Wordpress has released an app for the iPhone/iPod touch that allows you to post blog entries while on the go.

If you use Wordpress, head on over to the Appstore and pick It up and blog away.

Now that you’ve spent all your money on a nice new Mac, iPhone, Apple TV etc., your budget is starting to get very tight. But you still want to run Windows without Bootcamp, or check out that ubuntu thing that your geek friends talk about without spending any more cash. Well, fortunately you’re still in luck with VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a free virtual machine from sun microsystems. While it may not have all the bells and whistles that Parallels or VMWare Fusion offer, its price tag makes VirtualBox an attractive alternative. In fact, VirtualBox can install certain operating systems that Parallels currently does not support (such as the latest version of Ubuntu Linux). If you want to check out VirtualBox keep in mind the following:

• Memory - You’re going to need at least 512MB of ram for the guest OS. That means you will need at least 1GB of ram for your Mac, preferably more, in order to run comfortably. Otherwise, running a virtual machine will be an exercise in slowwwww.
• Intel Mac - You’re gonna need one to run VirtualBox
• Drive Space - If you have a MacBook Air with a 60Gb or 80Gb drive, keep in mind that a guest OS will take up Gigabytes of space. Running out can be painful.
• Patience - VirtualBox runs on many platforms but it is still in Beta for the Mac. Things may not work out the first or second time. Most virtual machines will add additional modules to the Operating System (called kernel modules). Kernel modules can bring the whole system down. But with a little patience you can still have an enjoyable experience.

So if you want try a virtual machine on the cheap, VirtualBox is for you.

iPhoto is a great application for managing your digital photos. The update to the latest version of iPhoto including Events has only made the application more enticing to potential Mac users. The ability to quickly add and share photos with other applications and other users has been a strong point of iPhoto.

But if you don’t have your own .Mac account or iWeb site sharing your photo’s from iPhoto to friends and family may require a bit of outside assistance. One option to quickly share photo albums with others is through using Google’s free Picasa Web Albums.

Picasa Web Albums is available to anyone with a Google Account. Once your account has been setup, you can upload your photos and share the album urls with others.

To make this process a bit easier, Google has provided a plugin to iPhoto to make exporting photo albums that much easier. After downloading and installing Picasa Web Albums Uploader for your Mac open iPhoto, select the photos or album you’d like to share and then click File, followed by Export.

Once the export window has opened, click the Picasa Web tab. From here you can name the Album you’re uploading, write a brief description, and decide if the album is one you’d like to share with the public or keep private to just those you select to share with.

After defining the options for you soon to be shared album, click export and enter your Google Account credentials. The photos will then be uploaded to your free Google Picasa Web Album site and allow others to view and download the pictures you’ve shared.

Picasa Web Albums + iPhoto is a great way to share photos with friends and family. Additionally, Picasa Web Albums look great on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

We’ve mentioned previously that Adobe Air allows you to bring some of the great functionality of Web 2.0 to your desktop. Now, Google has released Google Reader on Adobe Air and is calling it ReadAir.

The goal of the application is to allow you all of the great features you enjoy in the Google Reader in your web browser while still on the desktop and even offer access to your important RSS feeds while you’re off line.

ReadAir is currently an OS X Themed application and feels in many ways like a normal app and not one running on Adobe Air. Although the application is still at version .1 I wanted to see how things worked.

Performance

Speed and performance is always important for applications connected to the internet. I was surprised by how well ReadAir connected me to my Google Reader account and pulled down all of my feeds and information. Clicking from one article to the next populated instantly and at times had faster results than what I am use to on the web. I assume this is related to the application pulling all the feeds at once and not waiting for me to load them individually into my browser.

Still a bit buggy

Despite the fast performance ReadAir is not without its bugs. For some reason assigning a tag to a feed doesn’t work correctly and always assigns the feed the first tag/folder on my subscription list. I tried this a number of times and could not get it to work correctly, but as I mentioned this is still an early .1 release so bugs are expected.

Features still under development

While ReadAir connects you to your Google Reader feeds it still lacks some of the features you’ve grown to love with the browser based RSS Reader.

The ReadAir site lists these features as still being in development:

1. Continuation (Allow users to view more than 20 items per feed)
2. Offline mode
3. Keyboard shortcuts
4. Windows XP/Vista and custom themes
5. Unread count in Mac doc icon

But, despite its shortfalls the initial release of ReadAir shows a lot of promise and may already work well enough for your daily RSS reading needs.

If you’re not using Google Reader, what RSS Feed Reader do you currently use? Let us know in the comments, and what makes it great!

- tip from lifehacker

OpenOffice.org, a Sun Microsystems supported project, has been a free competitor to Microsoft Office for a number of years, but their support for OS X based systems lacked the integration with the Aqua user interface.

In fact, the current stable version (OpenOffice.org v2.4) requires X11 to display the office suite in OS X.

Fortunately, OpenOffice.org has announced the beta version of OpenOffice 3.0 that includes Aqua support for Mac OS X Intel computer owners.

While not the most important feature of an office suite, native interface will make for a more enjoyable user experience. Additionally, OpenOffice.org may gain support from Mac users now that the organization has contributed some attention to the Apple OS.

Head over to the 3.0 beta page if you’d like to download the latest version of OpenOffice.org v3.0 beta for the Mac with Intel Aqua capabilities.

As version 3.0 gets closer to a stable release it may be a solid option for Mac users when considering Microsoft Office or iWork.