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Elixir has announced their highly configurable Executive theme. The Executive theme excels in providing a highly versatile RapidWeaver theme with stunning graphics that make it easy to build a website, for business or fun, in a relatively short period of time. Executive makes use of the RapidWeaver color picker. With it you can change the colors for man areas of your site design. It is a great choice for creating a business site, small or large, portfolio, blog and much more.

We-Envision.com has announced that they are shipping a major upgrade to their line of 50 Web-image browsing “Envi” iPhone apps through the iTunes App Store. The 2.0 update, free to all current Envi app users, brings thumbnails, Ken Burns motion effect and a number of other advanced display features to the line, along with access to in-depth Web-based topic information and over a dozen new features. The upgraded line has been qualified on Apple’s new iPhone OS 3.0, which will ship this week.

Open Door Networks, Inc. and Project A, Inc. have announced that they are celebrating two major milestones in their iPhone development efforts. The companies have just sold their 100,000th “Envi” application, and have 50 apps shipping through the iTunes App Store. We-Envision.com’s line of topic-specific Web-image browsing applications has grown from the original iEnvision Web-image browser to a comprehensive set of inexpensive apps on topics including art, cars, space, travel and more.

Minneapolis-based Pixel Research Labs has announced Ringer 1.0, their iPhone ringtone creation and editing tool for Mac OS X. Ringer sports a modern, clear, easy-to-use interface and is a perfect complement to the iPhone. Users may choose any non-protected file from their iTunes library or any media file on their system and turn it into a custom ringtone. Easily select just the right part of a song to turn into a ringtone. Preview it exactly as it will sound on the iPhone.

Monkeybread Software has announced Combine PDFs 4.3, an update to their popular PDF merge and split tool for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, Combine PDFs is a lightweight utility which allows anyone to merge PDF files and images into a single PDF file. Simply Drag and Drop several PDF files on to the program icon. A window will appear allowing the ability to change the order in which the files are joined. Version 4.3 sports many new improvements and a recommended download.

Flat Earth Studio has announced I Ching (Yi Jing), the Book of Changes 1.1 software update for iPhone and iPod touch. The Guide, written for the Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes translation, is included in both English and German, and is the first of several translations and commentaries planned to be provided through this unique app. This update includes “A Guide to the I Ching” by Carol K. Anthony of the I Ching Institute, a new “quick” oracle feature, and other minor enhancements.

Jumsoft has expanded its selection of Pages Clipart images designed to illustrate presentations, invitations, Web pages, posters, newsletters, and a variety of other documents. Pages Clipart 4.0 provides vast possibilities to increase documents’ visual appeal due to its extensive range of images, wide compatibility, and smart technical details like transparent image backgrounds and PDF format.

Macvide has announced FlashVideo Converter 3.0, their Flash SWF and FLV to video conversion utility for Mac OS X. FlashVideo Converter is a powerful and versatile utility for converting any flash video file to one of many popular video formats, including iPhone/iPod mp4, Mobile .3gp and MPEG2. FlashVideo fully support ActionScript. FlashVideo Converter can be used for a myriad of different purposes. Version 3.0 features a new Video Engine to create true 30 FPS movies, and more.

ActyMac has announced DutyWatch 1.2, an update to their Employee Monitoring Software for Mac OS X. DutyWatch record and log everything your employees do, from recording keystrokes typed and website visits, to chats, employee emails and screenshots. DutyWatch is completely invisible to your employees. It runs silently and unobtrusively while logging everything that happens on their computers. Version 1.2 sports a 10 times speed increased, new database engine, and more.

Azure Talon Software has launched iLaugh 2.0, its popular jokes database for iPhone and iPod touch. With iLaugh on-hand, users no longer have to rely on their memories to come up with hilarious jokes at the office or social events, or even when needing something clever to say to begin a speech or presentation. iLaugh 2.0 puts a database of over 50,000 jokes at anybody’s fingertips and is loaded with social features such as voting, favorites and sharing via Facebook and Twitter.