Finally - Copy and Paste in Safari and Mail - Soon

As someone who has Copiercin on their iPhone in an attempt to simulate Copy and Paste one of the biggest Apps are missing from that mix, Safari. That’s where you’ll be needing to copy and paste from the most. There have been a couple attempts to provide this feature with javascript bookmarklets etc, but Pastebud so far has beat them all.

Jed Schmidt, creator of Pastebud, has conceived a way to copy and paste text from Safari to Mail, and between web pages. And this time, it doesn’t require any software installation and it’s legal:

Unlike other approaches, it works with the two apps that matter
most, Mail and Safari, and gets around Apple’s onerous App Store terms
through a clever combination of javascript bookmarks and web services.

In fact, it doesn’t require anything to be installed, so it avoids the App Store altogether. As you can see in the video, Pastebud—as the service is called—works using two bookmarks in Safari. One prepares and
loads the page you are viewing, ready to select text at the touch of a finger. From there, you can copy any text you want and create a new mail message with that text in it. In addition to that, you will be able to copy and paste in the text field of a different web page.

While this is not full copy and paste capabilities, I, for one, welcome the ability do exactly this, which is basically what I want to do 95% of the time. According to Jed Schmidt, creator of Pastebud, they have been testing it for about a week and they are now “putting the finishing touches on the web site before launch”.

[via Gizmodo]

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Navizon now on the iPhone AppStore

Navizion just released a version of their App for the iPhone via the AppStore. It has most of the features of the previous versions that was available to jailbroken phones via Installer such as:

- display your position on a map even in places where you wouldn’t get your location otherwise
- the Buddy Finder to display all your friends on a map
- the Navizon alerts (where you can be notified by email when your parents get closer to home or when they leave work for example)
- the trail logging to keep track of all the places you go

But one of the cool new things is that if you own an iPhone 3G, you are now able to earn rewards just by having Navizon running on your iPhone. Every cell tower that you log, every WiFi access point that you pass by will mean points in your account that you can later turn into cash. Not a bad thing in these difficult economic times..

Navizoin released a Lite and a full version. The Lite version doesn’t have trail logging, rewards and has a limited number of alerts monthly. But you can use the first 10,000 points earned to upgrade to the full version and enjoy all of the features of the full version.

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Hidden feature turns iPhone into TV gaming device

With a little work and the help of an undocumented feature in Apple’s iPhone Software Developers Kit, one iPhone developer was able to turn its game into a version suited for playback on big-screen TVs.

After discovering the hidden MPTVOutWindow class in the iPhone SDK last month, ArsTechnica’s Erica Sadun got in touch with Freeverse, makers of Moto Chaser, and encouraged them to experiment with the APIs. A few hours later, the TV version of the iPhone game was born. Though largely demonstrative, the game uses the iPhone’s accelerometer for input and steering while routing the game’s video through a video-out cable to the TV. Freeverse noted that the program ran best on the second-generation iPod touch, which includes a 532MHz processor compared to the iPhone and iPhone 3G’s 412MHz chip.

Even so, Moto Chaser maxed out at around 20 frames per second, making it “nearly playable,” according Freeverse, whose producer Bruce Morrison noted that the “norm for commercial games is 30fps, a point at
which motion becomes as smooth and watchable as normal TV video.” Sound quality, however, was said to be greatly improved when pumped through a respectable sound system.

“When Morrison approached senior programmer Mark Levin, he had basically one set of instructions. ‘Make it work before lunch.’,” Ars reported. “Freeverse had very little time to allocate to putting together the demo. In the end, the entire development effort took about three hours.”

(via AppleInsider.com)

An Average of 2.2 Million iPhone Apps downloded every day from the AppStore - Apple and Developers had a good year

Though arguably still in its infancy, Apple’s App Store has already reached a daily run rate that’s seen iPhone and iPod touch users combine to download approximately 2.2 million applications every
day. (wow)

Apple hasn’t announced that figure outright, but CNBC’s Jim Goldman drew attention to one of the company’s advertisement in the New York Times today that says iPhone users have “downloaded over 300 million” applications from the App Store since it launched in July. The last time the iPhone maker provided an update on App Store downloads was October 21st, when it noted that users would download the

200 millionth app the following day. That means that in just 45 days shoppers have downloaded another 100 million apps, or well over 2 million per day. Meanwhile, market intelligence firm comScore said Thursday that Apple.com was the 5th most trafficked retail site on Cyber Monday — the Monday immediately following Black Friday — with 3.68 million shoppers hitting its store pages, a 43 percent increase from average daily traffic during the month of November. eBay (12.9 million) took top honors, followed by big-box retailers Amazon.com (9.2 million), Wal-Mart (6.76 million), and Target (4.8
million).

[via AppleInsider]

G-Map for iPhone - Turn by Turn GPS may be coming to the iPhone - If Apple Approves

Traveling somewhere you’ve never been? Or need directions right away? Hopefully one day soon you’ll be able to run G-Map on your iPhone. G-Map can show you the way wherever you go, even with no Wi-Fi connection or in dead zones up in the mountains, out on the ocean, or even in an airplane.

G-Map is a stand-alone electronic map. So once it’s downloaded, you can freely search your location and get directions without an internet connection, anytime, anywhere, even when you’re on the move.

G-Map’s massive databaase will help you find any desired location, and can also provide detailed information of the searched location such as address and phone number. It’s also possible to enter your own personal notes or make changes to the information of the location searched, so you can even use your G-Map as a travel notebook.

Free “Promotional” Copies of iPhone Apps from Developers

Apple has announced that they are now allowing iPhone developers to issue as many as 50 free promotional copies of their applications. This will allow the recipient of a promotional AppStore link to redeem your code to download a full copy for free.

As of now, the codes currently only work in the U.S. App Store. The limit on the number of codes that can be issued for each app is reset every time the app is updated.

[via MacRumors]