I have already highlighted in the past this project. Now I’m delighted to report that version 1.7 is out, and… it’s a great one!!!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of PicLens Version 1.7 with three exciting additions:

• Shop Amazon– The 3D Wall transformed image search. Now PicLens launches online shopping into the 21st century. Browse and buy seamlessly just like window shopping!
• Discover– MSNBC, ESPN, movie trailers…Get the latest news, photos, and video feeds.
• Return to PicLens– An essential for playing with pictures: toggle in and out of your desktop, the browser, and PicLens!

Find out more at http://blog.cooliris.com and download your own free latest release at http://www.piclens.com.

My favourite feature? Discover!
As soon as I installed the addon in Firefox (very notable: it’s already compatible with the brand new version 3 of my favourite browser), I spent something like 40 minutes just browsing the “movies/tv” section, full of very updated and interesting content… and presented in the most “sexy” way I have ever seen.

Again, a great piece of Software. Strongly recommended to give it a go!

PS Just to avoid to forget, Piclens works practically ANY browser .

I received this letter from Apple this morning:

Log in to the iPhone Dev Center and download the third beta version of the iPhone SDK.

Make sure to take advantage of all the development resources available to you in the iPhone Dev Center, including updated documentation such as the iPhone OS Programming Guide, a new tutorial for creating iPhone applications using Interface Builder, and the latest release notes.

I did so (later on) and I followed the full tutorial.
Finally!!!
Now I can use properly Interface Builder for my needs: programming using UIKit is quite difficult on the View side. Instead, using Interface Builder is quite easy to just follow the well known MVC Design Pattern.

Just a little thing to take care: in the sections “The sayHello: Method” and “The String” the tutorial suggest the usage of this “string” object as it is part of the “MyViewController” class. Get rid of it. It’s useless and if you try to compile the code with it, it will give you an “undefined reference” error.
How? If you can’t do that on your own, why are you still reading me?

Andrew Tanenbaum recently released the 3rd edition of Modern Operating Systems, and there is a brand new chapter about Symbian OS.

Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum - Sexy, isn’t it?

I think that this is a reflection of the importance that Symbian OS has at present. This also means that more people will probably learn about Symbian OS as part of their university courses.
Thanks for the interest Andy.

I’ll buy it (or borrow from our library) very soon .