The only carrier licensed to sell the iPhone in the U.S. also seems to be the only carrier incompetent enough to screw it up.

iPhone 3.0 has MMS and tethering — two technologies people have been screaming about for months. But while other users around the

world can enjoy them today (ok, June 16), they're not available on AT&T.

Turns out AT&T could care less, though. They've already got the two-year contracts signed from the 2.0 launch, and don't seem to want to make things easy for "official" users.

After using and touting jEdit for all my programming needs this year, I was left high and dry this week after Apple's latest Java update seemed to cripple the app's launcher. I could still launch the editor using the jar file within the app bundle, but this wouldn't allow auto-launching or drag-and-drop opening (and the interface looked like crap).

Thank goodness Doug Letterman of Render Fast came to the rescue with a couple

of solutions (one of his own creation, and one from the Apple support forums).

So if you've been putting up with inferior editors and clamoring for a solution this week, too, relax: jEdit is back on OS X.

And for what it's worth, the developers of jEdit assure us a new version is in the works that will correct the issue "out-of-the-box," but for now, this solution should get you back in the game. Happy coding!

The ActionScript Editor Developer's Challenge is in effect now, and already the stakes have been raised: Shane Caraveo of ActiveState has donated a full license of Komodo IDE (a $295 value!) to the top vote-getter who uses the company's open-source OpenKomodo

platform to create their entry.

This is great news, and we welcome ActiveState's participation in this. The latest version of Komodo already has ActionScript 2 parsing using MTASC, and we can't wait to see what the open-source development community can do with ActionScript 3!

Remember to sign up in the Developer forums before March 15, and get your entries in by April 15. Official rules are available in the forums.

I try not to shill products or special deals in my posts, but this one's too good to keep to myself: If you've got a Mac user on your Christmas list — or if you just want to freshen your own OS X software library — you should check out the bundle currently being offered at MacUpdate's promotional site, www.mupromo.com (and no, I'm not getting any referral money for this).

For $49.95, they've packaged together eight real and useful programs that might otherwise cost more than $500 if bought separately. Sure, I'll probably never use the Marine Aquarium screensaver,

but it will make someone else happy — and I've already got my money's worth with the discounted Forklift and Yep utilities. The other programs, which include the top-rated RapidWeaver, MemoryMiner, XSlimmer, Swift Publisher and XMIND 2008 PRO, are just great gravy that I can now explore with a full license.

So why am I bothering to tell everyone else? Because if enough people buy the bundle, MacUpdate promises to throw in a couple of additional programs for free. And I could really use iStabilize myself…