It’s weekend and it’s good to have some fun. First episode of Rolando features a set of cute characters rolling around the map. It’s a great game that lets you tilt, touch and slide through the adventure. ngmoco has just released the new episode ROLANDO 2. It’s the quest for the Golden Orchid.

ROLANDO 2 costs US$9.99 and available now at the App Store. The new episode now supports push notifications. You can send game invites to friends and let them know immediately. ROLANDO 2 game characters looks more 3D than before. Controls are improved. It’s more easy to play and fun now.

It seems bluetooth in iPhone firmware 3.0 is more opened. You can now play games using bluetooth peer to peer network. You can also enable internet sharing of iPhone 3G connections by using the bluetooth connection with computer. Unfortunately, the real problem is: I can’t transfer images and files to other smartphones using bluetooth. Contacts cannot be shared easily, also. Not all the smartphones have data packages included.

The problem was partly solved in iPhone firmware 2.2.1. (Partly because I can’t send and receive contacts using bluetooth.) Users can jailbreak the iPhone and install iBluetooth from Cydia. I was searching information to see whether it works with the newest firmware 3.0. The official answer from the developer is “may be”. Compatibility is not guaranteed.

I am trying my luck today. Boom! It works for the latest version 1.0.8. I am able to send and receive files between different bluetooth devices now. It’s the real uses of bluetooth that should be there in iPhone firmware 3.0 by default. Developer said he is working on it and will support firmware 3.0 completely in the future. But it takes time since iBluetooth needs to rewrite to suit 3.0.

I am not sure whether the newest iPhone OS 3.1 SDK will allow bluetooth file transfers within the app itself.  (For instance, the hope to transfer files with bluetooth using AirSharing). But I really hope the dream comes true.

[via MeDevil]

Microsoft tried to advertise Internet Explorer with those strange and bad taste ads recently, but there are several complaints about the OMGIGP. That advertisement features a girl puke to his boyfriend (husband?). The reason is that he does not uses Internet Explorer 8, and the girl discovered those porn sites he has just watched. Since the whole video is pretty disgusting and the girl keeps vomiting until it ends, you will probably feel not so right after you watched it. It’s great to have original idea, but would that be too much? If you don’t afraid to see the ad, take a look after the break.

[via Guardian]

One of the winning factors of iPhone is the App Store. Palm Pre developers can now submit apps to the App Catalog. It’s not sure how long it takes for Palm to approve it, but it is pretty sure lots of apps will be there very soon. The number of apps may be exploded like the iPhone. Currently, Pre is lack of apps and thus the number of downloads in App Catalog is not that much. If Pre gets enough killer apps like iPhone, it would become the real iPhone killer.

[via PreThinking]

Besides battery and overheat problem, here is another serious problem of iPhone 3GS. Users discovered the iPhone 3GS oleophobic screen coating is gone quickly. It turns to be ugly like pictured above. Will iPhone 3GS seriously affected by the recent bad news? Apple has to do something to fix it. It seems it’s time to rethink whether you should buy the iPhone 3GS now.

[via Engadget]

Ars have done a very interesting experiment recently. They have deleted some photos from Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook. And see if they are still there after 6 weeks. Twitter and Flickr photos are really gone. But, photos are still there and accessible to public at Facebook and MySpace. (Since it is reported by Ars, it may be removed very soon by Facebook and MySpace).

The main reason why those photos are not permanently removed could probably because of the backup copies. If you have those crazy photos, don’t upload it in the first place. “deleted” photos are not really deleted.

[via Ars]

Wired wrote a false report about Japanese hate the iPhone in March, the truth is revealed by AppleInsider later on. There are lots of survey proved that Japanese love the iPhone. Here is another one: A new survey by market research company BCN revealed that iPhone 3G 8GB is the number 1 smartphone in Japan, followed by iPhone 3G 16GB is the number 2. NTT CoCoMo Aquos SH-04A is the number 3.

The smartphone sales goes by 80% in a year, and the non-smartphone sales is dropping. Survey said over 1 million iPhone 3G is sold in Japan. Will the new iPhone 3GS becomes another hit in Japan?

[via TG Daily]

Take a look of the first column at the Dell’s homepage at here. It comes with Microsoft Operating system that called as “Ubuntu”. So now Ubuntu becomes is one of the Microsoft OS?

[via Linuxologist]

Microsoft and Linux would not fight with each other on Twitter. After Linux started the tweet to welcome Microsoft to Twitter, Microsoft responded nicely. Can’t believe they act like old friends meeting each other. Note Microsoft has just started tweeting 3 days ago. I would also like to say, “Welcome to the hit social network, Microsoft!”

[via TechCrunch]

I was so happy to know that redsnow, the iPhone firmware 3.0 jailbreak tool, was released. I go to iPhone Dev Team site and quickly download it. It was redsnow 0.7, the very first version. I didn’t notice there is an updated version0.72. My iPhone 3G 3.0 experience the heat problem after jailbreaking. It turns pretty after using it for a long time. My friends told me it is a bug of redsnow 0.7.

I restore my iPhone 3G yesterday, and jailbreak with the newest redsnow 0.72. It seems the overheat problem is gone. iPhone becomes more stable now. If you have similar problem, try to restore the iPhone and use the latest redsnow 0.72. It may help to solve the problem.