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Eye Scream Factory today announced the availability of new DVD Template Theme Sets. Each DVD Template Theme Set includes main and chapter DVD menu templates in HD, NTSC, PAL, and DV along with matching disc labels, case inserts, and background images. Users can easily create new looks and styles by adjusting colors, changing text, and moving layers. Templates are provided as layered Adobe Photoshop files. Background images are provided as JPGs.

Cramzy has released 18 000 COOL JOKES for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Aiming to be the Ultimate Jokes App, 18 000 COOL JOKES is organized into 48 different categories. Users can use to filter short/medium/long jokes and make any combination of these, with all jokes displayed in random order.

Happymagenta Project today released Nice Trace 1.0, their new traceroute utility for iPhone. The Nice Trace utility traces the route to the host using a graphically nice style and animations. It continues to monitor the whole path to the network resource in real-time. Perfect for network administrators, webmasters and developers alike, Nice Trace is also a helpful network diagnostics instrument that helps find bottlenecks and problems along the path to a given host.

California based Core Concepts has announced Rich Diamond 1.3 an update to their popular puzzle/strategy game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, Rich Diamond features 335 levels, each ranked from easy to challenging. The goal of each puzzle is to collect all of the gems, then reach the exit. Each puzzle has a number of traps that provide the solving challenge.

Performance Journeys has announced Disney at Work: Magic Kingdom for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Put the organizational lessons and stories of Disney to work in your own organization through this new interactive showcase. Learn powerful best-in-business insights on how to improve your workplace by benchmarking the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Created by J. Jeff Kober of Performance Journeys, it’s loaded with scores of examples and hundreds of detailed photos.

California based Toy Kite Software has released iSamurai Bluetooth, the new version of their action/simulation sword fighting game for iPhone and iPod Touch. iSamurai is the first Wii-like game for the iPhone, and now using Apple’s recently released 3.0 software, it is one of the first multiplayer games that can be played anywhere over Bluetooth. In iSamurai, players attack and defend with their iPhones, slashing and blocking their way to victory against their friends.

Softpress has announced that Freeway 5 will be featured at a pair of Los Angeles-area events followed by a presentation at the North Coast Mac User Group. First up will be a presentation for the Los Angeles chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers on Thursday, July 16th. Next up is the Digital Actor Workshop, a special event for actors looking to improve their online presence on Sunday, July 19th. The tour will conclude with a presentation to the NCMUG on Tuesday, July 21st.

Calf Trail Software has released Geotagalog 1.4, their innovative tracklog based geotagging utility for Mac OS X. Geotagalog enables precise iPhoto Places support with any digital camera. It automatically combines digital photos with location data from a GPS tracklog. Version 1.4 brings significant performance improvements and better control over which files are imported into iPhoto.

Blue Lightning Labs has announced a sale on their popular iPhone application Mathemagics, an application for learning to mentally calculate math problems at phenomenal speeds. For a limited time Mathemagics is on sale at more than 60% off. Mathemagics 1.1 contains 20 different math tricks for multiplying, dividing and squaring numbers faster than many people can use a calculator.

Alta Vida LLC has announced a sale on Babelingo, their language translation utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. For a limit time the app is on sale at more than 80% off. Containing 11 languages (110 unique language combinations), Babelingo is an easy-to-use phrase book communicator, allowing anyone to show a professionally translated phrase to a foreign language audience. Phrases are displayed in a large and beautifully rendered script, easily read from a distance.