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I connected my iPhone to my Mac at 1:30pm EST to charge it and iTunes announced the availability of version 4.0 of iOS.

The 292 MB update is downloading as I type this. How exciting!

There aren’t many new features for my 3G iPhone (no multi-tasking, no facetime, no video editing), but still, there is enough in there to make it worthwhile. The unified mailbox is a long awaited feature (I have nearly 10 different mailboxes on my iPhone).

Apple announced today that they have sold more than 2 million iPads since its launch on April 3, 2010.

That’s crazy successful. If they keep this rate, and I have no doubt that they will and even more, that means they should sell more than 9 million of them by the end of 2010. At a minimum price of $500, that would mean the potential for 2010 sales of the iPad is over $4.5 BILLION!

I sure have contributed to this success. I received mine at noon on Friday 28th or May.

I had pre-ordered as soon as it was available for pre-order here in Canada.

So far I’m enjoying it quite a bit.

After a long and hard service for 14 years, my LaserWriter Select 360 died today :(

They sure made them durable in those days.

I bought the printer in 1994 for $2300 Canadian and it’s been working every day ever since (about 5 days a week). Daily print run of about 15 pages minimum. That’s 50,000 pages over its lifetime at minimum. It had 11 toner cartridge changes.

So, any printer recommendations? It has to be laser and it has to be networked to a bunch of Macs, all running Leopard.