We all waited for a long time for the new version 3.0 of the iPhone OS. iPhone users can upgrade to the new version for free. iPod touch users need to pay $9.95 for the upgrade to use all the new features.

Upgrading for iPhone users is quite easy:

• Connect your iPhone to your computer and select the iPhone within iTunes
• Click on the update button within the “summary” tab
• … and the adventure begins

230 MB … let’s see how the final version feels in real life

The development team of popular open-source blog-software Wordpress just released the security update 2.6.2. It is highly recommended to install the update to eliminate some security issues within the Wordpress installation – especially for blogs with open registration.

The update fixes a security issue caused by the weak implementation of the php function mt_rand() in many popular php-distributions. The function is used for seeding the random number generator. It also addresses the security risk of MySQL and SQL column truncation vulnerabilities. Stefan Esser reported both security-issues which are probably relevant to a lot of other php-based open-source projects. Thanks, Stefan!

Beside the fix of security issues, the Wordpress version 2.6.2 also implements some minor bugfixes. Therefor the upgrade to the newest version of WP is highly recommendet to everybody using Wordpress.