LiveJournal.app has been upgraded to version 0.3.1. This upgrade is mostly about fixing previous version’s bugs rather than installing new features, but there are some of those as well.

What’s new:

• you can choose a userpic for each entry and choose your default userpic;
• now you can add new tags in the “edit entry” menu;
• the program now remembers your Location(s), so you’ll be able to choose one of the earlier specified locations when editing your entry (this locations menu will become available as soon as your save at least one location);
• progress bar for image upload now reflects the real upload progress;
• the option of choosing images is now available for versions below 1.1.3 (this hasn’t been tested);
• a menu with options to open the journal or the published entry opens up after successful publication.

What’s old:

• bug fix for ScrapBook authentication, which did not recognize usernames with _ (underscore);
• bug fix for application’s shutdown during posting with no internet connection;
• within the limits of one session the application does not upload the same pictures once more if they were specified for upload twice or if the connection was broken in the process of the posting;
• bug fix for mistakes found in the process of working with the tag selection table;
• bug fix for sometimes incorrect behavior of the Post button;
• several other insignificant bugs were fixed.

Special thanks go out to dorofej, qik, diesel_ks, ruben и padla_cableguy for their help in testing this application. It became much more stable with their help.
Also thanks to q_marik for her help in translating all of this into English.

Please, if you are reposting this text, give a link to the community (http://community.livejournal.com/cosysoftware_en/), or this post, so that the users can receive support or ask us questions. Thank you.

Repository: http://i.cosysoftware.ru

Previous version: http://igrick.livejournal.com/294280.html.

Russian version is also available at cosysoftware.

LiveJournal iPhone Client updated to 0.3.0.

• new splash screen
• menu added (double tap in the text area)
• editor
  1. paste pix from library
  2. paste LJ-user
  3. LJ-cut
  4. bold
  5. italic
  6. strikethrough
• pix store LiveJournal ScrapBook, not accessible to Basic account
• ability to set pix width
• new tab “Storage” in settings, drawing information about ScrapBook storage

To download it you should add repository http://i.cosysoftware.ru to Installer App

[via Igrick LiveJournal]

This is a list of web apps IM

Meebo (http://www.meebo.com): Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, AIM, ICQ
Trillian Astra (http://www.astra.im/iphone/): Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, AIM, ICQ
JiveTalk (http://iphone.beejive.com): Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, AIM, ICQ
Mundu IM (http://iphone.mundu.com): Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, AIM
eBuddy (http://www.ebuddy.com): Yahoo!, MSN, AIM
Heysan (http://m.heysan.com): MSN, AIM, ICQ
Tinybuddy IM (http://tybyim.com/): AIM
FlickIM (http://www.flickim.com): AIM
iPhoneChat (http://davidcann.com/im/): AIM
IM+ for Skype (http://www.skypeforiphone.com): Skype
CommunicationTube (http://communicationtube.com/): ICQ, MSN, IRC, GTalk

One of the big announcements to come out of WWDC 08′ was the introduction of Apple’s new MobileMe Internet service. MobileMe features push email, push contacts and push calendars from your “cloud” to native apps on your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac or PC. MobileMe will be available shortly and will replace Apple’s .mac service.

The MobileMe service will deliver a desktop-like experience on the web. Changes made on your MobileMe cloud will automatically update native applications on all of computers and or devices. “Think of MobileMe as ‘Exchange for the rest of us,’” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Now users who are not part of an enterprise that runs Exchange can get the same push email, push calendars and push contacts that the big guys get.”

The MobileMe web applications are 100% ad free and includes 20GB of online storage. The service will be available on July 11th priced at $99 for individuals and $149 for a family pack (includes one master account with 20GB of storage and four 5GB family member accounts.

Apple has posted a video tour describing the new features of MobileMe.

With the iPhone 2.0 Software Update, your iPhone will do even more. Extend its capabilities with innovative applications you download directly from the new App Store. Get push email, calendar, and contacts from your Microsoft Exchange server at work. And use great new features in Mail, Contacts, and other applications. Free in the next update.

iPhone firmware 2.0 was detailed in WWDC with some rumored features finally seeing the day of light. Features include:

• iWork and Office document viewing
• Save images from E-Mail directly to photo library
• Contact Search
• E-Mail/SMS Bulk Delete & Move
• Scientific Calculator when switched to Landscape Mode in Calculator
• Support for a TON of languages including Chinese, Japanese

On top of those features, Jobs detailed enterprise support for mass distribution of apps (up to 100 authorized iPhones) and also unveiled a new push notification system for apps that would use it (such as IM clients).

