We all know the feeling. Hearing that great song on the radio that you’d give up your Mac to remember the artist and title. Or come across this great new song playing in someone’s car or in the mall that you’d give up your iPod to know the name of. Well, these days all you’d really need is your iPhone, a wifi connection and Listen.

TUAW’s Erica Sadun, lead purveyor of free crazysexycool apps and utilities for the iPhone has come up with with another winner.

Imagine you hear that mysterious song somewhere with wifi, and you happen to have your iPhone. Fire up Erica’s Listen, put your iPhone near the audio, wait a few seconds, and you get the artist, title and album the song came from, right on the multi-touch screen. Sounds too good to be true.

Listen samples five seconds of audio, then goes online to consult a database, matches the sample to the music and spits back the song info. Is that crazysexycool or what?

I used it in the office today, and people went oooh and ahhh. Granted, it doesn’t catch everything. It caught maybe three out of every five (it’s still a beta, after all), but sample a reasonably popular song and it’d get it every time. And it’s not really a new idea - there are cellphones with this sort of feature out already for a while now. But hey, who cares? This one’s sure to make it into the Doodler’s Top 10 Favorites for 2008.

The Listen beta is available for your iPhone via Installer beginning today.

One of the most tepid, dishwater-weak and featureless of the built-in Apple apps for the iPhone is the barely functional Photos app. Even the cheapest digicam or cam phone has more features than that one.

Well, someone’s finally done something about it and made a somewhat-free and more capable photo app. It’s called Camera PRO for iPhone, and offers a few shoulda-been-in-the-box features for free (and some not so free).

Considering that it’s just a matter of time before Apple beefs up their own software in a future update, these entrepreneurs from Amsterdam are striking while the iron is hot and is charging for additional “Premium” features. Some are in numbered trial mode, and others yet to come (including a send-to-Flickr feature).

Rather than take time explaining the app to you (and because they say a picture is worth a thousand words and I’m still too sleepy to type much), I just screen-capped the welcome screen on my iPhone, because everything’s there anyway:

It works, too. Here’s a shot I took using the default no-choice settings:

And using the zoom feature of Camera PRO where I didn’t move the iPhone:

Focus seems to be a problem still, but hey, anything’s better than what we got now, right?

V. 1.04 now available via Installer.

If you aren’t yet aware, Adobe updated and patched their Flash Player last week, and fixed nine weak spots in the app - most of them rated “highly critical”, where malware and hackers can take advantage of vulnerabilities in SWF files. These weaknesses are present in Windows, Linux and Mac.

Two of the bugs were caught and reported by Google engineers, and two by people from Stanford U. The update, Flash Player 9.0.115.0, can be downloaded from the Adobe website. Folk who still use Version 7 are advised to get the patched version of 7 rather than 9.0.115.0.

Mac users need not fret, though. If you got the last Security Update (2007-009 V.1.1) released just before Christmas, you’re already covered, as the Adobe update was already incorporated into it.

(Via Computerworld US Online)

The Playstation emulator circulating in beta has officially been released at Version 0.1.0.

The emulator, psx4iPhone, of course needs PSX ROM files, like the other emulators out for Apple’s phone, and you’re on your own trying to find some. It looks a lot like the GameBoy Advanced emulator, and has roughly the same features, like game saves, etc. And like the others, it’s still a bit clunky, with poor audio and herky-jerky video, but it’s a great start.

You can download it from the Home of Homebrew ZodTTD and manually install it, but as of today, it’s been available via Installer. Load your ROMs in Media/ROMs/PSX.

Those of you who own a regular 5 or 5.5Gen iPod video but secretly covet an iPod Touch with its wifi and multi-touch interface - well, you’re SOL: you’d still need to either buy a Touch or get over it; no hack’ll solve your problems.

But if you want to settle for just a similar looking interface, you’re in better luck.

The same kooks who brought you the hack that gives your iPod video the iPod Classic’s interface has created a new hack that gives iPod videos the same menus and look of the iPod Touch - if not the multitouch capability.

It’s a bit involved, but the guys at iPodHacking.com assure us there is no way the hack will brick your iPod video, so you can rest easy and hack away with impunity.

Free download link and instructions are here.

Once again, Mac-A-Doodle would like to remind everyone that we’re just passing on the info, ok? Hax0r beware.