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The announcement just came at WWDC that the iPhone 3.0 software will be released on June 17, 2009. It will be free to all iPhone users, and iPod Touch users will be able to download the 3.0 software for $9.95. The iPhone 3.0 software will include more than 1,000 new API’s for developers to use.

The iPhone 3GS (the “S” stands for SPEED) was also anounced at WWDC today. The new 3GS will have a 3 megapixel autofocus camera, as well as a VIDEO camera (30fps VGA video camera with sound). The camera will be able to be used by developers in their own apps. You will be able to send your videos via eMail and MMS, or also to YouTube. AT&T will support MMS and iPhone Tethering later this summer. The 3GS also has a Voice Control interface to allow you to control your phone by voice. The iPhone 3GS also has a Genius Play List in which you can tell the phone to “Play more songs like this” and iTunes will play similar songs. The 3GS has support for Nike+ and hardware encryption. The battery will last for up to 9 hours of internet wifi, 10 hours of watching video, 30 hours of audio, 12 hours of 2G talk. Price for the iPhone 3GS starts at $199 for a 16GB iPhone (black or white) and $299 for a 32GB iPhone (black or white). The iPhone 3g will stay on the market at $99. The iPhone 3G is available starting today at $99. The iPhone 3GS will come out on June 19th.

Now that you have Ubuntu 9.04 installed, we are going to add all the basic programs, codecs, and customizations that you may need on Ubuntu.

Services

Your new install probably has some services running that you don’t need. Let’s remove those to free up some system resources. To do this select System > Administration > Services. Unlock the services tab by entering your password. Then remove the services you do not need.

We are going to go over how to install Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope onto your computer.

1. Creating bootable media

Download the software and create in installation disk. You can download Ubuntu 9.04 from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download After downloading Ubuntu, create an install CD.

Wanting to know when the new iPhone 3.0 software will come out? I just got off the phone with an Apple iPhone support representative trying to troubleshoot a problem that I was having with restoring my iPhone. The support rep told me to expect the iPhone 3.0 software to come out within the next week. This would put the software release right in line with the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) which is June 8-12. I don’t know if it is true or not, but I had this conversation about 10 minutes ago.

Ubuntu has reciently announced the release schedule for the new version of Ubuntu (9.10) due in October of 2009. The schedule is as follows:

May 14, 2009 » Alpha 1 Release
June 11, 2009 » Alpha 2 Release
July 23, 2009 » Alpha 3 Release
August 13, 2009 » Alpha 4 Release
September 3, 2009 » Alpha 5 Release
September 17, 2009 » Alpha 6 Release
October 1, 2009 » Beta Release
October 22, 2009 » Release Candidate
October 29, 2009 » Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Final Release

After using Lighttpd for a couple of months, I wasn’t really happy with it, so I have decided to move from Lighttpd to Nginx, which is another open-source lightweight web server. In this tutorial, I am going to go over setting up Nginx, MySQL, and PHP5 on an Ubuntu server.

1. Install Nginx

For some reason Nginx does not start automatically when it is installed, so we need to start Nginx.

Now we want to make sure that Nginx installed properly. Open your web browser and point it to your servers IP address. If all is working fine you should see a page that says “Welcome to nginx!”