Mozilla Corporation spun out a third release candidate for Firefox 3.5 yesterday. The latest near-ready version of the open source browser contains minor fixes and tweaks to the new features loaded into Firefox 3.5.

Yes, this is a new blog theme! I was really happy with the old one, but it had started to feel a little dated, and as it was written around the time of Wordpress 2.1 it was creaking somewhat with the 2.8 and I decided that rather than getting it tweaked I would go with a new theme.

Microsoft tried to appease disgruntled customers on Thursday with news lower Windows 7 upgrade prices as well as a concession that lets owners of the now 8-year-old Windows XP move up to the new operating system at a lower price.

The company settled the uneasy question of how it would price its next-generation OS on Thursday by detailing the costs for the three Windows 7 editions customers are likely to see in stores.

Some time back there was an ad for software that would erase hard disks with the method approved by the U.S. government by writing 0s and 1s on the drive in several manners. Does such a software still exist, what is the name of the vendor, and is it for the Macintosh (PowerPC and Intel)?

And so it continues. Geohot has returned with some help from hacking buddies chronic, posixninja, and pod2g with news that the same “24kpwn” exploit used to cracked open the iPod touch 2G will work on the iPhone 3GS.

You win a prestigious prize like the Apple Design Award and you might be tempted to rest on your laurels. Not Cultured Code, though. Fresh from snagging an ADA for the Mac version of its task-management app Things, the company has rolled out an update for the Things iPhone app.

Facebook has started to test a new version of its Publisher, the tool that members can use to post notes, status updates, links, photos, videos and other content on their profile “wall” and share them with their friends.

They have been good at Smack talk here at the 12seconds world headquarters (the 12oplex). But, there’s some serious professional smack talk going on in the NFL right now. At 12seconds, we back up our 12ers no matter what. ShawneMerriman of the San Diego Chargers responded to a bunch of Chad Johnson’s tweets about him with a 12. This 12 is getting a lot of airplay right now on ESPN. Witness the intensity and give him a word of support.

Zevrix Solutions today released BatchOutput Server 4.2, an update to its output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. The software automates printing and exporting to PDF and PostScript by processing InDesign files from watched hotfolders. BatchOutput Server automates, simplifies, and streamlines output workflows of publishing houses, printers, prepress service providers and ad agencies. The new version allows users to keep entire job folders after output for further processing.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced iPhone-app versions of three classic HP calculators: the HP 12c, HP 12c Platinum, and HP 15C.

Missing Sync for iPhone 2.0 by Mark/Space was released a couple of months ago and added two-way wireless synching between the iPhone and your Mac or Windows based computer. The Mac client of the application allows you to synchronize notes, documents, and tasks and archive text messages and call history from your iPhone onto your Mac (and vice-versa wherever it applies).

If you’re among the many who’ve been searching Twitter for digital howls of revolution over the disputed Iranian presidential election, you may have turned up ads for UK furniture retailer Habitat.