Read this message carefully and see if you can spot the typo. Hint, it’s right before Matt.

It’s embarrassing when a person says the wrong word when trying to speak a foreign language, but how do you explain away this one? Sometimes people write what they’re thinking without even realizing it. Always proof read your email … before you send it.

Check Point, the developer of ZoneAlarm, will have a 24-hour free giveaway promotion for ZoneAlarm Pro on Patch Tuesday, which is Tuesday October 13, 2009.

There is already a free version of ZoneAlarm, but ZoneAlarm Pro has more features the freeware does not. ZoneAlarm Pro includes firewall protection both local and network, an OSFirewall, advanced download protection, ID protection service with free credit burea monitoring, anti-phishing, and Site Status Toolbar.

ZoneAlarm Pro does not have anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and other advanced protection functions, and it’s mainly meant to complement and is compatible with other free and paid (non-firewall) security products. ZoneAlarm does offer products with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection.

ZoneAlarm Pro 2010 retails for $39.95, but during the October 13 free giveaway you get a 1 year license for up to 3 PCs, a one year subscription, and a license serial key for activation.

Last year’s giveawy of ZoneAlarm crashed the servers so download your free copy early.

Here are the free giveaway links:

http://www.zonealarm.com/only24hours

http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index.html

The Apple iPhone OS and iPod Touch OS 3.1.2 are now available for download.

iPhone OS 3.1.2 for iPhone contains the following bug fixes and improvements:

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep.
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart.
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming.

The updated firmware 3.1.2 for iPod touch contains the following bug fixes and enhancements:

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPod touch to not wake from sleep.
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming.

The iPhone Dev Team warns those with jailbroken and unlocked iPhones to avoid the new upgrade, until they can crack it.

The 3.1.2 updates AT&T’s carrier settings file for iPhone customers in the United States, and updates the carrier settings to version 5.6.

Here are the direct download links:

iPhone EDGE (Original/Classic): iPhone1, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
iPhone 3G: iPhone1, 2_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
iPhone 3GS: iPhone2, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw

iPod Touch 1G: iPod1, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
iPod Touch 2G: iPod2, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
iPod Touch 3G: iPod3, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw

The official Chinese news agency Xinhua has falsely reported the existence of a Swedish town called Chako Paul City.

The town, supposedly founded in 1820 in the northern Swedish woods by a wealthy widow, boasts 25,000 residents and a medieval castle, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

A pair of blonde female sentries stand guard at the unnamed town, referred to in reports as Shakebao or Chako Paul City, and men wishing to enter risk being “beaten half to death” by police.

In addition, many of the town’s female residents turn to homosexuality “because they could not suppress their sexual needs”, the Chinese news service Harbin News reports. The story also formed the basis of a Shanghai Media Group television report.

Of course the entire story is fake, but that isn’t stopping millions of Chinese men from overwhelming the Internet infrastructure in Sweden in their attempt to find information on this city of Swedish lesbians.

In China there are villages made-up only of bachelors who would no doubt be very interested in merging with a lesbian city.

Someone took the initiative to register a domain name, and put up a site asking for money, while promoting the fake story about the Chako Paul girls.

Google is simplifying the design of their homepage even further to just a search box and the logo. The rest of the items on the homepage will fade in as needed.

At the moment we know Google is only bucket testing this design, and other related variations. The bucket test is only seen by some readers, and may never get released to the general public, especially since they’re regular homepage look is patented.