Tips are a pain to calculate. It’s time consuming to pop out your calculator and hammer away if you aren’t math-savvy, and it’s just annoying when you can do it in your head. Tipulator aims to both be functional for those who need a tip calculator, yet fashionable for those who just want to have fun with one.

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So you use Twitter because you have a blog and you want to promote your articles. Or, you want to talk with your girlfiend while she’s working. These are only two examples of how people use Twitter, the first ones I can think of now. Pretty much everyone who uses Twitter on a daily basis knows everything about it, from retweets and replies to lists and DMs. But what about Favorites? On Twitter, you can mark a tweet as favorite, like you can do with photos on Flickr or Deviantart. I didn’t use this feature until a few months ago, when I realized I could start faving tweets rather than sending them to Read it Later. And yes, as soon as I started following @Digeratii and @PatrickPatience I had to start using favorites.

Besides the “saving links for later” thing, people use favorites to collect the best, most ironic and, sometimes, sarcastic tweets they find in their timelines. Just take a look at my favorites tweets to get the idea of the stuff I think it’s worth a “fave”. Now,it’s pretty obvious that by using only Twitter itself you don’t have a way of “discovering” favorite tweets around the world, and that’s why websites like Tweeteorites and Favstar came to life.

Today I’ll take a look at Tweeteorites, a web service that allows you to browse and saving tweets into your favorites, and its official iPhone application, which has been sitting in my homescreen for many weeks now.

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When I’m sitting on the couch or lying in bed, fussing around with a keyboard and mouse can be a pain. Certainly you might have the talents to manage such contraptions on your cushions, but I don’t have the patience for it. Fortunately, I don’t need to have the patience for it, since the great folks over at Edovia have decided they were sick of it too. With their release of TouchPad, they’ve integrated three peripherals - your Apple Wireless Keyboard, your Magic Mouse, and your Apple Remote, into a single iPhone app.

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if you’ve been reading my tweets lately, you should know that I’ve moved back to using Realmac’s LittleSnapper as my image library organizer application. I’ve also written a huge review about it, be sure to read it if you missed it. To sum up, I basically needed an app that could help me in a) collecting my whole image library, made of desktop screenshots, website snapshots and apps screengrabs, and b) sharing it across multiple social networks. LittleSnapper supports Ember app and Flickr, but I initially decided to use Ember as my social website of choice: I purchased a Pro account, started uploading stuff, gained a bunch of followers - I’m totally happy with it. Still I was missing something. Ember is no doubt one of the websites I visit more during the day, but it’s not a great place for photographers. As I wrote in my LS review “Ember was built with Mac and iPhone users in mind”, meaning that you’ll find tons of Apple related stuff there. I mean, take a look at my profile: it pretty much sums up the whole essence of Ember. And if you consider that Ember is developed by Realmac Software, that’s perfectly reasonable.

Now, I’m not a photographer, but I’m quite into discovering beautiful shots and adding them to my favorites. Also, I sometimes take random pics with my iPhone and edit them with that amazing app called TiltShift Generator (you should check it out, seriously). So I thought, what’s better than Flickr for that? There’s nothing better than Flickr when it comes to having a large community of passionate photographers that share their shots. I made the decision in 3 days: I deleted my old account, opened a new one with a nice vanity url, uploaded my whole Ember collection (just to be sure people who don’t use Ember could enjoy it as well), started following some people I know, purchased a Pro account. I don’t want limitations of any sort for the stuff I like. Then, I realized the one thing missing from this almost bullet proof setup was an iPhone app. But I already knew which app was the best one around.

It’s called Flickit Pro, and it’s gonna make you enjoy using Flickr from your iPhone once more. With feeling.

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If you’re quite into the Mac and iPhone software scene you should probably know that there’s one application that everybody loves when it comes to passwords management: that’s 1Password by Agileweb Solutions. I reviewed 1Password 3 a while ago, and things just haven’t changed as I’m still using 1Password and its database it’s growing bigger and bigger everyday. I guess I just couldn’t work without at this point. 1Password is great because it offers a lot of features packed in a well designed and gorgeous interface, yet doesn’t overwhelm the user with weird commands and submenus. You can automatically save logins, save credit card details in the wallet, store apps licenses and generate passwords.

Now, I’ve stumbled upon this application called uP@ssw0rdz! which, icon and name aside, could really come in handy to those people who don’t need the multiple features of 1Password and just need a simple, dictionary based password generator and manager.

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Seems like the features of the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 were revealed to BGR.

“There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same as the iPhone)

“A few new ways” to run applications in the background — multitasking.

Many graphical and UI changes to make navigating through the OS easier and more efficient. We haven’t had this broken down, but we can only hope for improved notifications, a refreshed homescreen, etc.

The update will supposedly be available for only the iPhone 3G and 3GS, but will “put them ahead in the smartphone market because it will make them more like full-fledged computers” more than any other phone to date. Everyone is “really excited.”

The last piece of information is the most vague, but apparently there will be some brand new syncing ability for the contacts and calendar applications.”

True or not, we should expect some big changes from the new firmware.

I am always curious about how people effectively manage their Macs or iPhones. As a matter of fact, I’m always looking for suggestions, idea..inspiration. To satisfy my curiosity, I made a quick poll on Twitter and I asked my followers to send me their first page of their iPhone springboard, including the #sharethe1st hashtag.

So, feel free to @reply me on Twitter with a screenshot of your 1st Springboard page. Please also include the #sharethe1st hashtag. The pics you send me will make it into a post, together with a link to your Twitter profile and website. Even you’ve already sent me a screenshot but you made some changes, you can send me the new one.

Enjoy!

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I really don’t know how many note taking applications are available for iPhone. I guess Steve doesn’t know either. But let me guess..

A lot.

Seems like together with Twitter clients and feeds readers, that of notes apps is a profitable market, or I couldn’t find an explanation for these thousands of similar apps floating around in the App Store. But you know what, amongst ugly and bad developed applications usually lie the awesome gems I review on MacStories. Speaking of note taking apps, John Gruber was the first to talk about Simplenote, and everyone started loving this app, which consists of an iPhone client and a web service. Simplenote is powerful, and the recent update made it am outstanding piece of software - built with power users in mind.

Today I’d like to talk about an application that has a similar purpose but takes a slightly different approach, focusing less on the pro features and more on the user interface. We’re gonna take some Synotes.

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I am always curious about how people effectively manage their Macs or iPhones. As a matter of fact, I’m always looking for suggestions, idea..inspiration. To satisfy my curiosity, I made a quick poll on Twitter and I asked my followers to send me their first page of their iPhone springboard, including the #sharethe1st hashtag.

So, feel free to @reply me on Twitter with a screenshot of your 1st Springboard page. Please also include the #sharethe1st hashtag. The pics you send me will make it into a post, together with a link to your Twitter profile and website. Even you’ve already sent me a screenshot but you made some changes, you can send me the new one.

Enjoy!

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