Wow! That was fast. It’s barely two weeks ago that they released Wordpress 2.8.2 to fix XSS vulnerabilty. Today Wordpress 2.8.3 is released to fix some privilege escalation issue. Wordpress blog explained that they have overlooked the problem when fixing the 2.8.1 but luckily the worpress community discovered the issue. Time to update, folks!

The box

Back shell - imitates iPhone 3G

Front interface

Not long ago, there are wild rumors about Apple’s plan to produce iPhone Nano, a mini version of iPhone just like iPod Nano. But it turns out that it’s just a wild rumors and Apple itself denied the rumors because it will defeat the purpose of having a wide screen smart phone at a first place. However, at the other parts of the world, some people picked-up the idea and produce the mini version of iPhone and named it -well, a Mini iPhone! And that mini iPhone has crossed the ocean and made it’s way to our shore – Malaysia.

The mini iPhone pictured above is made in China and sold for RM460 ++ at Brem Mall, Kepong. The design is almost similar to iPhone 3G, but of course smaller to give it a mini size. Even though the home screen made to look like iphone, it’s OS is not. Unfortunately, I cannot manage to get the full specs of this phone. However, this mini iPhone is very attractive and it is a touch screen – just enough to cheat your friends that you just bought a rare Mini iPhone that cannot be found even at Apple Store worldwide.

The phone itself is only ready for collection starting from 31st July but you can make an online booking to become among the early owner of iPhone 3GS in Malaysia. Maxis asked for RM200 non-refundable online booking charge. However, the online booking page is real-damn-slow at the moment and some of the booking form functionality is not working. And after more than 1 hour trying, I finally got the error message below. So frustrated! I guess Maxis website is now handling traffics more than they can handle.

I’ll write more about Maxis iPhone 3GS later when I’m done with the booking. #%@*&~

update: Finally completed the booking process. Can’t wait to test the new iPhone!

Screen capture from Maxis website

If everything goes well as planned, tomorrow (July 15th) Maxis will announce some important news about the new iPhone 3GS. Malaysian iPhone owners have to wait until tomorrow to know the new device’s price info, subsidize amount, iPhone 3G upgrade program and  whether Maxis will cut the price of the current iPhone 3G. But before they go any further with the new iPhone promotion, they have to get the name right first! The correct name of this new iPhone should be spelled iPhone 3GS, not iPhone 3G S. Notice the different? There should be no space after 3G character. The first picture above shows screen capture from iPhone 3GS page in Maxis iPhone 3G website. The wrong spelling can be seen throughout Maxis website. It’s even in their iPhone 3GS registration notification . As a comparison, the screen capture below was taken from Apple’s official website.

Yes, what’s in a name, indeed. But it’s better to get things right before you’ve gone too far when you decided to change it later. In fact, Apple itself initially used iPhone 3G S to mention the new iphone when it was first launched to the public [read the story here]. But later they changed it to iPhone 3GS. Maxis should follow suit. Anyway, I think they have to maintain the spelling consistency with the iPhone manufacturer itself – Apple.

Now can somebody tell Maxis about this?

Yesterday – 10th of July, should be the day the new Malaysian shopping portal goes live as suggested by the message captured in it’s website www.mybeli.com above. However, there’s no sign of real content until today. A quick check just now (2:16am, yes..i burnt the midnight oil) found the message has been replaced by Apache Tomcat web server settings information.

I was eager to see the portal since In.Tech reported about it last week. This new shopping portal is a project by PIKOM and they’ve said that this portal launch is timely during the Malaysia Megasale Campaign from 4th July – 31st August. PIKOM website had even put a banner of this portal in their website. Why bother putting a link when it’s not ready? It seems that we have to wait a little longer. Hopefully it will be ready before the Malaysia Megasale Campaign ends.

update: I have just received a reply from PIKOM reps today (July 13th). It seems that the portal will only be ready for consumers on July 31st. Thanks PIKOM for the response. Read an excerpt of the email below:

Hi. Sorry about that. It took about 48 hours for the domain to be fully
available. You can try it now. If you are a merchant, please try
registering.

As a consumer, the site will be officially launched on july 31.

Smashing Magazine yesterday announced the winners of it’s Typographic X-HTML/CSS Layout contest held way back in May this year. And to my surprise, the runner-up winner (2nd place) is our local participant. His name is Mohd Huzairy Mohd Rezuan, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He submitted his work titled ‘Extreme Georgia’ with a very minimalist theme. The winner of this contest is a designer from Germany and 3rd place won by an Argentinian.

Smashing Magazine, over the years, has established itself as one of the reputable source of reference for designers all over the world. Their approach of giving out free, high quality design resources on a regular basis has make it the most sought-after website in recent years. So to win a contest organized by this website, even at 2nd place, and beating hundreds of other designers all over the world should be applauded and recognized. Congrats to Mohd Huzairy! I always feel that we must support and encourage our very own local people who excels in the web industry.

So who is this Mohd Huzairy, anyway? See his bio taken from InfoMalaya.com:

So much for a trainee teacher to won international design contest, huh? sigh! Looking forward for his future works.

Download or preview his contest-winning ‘Extreme Georgia’ now.

You’d better believe that this music video was shot entirely using iPhone 3Gs. That shows how superb the quality of the new video features in the iphone. [full story]

The problem:
It seems that any applications from the packages list cannot be installed. Most of the applications only managed to download the installation files but will stop halfway during the installation with the following dkpg error messages:

Couldn’t configure pre-depend dpkg for ncurses, probably a dependency cycle

Some of them managed to finish the installation but the application is not shown at all in the springboard. I cant’ even perform the essential updates from Cydia.

The cause:
After some googling, I’ve found that the culprit of the problem is IcyInstaller that I selected together with Cydia during the 3.0 jailbreaks & unlocks with redsn0w. Somehow Icy is not really compatible with the new firmware 3.0. The problem actually started immediately after I tapped on Icy to open it. So basically, as long as I don’t touch on Icy icon, I won’t have this problem. If your Cydia is doing OK after the upgrade, you can choose not to tap on it. But you may accidentally touch the Icy icon on the springboard so settling for a permanent fix is a likely solution for me.

The solution:
The solution turns out to be very simple. What I’ve done is re-jailbreak using redsn0w 0.7.2 but this time, not selecting to install Icy. And I don’t even have to unlock it again, jailbreak alone will do. But strangely, even after the re-jailbreak process, the Icy application is still there in the springboard. Not to worry, because now Cydia is working so I can install CyDelete to remove it.

The solution seems working fine for me, at least. But if you have encountered any other simpler solutions, or similar problems, please leave a comment below.

new thumbnails menu

The images above show the latest Facebook app for iphone that will be released very soon. The facebook developer itself has sent these screenshots to TechCrunch yesterday. There will be major revamps of the older version and lots of web-version features will be included. You can read the whole story here