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Color Snatcher: Simple Safari Extension To Grab Colors Off Webpages

This one’s a Safari extension designers and developers alike are going to like a lot: with just two clicks, Color Snatcher for Safari allows you to grab colors off any webpage and copy it to your clipboard from a dialogue box that will appear on screen.

The extension, due to Apple’s restrictions, can’t automatically copy a color’s HEX or RGB code to the clipboard – you’ll have to manually copy it from a secondary tiny window. The extension, however, delivers on what the developer promised: a simple tool to grab pixel colors. That’s it.

Color Snatcher is, of course, free and the developer is already working on a better way to copy color codes. Very nice. Go download it.

MacJournal for the iPad

It used to hold true that I’d occasionally coordinate my nefarious plans for world domination inside of the iPad’s very own Notes application. I don’t like using Simplenote (as many will tell me to do) for such radical means, which is its own whitespace dedicated for short bursts of random prose. The only solace I could find was with MacJournal, though for a while, it only existed on OS X. And MacJournal is appealing not as a blogging solution, but as a database solution for maintaing multiple journals with optional encryption and password protection. When I can avoid it, I don’t like maintaining multiple files in the Finder.

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Andrew Hyde’s iPad Experiment Gone Wrong→

Andrew Hyde’s iPad Experiment Gone Wrong

I like writing, and the touch interface just wasn’t cutting it, so I purchased the bluetooth keyboard for when I wanted to write posts. It was pretty brilliant as a setup. On my last flight I was forced to check my bag, and in the rough handling the keyboard was turned on, keys were pressed, the iPad took this as incorrect password guesses and it locked.

I had all sorts of screenshots and apps to show off, those are all gone, because once your iPad gets in this mode, the only way to get it out is to restore it to the computer it was last synced with. I, not owning that computer, had no choice but to delete everything.

Delete everything.

I can imagine the frustration – more evidence that the iPad still can’t live on its own. [via BrooksReview]

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BMW Seriously Committed To iOS Integration

Looks like BMW is getting serious about iOS devices integration with their new car models. Engadget first detailed the system BMW was building to integrate iPads in their cars back in September; like it or not (I personally think it’s a little bit overkill) BMW thinks that’s how you’re supposed to enjoy using the iPad in the back seat.

A few days ago BMW launched an ad campaign to prove that what they have is the best way to use the iPad (and iPhone) on board – there’s no room for homemade stands and ugly wooden solutions. That’s really what the video is all about, check it out below.

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Greenpois0n Source Code Released→

Greenpois0n Source Code Released

The Chronic Dev-Team has kept their promise, and just made the source code for most of the limera1n-based jailbreaking tool available to the public. It has been released under the GNU license, so hopeful programmers are free to modify and distribute it as they please.

“Most of the limera1n-based tool” means the core components of Greenpois0n. The code is available here.

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What It’s Like to Work at Apple→

What It’s Like to Work at Apple

At Apple, it’s never, “How long did you work for the company?” but rather, “How many times did you work at Apple?” The Apple attitude seems to infect everyone who works closely with the technology – and, even after leaving the company, we all say that we still “bleed six colors,” in reference to the original six-color Apple logo.

Interesting post, perfect for some late night Instapaper.

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Buddies For iPad Provides A Better Way To Check On Your Facebook Contacts

At this point, I guess you’ve figured out there’s no official Facebook iPad app nor does Zuckerberg plan to tell his team to start developing one. Or perhaps we just have to wait a little bit more, as Facebook is currently focused on mobile devices and the iPad isn’t exactly a mobile device. No matter how you look at it, there is no Facebook for iPad and we have to rely on 3rd party offers when it comes to status updates and photo galleries on world’s most crowded social network running on the iPad.

Up until now, Friendly for Facebook has been the most successful unofficial app for iPad to land in the App Store, and sales of the app sky-rocketed with the recent release of a major update. A new 3rd party Facebook app was released yesterday, it’s called Buddies and simplifies the way you can check on your Facebook contacts on the iPad. All wrapped up in an interesting native interface with noteworthy features and curious navigation schemes. Let’s take a look at it. Read more

So That’s an iPhone Inside A Keyboard

Ever wanted to be able to have your iPhone sitting next to your keyboard? I mean, not really just next to your keyboard – docked into your keyboard. No? Come on. Think about the possibilities: you could easily jump from keyboard keys to the iPhone’s multitouch gestures, flick through your lolcat photo collection while doing some serious emacs text editing or constantly pinch and zoom on that small screen when you’re feeling bored. Still thinking you don’t want one?

Well in all seriousness, I’m not sure what this Omnio WOWKeys keyboard for iPhone (3GS and 4) is supposed to do either. Engadget reports:

What you’re looking at is a Made for iPhone keyboard called WOWKeys from Omnio. The $100 USB keyboard / iPhone (3GS or 4) dock is Mac or PC compatible (note the cohabitation of the Windows flag and Command key in the prototype images after the break) featuring 15 hotkeys designed for iPhone use.

And they said iOS devices didn’t come with physical keyboards.

Itsy Twitter Client for Mac Adds Custom Themes, Gesture Navigation

We have covered Itsy, a minimal Twitter client for Mac by mowglii, quite a few times in the past. What’s great about Itsy is that it’s simple and focused, taking the clutter way to let you concentrate on what really matters: the tweets.

The old 1.x version was falling under the weight of Twitter incompatibilities and different APIs – it needed a major update.

Last week developer mowglii released the long-awaited 2.0 version of the app, which adds support for custom themes (you can select them in the Preferences), tweet deletion, support for three-finger swipe gesture to navigate (Snow Leopard-only) and lots of bug fixes and overall improvements. Itsy was indeed very popular thanks to its community of designers and users who came up with stunning mods of the original interface. Now theming is officially supported in the app. Great news.

Itsy is free. You should give it a try.