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.

A Brazilian ice cream company called Kibon has come up with a cold - I mean cool - idea: sell special Fruttare popsicles with a free iPod shuffle frozen inside. In fact, Kibon is giving away 10,000 of them ice cold shuffles in their iPod No Palito promo.

Before you iPod experts jump up in protest that a shuffle can’t survive being frozen inside a popsicle even if you seal it in plastic because of the humidity, relax.

Kibon studied the situation and invented a fake ice cream that doesn’t damage the iPod shuffle. The faux popsicle, or propsicle, is safe for shuffles, and Kibon had to get the approval of Cupertino before they could go ahead with the promo in Brazil, which is currently in the throes of their summer.

The shuffle is in random propsicles, and buyers can’t tell if there is an iPod in there or not. They buy a Fruttare popsicle in one of the ten fruit flavors and take a chance if they can get a shuffle or not. Mentor Muniz Neto of Bullet Brazil, the agency that cooked - er, froze up this promo, explains how the iPods stay safe in the popsicle:

We developed a special prototype that emulates the real ice cream; it protects the iPod from humidity, and it feels like the real ice cream. It is virtually impossible to fell the difference without opening the package.”

The manual and charger can be claimed separately by calling in a code to an 800 number to get them.

Coolness.

Conceited Software today released a tiny app (3.8kb) called AudioAmp that purports to increase or amplify the volume output of iPhones.

Unfortunately that’s exactly all the information available at the moment, even if the app is already out. As to what it precisely does is still a mystery, according to various forum discussions as of this morning, and the company website is no help.

Despite the fact that I’m still on 1.1.1 and AudioAmp only works for 1.1.2, I’ve installed it to try it out anyway and haven’t seen any appreciable increases in volume, whether it be from the phone speaker or the speaker at the bottom of the unit, or from the audio out port - but neither has anyone else, right firmware or no. Mac-A-Doodle would appreciate feedback from you iPhone users if you try it out.

But still, we’re just glad there’s movement in this direction at all. Everytime someone addresses niggles, shortcomings and oversights and tries to do something about them on their own without the help of Steve is always a cause for celebration.

To get it, refresh AppTapp’s Installer and it’ll pop up and you can just install it.