From Shawn Blanc’s review:

• Text: Even thousands of words copy over quickly, and text is the only data type that you can copy from one mac and past to another using Pastebot as the middle-man.

• Images: Copying a photo from within iPhoto will send the actual picture. Though the title of the image from iPhoto does not transfer. Copying a whole slew of images from iPhoto gives Pastebot a datatype that it doesn’t recognize. However, it still maintains the data. For example, I copied 9 images from iPhoto, they showed up in Pastebot as unknown Mac data, but from there I was still able to paste them onto my Desktop. Also, copying an image from Preview will get the full image onto your iPhone and allow you to use it on your iPhone. But copying the image file from the Finder only sends the file-type icon.

• Audio and Video: Copying an audio or video file from iTunes sends the metadata to Pastebot. But it’s metadata based on where in iTunes the file was copied from.

On the other hand, if you copy an audio or video file from within the Finder it sends that file’s relevant icon to Pastebot. And if you then paste that icon back to the Finder, it will paste the audio or video file; pasting it when in a plain text document will paste the filename; pasting it in a rich text document or an email will attach the file; and trying to paste into iTunes does nothing.

• Folders & Zip Files: You can copy an entire folder or zip file. It shows up in Pastebot as a folder or zip icon, but pasting it back to the Finder the whole folder, with all its contents, shows up unscathed.

You can email a file that Pastebot itself doesn’t recognize but it gets sent as an icon file. Sending a ZIP file you copied into Pastebot will only send the 512×512 icon titled as filename.zip. Similarly, sending a folder sends the icon of a folder named after the folder you had copied.

• PDFs: Copying a page of a PDF document from within Preview will send that actual page. You can then paste it into the finder and you’ll get the page as if it were dragged out from Preview.

Pretty powerful, huh?

When I first reviewed Read it Later for iPhone back in June (link) I wrote that it perfectly filled many voids left by Instapaper: it had lots of interesting features like sharing, send via mail, offline viewing that made it stand out from the crowd. Then something strange happened: Instapaper started getting a lot better. New servers for improved performances, a brand new iPhone app with cool features, support for other iPhone apps (Tweetie and tumblr), gorgeous interface…Read it Later wasn’t the best read later app anymore, Marco Arment won. But you know, history is a circle: things repeat over time, those who lost the battle may win again in a not so far away future. And that’s what has just happened today: Read it Later 2.0 for iPhone is out in the App Store, and it’s taken the place it once had: the throne.

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Some cool updates landed on the AppStore tonight and they include some of my favorite apps:

Broadersheet

This 1.4 update dramatically improves the app’s performances and brings full offline reading for every article. Read my review here if you missed it.

Canabalt

Global leaderboards, new obstacles and new alternate music soundtrack for one of the best games I’ve ever installed on my iPhone. Is it enough?

Also, Read it Later 2.0 is out, but there are some problems with the updating process. Guess the App Store is a little bit slow in delivering this 2.0 release. You’ll know more about it as soon as I’ll be able to install the update.

If you ever wondered how much work goes into creating a little, awesome iPhone app like Warships, this video from Sebastian de With is for you.

And here’s the original blog post. In case you haven’t, go buy Warships now.

One month ago I wrote that Reeder was the new best RSS reader for iPhone. Then, some people started criticizing my review, telling me that Newsstand was way better than Reeder: it had more features, better stability and - this is weird - better support from the developer. Now, with the latest 1.2 update that went live last night I’d like to say it once again: Reeder is the best RSS app for iPhone.

Here’s why.

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“One thing that’s cool about Tweetie 2 is the fresh paradigm to refreshing the contents of a table view. Up until now we had been looking for space to mount a reload button on, sometimes having to resort to adding an extra tool bar for just one view so that you can have enough space. Now if you have a tableview that it sorted reverse chronologically, then you have a natural urge to make new items appear at the top by pulling down the table with extra force.

Loren recognized this need and innovated the Pull-To-Reload paradigm. If you want to refresh a tableview in Tweetie 2 then you simply pull down the table far enough for an additional cell to appear at the top with the instruction “Pull down to refresh”. If you do, then at a certain point the arrow rotates and the text changes to “Release to refresh”. All accompanied by two distinct wooshing sounds and a pop once the reloading action has ceased. The Intuitiveness of this paradigm is so compelling in fact that people who use Tweetie 2 start to try to refresh ALL tableviews like this.”

When someone innovates people start copying. Or just taking inspiration, they say. But when an innovation becomes a standard, are we sure it’s good at all? Where’s the difference between an innovation that gets copied for good and something that gets stolen for the trend’s sake?

The AppStore will tell us.

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“According to several researches, the iPhone is the most used mobile to navigate in the Internet. With almost 50% of smartphone web traffic in U.S. and over 30% worldwide, clients are now aware to have their own web page running on iPhone browser. You have be to prepared if requested to create an iPhone web page.

There are many companies offering that kind of mobile services, like MOBIFY and iPhoneMicrosites, but it’s not to difficult to create your own web site running on iPhone browser. It is as easy as making it to run in desktop browsers.”

Awesome tips from Eugenio Grigolon, I think I might use them to develop a mobile version of MacStories.

It happens almost everyday to me: I have the fridge full of many different food but I just don’t know what to cook for lunch. Should I cook some pasta with those beans or just a quick salad? Fortunately, my girlfriens has always some great ideas, but now I can say that there’s an app for that. Yes, Cookmate, which was finally accepted by Apple yesterday, lets you easily decide what to cook - with style.

And we also have a bunch of promo codes to give away.

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Paul Westerberg, lead singer of The Replacements, used to sing “And everybody wants to be special here..They call your name out loud and clear.Here comes a regular, am I the only one here today?” in that mid-80s song, Here Comes a Regular. I believe this song pretty much describes the situation of to-do and notes taking applications available in the App Store: everybody wants to be special, yet a very few developers clearly admit that they have just “regular” apps. I mean, there are kinda 2000 notes / todo apps out there, and everybody says their app is the “most complete manager whatever bla bla bla”.

Sure.

But this is a different story. I had to write this review many months ago, but for one reason or another I never found the time to sit down and write it. I’m talking about AwesomeNote, of the most popular productivity apps of the App Store, which has been updated to 2.5 version,update that truly makes it the best GTD and note taking application ever made for the iPhone.

Find out why.

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