Firmware 2.0 will be available for iPhone users come ‘Early July’ for free and for iPod Touch users at a reduced fee (compared to the last update) of $9.95.

Pathfinder, a software development and user experience design firm, announced the initial release of rails_iui, an open source Rails Plug-In for the iPhone.

The plug-in makes it easier to build iPhone enabled web applications. Rail plugin adds the ability to iUI framework which contains a number of CSS styles and JavaScript event handlers, to make iPhone Web apps look and feel somewhat like native iPhone applications.

“While developing my latest mobile web application with iUI, I realized I was building up a library, so I converted everything to a Rails plug-in,” stated Rappin, creator of the plugin. “Open source is all about sharing what you have learned and making contributions to support the community.””

Currently the plug-in focuses on automating common tasks and streamlining development. Future enhancements include improvements in documentation, testing and leveraging the Rails framework to enhance interactions, especially related to history and back behavior.

To get more information and download the plugin go to here or here.

As the iPhone continues to march across the globe, Google’s special (and slick) interface that was introduced in mid-December has been limited to English speakers. However, yesterday the company rolled it out to 33 countries in 16 languages, including Chinese–despite the fact the handset is not available through any Chinese carriers.

More importantly, Google continues to create special mobile variations of its other pages, which now includes Google News and support for users of Google Apps. Google Apps users can now check their mail using the same interface regular Gmail users have been enjoying, with the added benefit of being signed in to use the other mobile Google services.

The updated news viewer allows users to browse by the front page or by section, and features a built-in search tool. It’s still essentially a link repository to other third-party sites, but it’s now far easier to parse through on smaller screens than its original format.

What really makes the updated News page shine is that it integrates YouTube videos in the related stories. If there are videos for a selected subject, you can view them as thumbnails, which when clicked will jump you to the handset’s built-in YouTube viewer. Short of actually having Flash, this is the closest you’ll get to being able to casually watch Web videos while browsing other news networks. You could also use a conversion tool like vTap or Avot mV, but this new system requires one less step.

I still think most iPhone users will be inclined to use Safari’s built in-search tool, which can be set to use either Google or Yahoo without having to venture to a search page first. With the speed of EDGE, I often find myself skipping any unnecessary page load when it comes time to search on the go, something that won’t be fixed until the purported 3G version of the handset comes out later this year.

Twinkle – the native iPhone Twitter client with Locate Me features – has been updated, to Version 0.75.  It’s very late here and I’ve only just updated – but the big additions are:

• *Clickable links*.  This had been one of or maybe the most requested feature, so it’s very nice to see it added to this update!
• Follow and Stop Following buttons added – another big wish list item checked off
• Embedded image URLs for non-Twinkle user – and another one

via Fring blogs

OK. So if you’re one of the first lucky *#@$%&s to get your hands on an iPhone, you just got even luckier. We’ve just made a special pre-release R&D version of fring for your iPhone – a mobile VoIP app publicly available for the iPhone?…yep that’s a world-first!

This special pre-release version of fring, developed in conjunction with the Holon Institute of Technology academic research labs is a direct response to iPhone users kicking our behind to get fring for their COOOOOL devices. Part of the objective here (besides getting you all excited with fring for iPhone) is to get feedback prior to release of the full-feature version and create a truly superb user experience for iPhone users. So feel free to let us know what you think (…and be as honest as you like – we can take it! )
More info on what you get and how to get it at the fringcubator (fring lab).
…it’s fringing iPhone freedom!

Fring is one of the first native VoIP clients for the iPhone, boasting integration with popular VoIP and IM networks like Skype, MSN Messenger, GTalk, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger.

To discover this amazing app u need to have a jailbroken iPhone. Add http://fring.com/iphone.xml as a source to Install app. Go to the install tab and find fring there, install and enjoy it.