I have downloaded it, but, I haven’t had a chance to use it yet, as my iPod Touch needs to make a stop to the Apple Store for a check on why it will not charge or connect to my computer. I am thinking about just getting a new iPod Touch, because the screen is also cracked.

As for the App, It looks really nice, it has had some really awesome reviews from what I have seen so far. Elaine from meebo made the official announcement on the blog and here is a link to the iPhone application’s page on their site. If you want to download the application right now, from the App Store, here is that link.

It was great to get to work with every one of the TalkShoe Users and TalkShoe Staff. Working with the staff at TalkShoe was great, they were all great to me and I’ve enjoyed my stay as Support Specialist at TalkShoe.

I am moving on to pursue more opportunities in my life, things like the musical/drama and Science Olympiad at my school; and volunteering around my community as I always have done. Although I am leaving the company as an Employee, I am staying a user and TalkShoe community member.

Update: For those that emailed in, yes – I would be willing to work with Dave again in the future!

When I was about 12 I was starting to really get into the Internet and Web 2.0 stuff. Podcasting was one of them. I really remember watching a podcast awhile back and then I started listening and watching more podcasts. I thought, how could I do this and how hard would it be? I had been using a web service called meebo for awhile and they had just introduced Apps and TalkShoe happened to be one of them. I found Podcaster Training and started listening to archived episodes. Then I started getting into Participating in the shows, by this time I was 13 and I started with my original show, TechCast and I have come a long way since then.

This includes a change in what the subject looks like as well, making it more descriptive! From what I understand, this ensures that emails actually make it to every member’s inbox.

Give Wetpaint some feedback on Wetpaint Central and Great job Wetpaint Developers and the rest of the Team!

If you were wondering, “Is this prerecorded or live?”, Well as of right now, it’ll be prerecorded and at sometime I might bring it back to live. Just want to see how to do this and how well it will work this way, first.

I’ll be talking with Ben (the original co-host) and see if he can keep his part going with a Mac Segment for the show, as well. This new version of “TechCast” should be ready to launch by late July or early August. I can’t wait. I’ll keep you updated, the RSS will be on Feedburner.

Thanks for being a part of the community. We’ll keep you updated with all of the details.

Below are some of the things that are included in the next version of WordPress (2.6):

• Post Revisioning
• A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
• Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
• A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
• Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
• Built-in word counting in the post editor
• The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
• XML-RPC API for changing blog options
• Better SSL support for the Admin
• Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
• The ability to relocate your content directory
• The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
• Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
• Customizable default avatars
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
• Check box range selection with shift-click
• TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
• jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
• jQuery UI 1.5
• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

Can’t wait to see the 2.6 stable version so that I can use it for this blog.

As meebo stated in their blog post,

• the background has been darkened to improve console and link readability.
• the new chrome uses fewer colors for faster loading (a section of the title-bar has 4 colors only).
• the new minimize, maximize, and close buttons are more streamlined so they don’t have too much that “click-me-now” feeling.
• the background, buttons and chrome colors all come from the same family of blues.
• icons have been reworked to use a consistent palette, so that no icon is more prominent than others.
• buttons have been updated to match the buttons introduced in the website redesign of a couple months ago.
• last but not least, new color schemes have been added: aqua, brown, carbon, red.

The day I saw this in my Preferences on Meebo Beta, It put a smile on my face! Why? Well to me, having the meebo interface how I want it to display is one of the Best Things that you can do!

For those that don’t like the flat skins.. There still are some of the Classic Skins on Meebo in your Preferences.

PS: David says that a new onyx design (v2) will be out in the near future – Stay Tuned to the Meebo Blog!

Although I already have Firefox 3 RC 3, I will be upgrading to Firefox 3 tomorrow to help Firefox hit their world Record that they want! I’ve add a Download Day / Firefox 3 Badge to the sidebar. Did you know that I have optimized this blog for Firefox? Look at the Footer:

JoshB is proudly powered by WordPress / Feedburner and Optimized for Firefox | Designed by: Bob and Commenting by: Disqus.

So, are you downloading Firefox 3.0 tomorrow? Together we can make Mozilla make it to the world record book.

Besides the Firefox information in this blog post, I’d like to UPDATE you on how the finals are going. I started my Science final today and will probably finish it tomorrow, I will start/finish my Math final tomorrow and for the Social Studies one, I will start that tomorrow and finish it on Thursday.

Thanks for reading, I am looking forward to reading your comments below.

UPDATE: Comments have been restored.

We currently have a new theme called Green Love on the site along with a new commenting system – called Disqus. You can comment just as you would have with the other commenting, but this one has some extra features – I’ll post those later. I think this theme is much better than the other one was.

Not only with a new theme and new commenting, I’ve added a contact form to the Contact page and I’ve added an about Josh page with information about me and where you can find me on the web. Plus, if you go to a page that is not found, it forwards you back to the homepage – soon this will give you the most popular posts and most commented posts. The sidebar also has some changes with the new theme and things I’ve added – I’ve added the Pages, a Disqus sidebar box, Utterz Widget, MyBlogLog widget, a Call Me widget powered by Grandcentral and a Subscribe and Share icon.

I’ve got a contest for all of you now – You know how Google changes their logos for holidays? I’d like to do that as well, here! So, If you can create a background image (800 x 135 Pixels) and that must be the size of the image. Here is the current one. You can send the contest logos to me by sending an email to josh [at] buddes [dot] net. The holidays I would like to see contest logos for are Christmas, Birthday, Fourth of July, New Years, Halloween, Memorial day, Thanksgiving and Veterans day.

What do you think of my Blog’s new theme? Give me feedback via the contact form, twitter or Commenting with the new Commenting system powered by Disqus.

Screen Shots: Web Client | Pro Client

Request to Talk using the Phone - Are you just on the phone and have joined a TalkShoe Call? Dial *8 (*T) if you are muted and the host will unmute you at some point, if they wish.

Number of Participants - If you’ve seen some shows live on TalkShoe, you’ve probably realized it is telling you how many participants that show has On the Homepage and on the Live Now page.

Screen Shots: Homepage | Live Now Page

As Dave said in the blog post on TalkShoe, this is the most stable release on TalkShoe, yet.

This week’s new release has been our most stable ever (still not quite perfect – there are occasional streaming failures that we’re working to resolve)