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June 24, 2008

Take Control of Your iPhone 2.0. With iPhone 2.0 software and the iPhone 3G hardware due to be released on July 11, it's obviously time for me to update my iPhone book. Exact details have yet to be decided. Expect a formal announcement soon.

By the way, in April, version 1.1 of Take Control or Your iPhone was released. This version updated the book to include all the changes through iPhone software 1.1.4, including expanded and updated information about how to jailbreak an iPhone.

Latest columns and blogs. Whew! I am now writing a minimum of 10 columns a month. First there are my two monthly columns: mac.column.ted for MacFixIt and User Friendly View for The Mac Observer. In addition, I write a weekly Bugs & Fixes blog for Macworld (part of Mac 911) as well as a weekly User Friendly Blog for The Mac Observer. At this rate, it is no longer possible for me to list here every blog entry I write. You'll have to check the blog sites themselves. For additional related information, check out the MacFixIt, Macworld, and Mac Observer pages here.

Plus, I still write occasional entries for Slanted Viewpoint, my blog for personal views on mostly non-tech topics.

TidBITs article. I occasionally write articles about the iPhone for TidBITS. The most recent one is Get More From the iPhone's Text Widget, posted in April.

MacFixIt sold again. Last September, TechTracker (the parent company of MacFixIt) was purchased by CNET. Last month, CNET, in turn, was purchased by CBS. So now, MacFixIt is owned by CBS!

April 7, 2008

Bugs & Fixes goes weekly online. I have been doing a monthly column for the print edition of Macworld, called Bugs & Fixes. It appears as a sidebar to the Mac 911 section. Items from this column were (ir)regularly culled to be posted online at macworld.com. Macworld has decided to reverse this sequence (an idea I endorse, as it will make online postings much more timely).

Bugs & Fixes is now a weekly feature (every Friday) of the Mac 911 blog at macworld.com. At the end of each month, the weekly entries will be gathered together to form the print column.

You can read the first of these weekly entries here.