My favorite thing about the latest update to the iPhone (1.1.3) is the say-so it gives me over the home screen. Before this release, those precious few inches of real estate were totally controlled by Apple. Now there are still 17 icons that are Apple-chosen. The difference is they are no longer Apple-frozen. Even better, I can add icons for favorite web pages.

What have I added? Very little. It truly is prime real estate, and I’m experimenting right now. There’s one though that’s there to stay, and that’s Weather Underground’s iPhone version — set to my zip code.

Now every morning as I dash into my closet, I do it with iPhone in hand, clicking my Wunder icon. It quickly pulls up a clean, informative page of just what I need to know.

Today, for example, it reported 29.8°F and said: “Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 10 am CST….. Freezing drizzle has produced icy Road conditions …. As of 700 am…icy roads were responsible for 12 wrecks in Stewart and Benton counties…. Remember…it only takes a thin glaze of ice to produce an accident.”

It sure beats the anemic weather information that comes with Apple’s icon. I’ll give you one guess where that icon is now on my iPhone.