Hi… I’m posting this from an iPhone =). (No, not mine unfortunately… me is poor *sniff*. Someone is just letting me borrow theirs for a bit.)

It’s pretty cool; still getting the hang of this keyboard, but it’s pretty easy to type fairly fast (even with bringing up the symbols panel and everything). It’s got very good predictive typing abilities, but it’s keyboard does need to be just a squeak bigger to make everything a bit more accurate (though I must say I’m pleased with how messy you can type and still get the letter you want. Definitely not something I want to be typing a 2,000 word paper on, but that’s not what it’s for, is it? =P

Now that I’ve tried one of these I want one even more (which is a good sign… means it didn’t disappoint me =P ).

One feature I’m wanting, that I haven’t found yet, is the ability to select text by dragging with your finger (or something that gives the same result) like you can with your mouse; anyone know how to do that on an iPhone?

(Hmmm… Just in the amount of time it’s taken me to write this blog entry I’ve gotten pretty fast at this keyboard, I might have to strike my previous comment about the keyboard needing to be bigger.)

Mozilla has released Firefox 3, which has a lot of awesome new features and tons of bug fixes. Download it, use it, love it.

Download Firefox 3

Read about the new features in Firefox 3

Mozilla is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, you can see a map of their progress so far at the spreadfirefox.com world record map page (you can even get a certificate with your name on it for participating, if that kind of thing interests you).

America is in the lead with well over 2 million downloads, Germany comes in second with almost half a million (huzzah for Germany!!!). Altogether there is a total of over 7 million downloads across the entire globe, but it’s not over yet…… hurry on over and add another download to the count!

Downloads began yesterday, but so many people were trying to download that the Mozilla servers just couldn’t handle it and they were down for a good while; fortunately they’re back up now and cranking the downloads through at almost 9,000 downloads a minute.

The Mozilla Blog has a message from Paul Kim, Mozilla’s VP of marketing, concerning the slowdown:

Our systems were quite busy earlier this morning so individual requests may not have gotten through - but they are all up now and serving a tremendous amount of traffic and downloads. We are currently serving almost 9,000 downloads a minute, which puts us on track to achieve 5-7 million downloads our first day of general availability.

Apple has posted yet another of their Get A Mac ads. This one has PC calling PC World on the phone to report a “misprint” in their publication… LOL.

Head on over to http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ and check it out.

Apple has released three more Get A Mac ads.

“Podium” is the best one, “PR Lady” is pretty good, and “Boxer” is so-so.

Check them out for yourself here: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/.

Apple has updated their MacBook lines; nothing revolutionary, but upgrades are always welcome.

The mid and high range MacBooks now come with the 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (upgraded from 2.16GHz).

The processors of the new MacBook’s chips have been moved from the Calistoga chipset architecture to the Santa Rosa architecture.

The frontside bus is now 800MHz (up from 667MHz).

The graphics card was upgraded to the Intel GMA X3100 with 144MB (up from the Intel GMA 950 with 64MB).

And you can now smash 4GB RAM into the MacBook, which is double what it used to max out at.

The MacBook Pro also has a build-to-order option for a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor and a larger hard drive.

Today Apple released Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” the latest and greatest operating system for the Mac.

Be sure to check out all the awesome new features.

Nando Design Studio has released version two of their iMac Generations icon set (available for both Windows and Mac). You can download them here.

Panic has released version 1.0.4 of Coda, one of my favorite applications.

Here’s the release information:

Coda 1.0.4 fixes a number of issues and quirks, while offering improved text encoding detection, easier JavaScript debugging, lots of editor improvements, and more. For full details, view the complete release notes.

Don’t forget: Coda’s special introductory pricing won’t last forever. Buy Coda today, secure and easy, and we both win!

This update is free for all Coda users, and is 17 MB in size.

To go with my previous post on Unity 2.0’s release, here are a few examples of the quality it produces.

Download the new, free, web player from here, then play the Tropical Paradise web sample.

Also, be sure to download the standalone game sample Avert Fate, which has extremely impressive graphics and effects (that lighting is awesome).

This is really cool, OTEE has released the latest version of their advanced game making software, Unity 2.0.

Unity streamlines the production of high quality games which can be exported for Mac, Windows, or the web (and, apparently, for the Wii also). I haven’t learned how to use it myself yet, but the demos of it being used have really impressed me. I especially like it’s ability to play a game in the production environment, and even pause, step-forward, step-backward, and allow you to change parameters and scripts on the fly… all very impressive, and that’s just the beginning of a long list of awesome features.

Read all about the new version here.

Over at Cyclonite Studios we’re considering getting into game making, so this is very interesting news; but if we do, it will be a while before anything is released (got other things on our plate before we go learning something like this).

If you’re interested in producing games with Unity, be sure to check out the documentation and other support areas.