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Vienna based Eternal Storms Software today announced the immediate availability of flickery 1.1.1, a unique desktop flickr client for Mac OS X Leopard. flickery combines the flickr photo-community with the ease-of-use and elegance of Mac OS X. Easily upload photos to Flickr photostream, organize photos in photosets and groups, browse Favorites and more. Version 1.1.1 features sharing of photos on websites by providing the HTML source, interface and speed-improvements and more than 30 bug fixes.

Advenio today is pleased to announce the release of Cloudburst 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Cloudburst: it’s your quick and simple weather, all in a single glance. Cloudburst shows you the current weather conditions, including temperature, wind, visibility, etc. for your favorite locations. In the same view, you also get the current weather radar picture and the four day at-a-glance forecast. Weather conditions and radar in an instant.

This is really two hints for iPhone 3.0 and MobileMe:

Hint #1: Instead of selecting five photos in Camera Roll and emailing them, select as many photos as you want and copy them. Open a new Mail message, and paste the photos in the body of the email. This is an easy way to email more than five photos.

Hint #2: Set up a new album on MobileMe, and make sure to enable email uploading of photos. Retrieve the email address by clicking on the Settings tab after publishing the new album. Then add that address to your contact list (name it MobileMeUpload or somesuch).

Combining these two hints, you can select all the photos you want in the Camera Roll, copy them, and email them to your MobileMeUpload contact. The iPhone 3G tends to slow down when there are more than 10 or so photos, but it still works with more.

If you copy information from styled pages — web sites, documents, etc. — you’re aware that if you then paste that information (Command-V) in a style-aware application, the style gets pasted, too. Most of the time this is just annoying. The workaround is to use Paste and Match Style (Shift-Command-Option-V) instead. However, it’s a pain to do this every time.

Yesterday on Twitter, a solution made the rounds: just use the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the System Preferences panel to set Paste and Match Style to Command-V. Open that panel, click the plus sign, leave the first pop-up set to All Applications, enter Paste and Match Style in the Menu Title box, type Command-V in the Keyboard Shortcut box, then click Add.

An anonymous tipster submitted a command-line version of this modification, in case you want/need to run it remotely or push it out via Apple Remote Desktop …

When you have a lot of applications installed on your iPhone, the Apple way of moving their icons (dragging from one screen to the other) may be a cumbersome task.

If your device is jailbroken, it is possible to edit the programs’ locations by hand. You have to connect to your iPhone’s filesystem (by AFP or SFTP), and then copy this file…

/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist

…to your desktop. (This path is for iPhone OS 2.2.1; it may have changed with OS 3.0.)

Open it with Property List Editor and unfold the iconState » iconLists. Icons are ordered by page (from 0 to 8), then an iconMatrix (line from 0 to 4, and column from 0 to 4). Each app is identified by a displayIdentifier code. Hex codes are for Safari desktop favorites, and integers 0 for empty spaces. Here’s a screenshot so you can see exactly what it looks like.

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DEVONtechnologies today releases updates for the popular freeware find-find utility EasyFind and the menu bar application and file launcher XMenu. The updates add a number of useful features to the freeware utilities EasyFind and XMenu and fix a few minor bugs. EasyFind finds files, folders, or contents in any file without the need for indexing. XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar.

publicspace.net has announced A Better Finder Rename 8.23, an update to its popular file, music and photo renaming utility. A Better Finder Rename is a sophisticated tool that caters for the full range of file renaming tasks encountered by the modern creative professional. The new release extends the existing music file renaming features of the tool with new capabilities.

M.O.C. Interior Designer today announces Mark On Call 1.3, a major update to their popular interior design and customization tool for iPhone and iPod touch. Users can create accurate custom-sized rooms, access and re-size 156 furniture and architectural elements, lay down surfaces, and render fabrics chosen from a palette of preset options or custom-created using the phone’s camera or photo library. Version 1.3 has been completely redesigned resulting in overall increased ease-of-use.

Cynical Peak Software is excited to announce the release of Rivet 2.2. Rivet enables users to stream video, music, and photos from Mac OS X to an Xbox 360 or PS3 over their home network. Users can now easily enjoy all of their media on their big screen TV from the comfort of their living room. Version 2.2 adds movie thumbnail and music album art support, expanded metadata, and performance optimizations.

About Objects today released a new set of iPhone 3.0 developer examples as free, downloadable Xcode projects. The example projects form a progressive series designed to take developers from the rudiments of iPhone programming through the development of sophisticated iPhone productivity apps. Developers are free to use the examples for their own learning, and can even use the example code in their own projects if they so choose.