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Unfortunately, a bug in Snow Leopard may mean you’re not seeing all the Services you should see in the contextual menu that appears when you right-click on a document or a text selection. You can, however, make those Services appear in the contextual menu:

1. Open the Keyboard System Preferences panel, and select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
2. Select Services in left-hand column.
3. Deselect and reselect the Services you wish to appear in the contextual menu.

After toggling, the selected Services now appear at the bottom of the contextual menu. Credit isn’t mine — I found the details of this bug in Rob Griffiths’ write-up on Snow Leopard’s Services.

[robg adds: I had totally forgotten I’d written about this bug, and it seems it’s…

App Popular, LLC today announces the launch of a new Promo Codes Stream section inside App Popular 1.2, a free iPhone and iPod Touch application available exclusively from the Apple iTunes App Store. This new feature lets users with a United States iTunes account receive free downloads of paid iPhone applications. iPhone developers may submit a minimum of five promotion codes for their paid apps and in exchange receive a week’s placement in this segmented data stream free of charge.

Creaceed today announces Elasty HD 2.0 in beta version. Designed for any video camera owner from casual to heavy users, Elasty HD 2.0 is the Toolbox for customizing Movies on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Stabilization, Special Effects, Motion Tracking and Retiming are some of Elasty HD’s convenient features. Version 2.0 addresses a large number of feature requests from active users, and the user interface was completely redesigned in order to make it much easier to navigate.

TechCrunch reports that Apple has expanded its browser-based ‘iTunes Preview’ functionality to include pages for App Store applications.

To see this for yourself, open any direct link to an iPhone app (example) in your favorit…

Berlin based Savoy Software today introduces Liquid Scale 1.0, a new mobile image processing app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Liquid Scale offers innovative opportunities for retouching while the operation remains extremely simple. The program makes it possible to scale images in any way without distorting or reducing the motif. It is even possible to move two motifs closer together or remove individual persons out of the image.

MEI today announces version 6 of the vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform. The vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform is a flexible, scalable solution that allows publishing professionals to manage their design and editorial workflows and deliver multimedia content to a variety of output channels. MEI has already installed the latest version of the world’s leading editorial management system integrating Adobe InDesign and InCopy at several publishing sites.

SEAS today released DozeGuard 1.0, a helpful tool for all audio book lovers using an iPhone. The app allows to play audio books from the users media library while constantly monitoring whether the user is still awake. If the user didn’t move the device for a certain time, the app stops playing the title and records the current position. If the title is then selected the next time, the user may easily locate the last position.

UK based Quapps Interactive today is pleased to announce iPhotoFit 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. iPhotoFit is a photograph manipulation application that allows you to mix the facial parts of your favourite celebrities into one. It allows you to move, rotate, flip and blend every facial part to ensure a seamless final photograph. When you have created your perfect man or woman or mix, you can post direct to your facebook gallery for all of your friends to see.

Miami based iPhone Services Depot has launched a new Free Shipping campaign for all customers using their iPhone Repair Service. Every iPhone repair ordered from their website includes a Free Back Shipping service. It means the company not only offers lowest rates for high quality iPhone repair services on the web but takes care of all shipping expenses. iPhone Services Depot uses Insured USPS Priority Mail method to deliver customer’s iPhone back as soon as possible.

Moyea Software today announced the new release of Moyea Flash Video MX for Mac, to meet the needs of Mac users, who want to convert video to Flash and publish video on web page with easy sample HTML code. Moyea Flash Video MX for Mac includes basic video editing functions and quick video conversion. Additionally, Moyea Flash Video MX for Mac enables users to add company logo, image or video as watermark and text watermark for brand advertising.