and 3GS
AT&T is finally bringing MMS (multimedia messaging) to the iPhones. Instead of late summer, they now announced that MMS will come to iPhones early fall, on September 25th.
First Video of the new Android Market
Android developers can now enjoy the AppStore equivalent, Android Marketplace. Using Android Marketplace developers can list their applications along with screenshots, promotional icons and, of course, the description of their app.
Ruby On Rails XSS Vulnerability discovered
Brian Masterbrook discovered a vulnerability on the uber-famous Ruby On Rails framework. The vulnerability impacted Twitter, Basecamp and the many applications written using Ruby On Rails.
Better GReader is now a Firefox recommended add-on
Better GReader 0.7.2 is so cool that the official Firefox add-ons site listed Better GReader 0.7.2 as one of the official recommended add-ons to Firefox. It has a nice “Preview Item” which helps you view the web page within the Google Reader window itself.
Yahoo Calendar can now sync with your iPhone
If you prefer Yahoo Calendar than the many zillions of online calendars then you might love to have the calendar sync to your iPhone. Yahoo Mail Blog lists the simple steps involved to make your iPhone sync with your Yahoo Calendar.
Official List of Snow Leopard Incompatible Software
With the cheap upgrade of Snow Leopard many have reported application incompatibilities with Snow Leopard. Now Apple has officially listed the applications that are incompatible with Snow Leopard.
Opera 10 is available for download
Opera 10’s Turbo Mode made news when it was released with the beta version but now Opera Software ASA has made Opera 10 final version available for download.
Those Glossy Chat Bubbles are Apple Trademarks
It looks like Apple has trademarked those glossy glass bubbles that you see on many of Apple’s chat products both on Mac and iPhone. So, developers who use other platforms to mimic the usability of those glossy bubbles beware.
Evernote iPhone app gets an update
One of the most useful iPhone apps, Evernote, gets updated to version 3.0.1. The latest update include a sleuth of performance improvements along with the ability to manually sync your notes, clip web pages within the built-in iPhone web browser and more.
Windows 7 RC downloads comes to an end
By August 20, 2009 Microsoft froze the download page where you were able to download Windows 7 RC. If you have the download from somewhere but missing the product key you can get a product key from the Microsoft Distribution website.
Google Docs adds Language Translation
If you use Google Docs and you want to convert your document to other languages than English you’d love this feature of translating your Google Documents into other languages with a click of a button.
Quick Tips
How to build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard?
If you can’t afford a Mac at this time but have a sparing Windows machine that you don’t mind tweaking then you can try to install Snow Leopard on Windows machine with this detailed step-by-step article that explains how to build a Mac using your Windows machines. Keep in mind that it’s not a simple tip but a lot more involved tutorial for the geeks.
4 best improvements of Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard has been mostly touted as an internal improvement release. That’s the reason the price was so low. Here are some of the 4 best improvements than Leopard that Snow Leopard brings in.
How to upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard?
It is known that upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard is a smooth experience. Wouldn’t it still be nice to see it in visual on how to upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
How to conduct video interviews with Wetoku?
Wetoku makes it really easy to conduct interviews online and share it with others. Once signed-up it gives you an URL to share with the interviewee and get started in a matter of minutes.
How to get Google Voice Notifications on Windows?
If you use Google Voice wouldn’t it be nice to see Google Voice notify you of voicemails and such on your Windows machines? Here is a hack to bring those notifications to Windows using Firefox and Growl.
How to make Gmail check your favorite POP accounts more frequently?
If you use Gmail to check your other POP3 email accounts you must have felt that it doesn’t check those accounts that frequently. That doesn’t mean you can’t force Gmail to check those POP3 accounts on more frequent intervals.


