It is Friday, 11th July 2008 in Singapore (GMT+8). The iPhone 3G has been released in New Zealand as well as Australia and more countries are coming up next due to different time zone.

While in Singapore, there are rumors that the iPhone 3G will be released later instead of in September 2008. I highly doubt this rumor is true. If you read the whole thread, there is also another rumor saying that iPhone 3G will be released on 11th August 2008, exactly 1 month after the iPhone 3G is released in the US.

There is now an iTunes store in Singapore but there are only apps for you to purchase, no music or videos are seen in the store. You can choose Singapore under “My Country” which is located right at the bottom of the iTunes Store page. I have just created my iTunes Singapore account, you need a credit card and a Singapore address.

Now I am waiting for the iPod Touch Firmware 2.0 which I have to pay USD$9.90 for it. Apple seriously always screws early adopters and a perfect example of it is those iPod Touch users who paid USD$19.90 for the January 2008 App Pack and now they will have to pay USD$9.90 for the 2.0 firmware. And to make matter worst, the January 2008 App Pack is included in the firmware 2.0.

Straight off from the WordPress.org:

An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes.

The problems addressed are unannounced XSS issues privately discovered and reported to the WordPress team. Thanks to Mark Jaquith, Robert Deaton, and David House for assisting with this release.

Just a quick note: this is different than the snake-oil reports that went out on some security lists a few days ago. There were a couple, but they were either not actual security problems, too small to warrant a release, or just patently false. Remember: just because you read it on a mailing list doesn€„¢t mean that it€„¢s true. We€„¢d be the first people to panic if there was an actual problem.

As always, when something serious crosses our desks we jump on it and get a well-tested release out as soon as possible.

WordPress 2.01 was release 2 days ago. They had fixed about 114 bugs.

Some of the fixes/improvements:
» You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
» Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
» Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
» XML-RPC uploading works.
» Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
» Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
» Imports now use much less memory.
» Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.

WordPress 2.0 is finally announced on WordPress official site. More information about the change in WordPress 2.0.

In the mean time, I have updated ALL my 8 plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.0.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-Stats 2.00 – download – demo
Display your WordPress statistics.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-Wap 2.00 – download – demo
Browse your WordPress weblog entries on a Wap enabled mobile phone.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-Polls 2.03 – download – demo
Adds an integrated poll system to your WordPress.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-PageNavi 2.00 – download – demo
Adds a page navigation with paging elements to your WordPress.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-Print 2.01 – download – demo
Displays a printable version of your WordPress weblog post.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-EMail 2.01 – download – demo
Enable you to send your webblog entry to a friend.

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-UserOnline 2.00 – download – demo
Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots).

WordPress 2.0 Plugin: WP-DBManager 2.00 – download
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database and run selected queries.

The demo above is still based on WordPress 1.5.2 as this site is not yet updated. For the actual demo of my plugins on WordPress 2.0, please visit GaMerZ.WordPress.

If you are using WordPress 1.5.2 and need my plugins, check below.

WordPress 1.5.2 Version Of My Plugins
» WP-Stats for WP 1.5.2
» WP-Wap for WP 1.5.2
» WP-Polls for WP 1.5.2
» WP-PageNavi for WP 1.5.2
» WP-Print for WP 1.5.2
» WP-EMail for WP 1.5.2
» WP-UserOnline for WP 1.5.2
» WP-DBManager for WP 1.5.2

Once again, thank you guys for all the support that you have given me.

Here is a list of changes I made to my site.

» Upgraded Blogging Software (b2 0.6.1 To WordPress 1.0.1)
» Tableless Layout Design
» 99.9% Of All The Pages Are HTML 4.01 Transitional
» Temporary Removed Polls And ShoutBox
» site.php No Longer Used To Display Pages Beside SiteMap
» Cleaner URL With Proper Folder And File Naming Convention
» Site Uses File Include Instead Of Function Call For Displaying HTML
» Links Are Now Managed By WordPress
» Links And Blog Links Are All Cache File Included In The Page, Thus No SQL Query Is Used
» Added In PortFolio Section
» Image Gallery And Image Viewer ReCoded To Version 2.0
» The Codes/Method Used Are More Efficient, Thus Less Strain On The Server
» Overall, The Site Loading Time Should Be Reduced

Here is a list of stuffs I need to do:

» Code ShoutBox From Scratch As An Add-On To WordPress
» Modify Polls As An Add-On To WordPress
» Modify User’s Online As An Add-On to WordPress
» Add In Advanced Search Feature To WordPress
» Add In Archive Feature To WordPress
» Add In Calendar Feature To WordPress
» Add In Blog Stats Feature To WordPress
» Add In Last Visit Feature To WordPress
» Finished Up The PortFolio Section
» Update Winamp Playlist, Desktop Screenshot And Links

Thats about it.