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Elements 1.1: New UI and Improved Usability

Elements is the best Dropbox-powered text editor currently available in the App Store, and the latest 1.1 update, which was approved earlier today, brings many improvements and fixes users have been asking for since the first release of the app.

A new UI, if you were not a fan of the previous “marble-like” one, with subtle navigation bars and backgrounds. Elements now comes with full-text search for your documents stored in Dropbox, so you’ll be able to either enter a title or some text and start searching. You can also rename and delete files, sort them by modified date or title.

Last, lots of fixes and “under the hood” improvements. Elements is still available at $4.99 in the App Store, and the 1.1 version is more recommended than ever. Check out the full press release and screenshots below. Read more

The New Yorker iPad App Launches

The New Yorker, an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast, was released today for iPad. Read the editors’ note about the app.

What’s cool: A video with Jason Schwartzman (directed by Roman Coppola) demonstrating the app, and the use of the Digital Magazine Solution from Adobe. What’s not cool - $5 an issue; a printed subscription is way cheaper. Demo video after the break. Read more

Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences→

Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences

Gourmet Live is something new, and interesting, and I’m excited that Gourmet Live is doing so well — as I write this, it’s the #1 iPad Lifestyle app in the store, and just below the Top 10 for free apps overall. But I’m far more proud of the ideas that inform and inspire it, because while the app is just in its very first version, the ideas are deep enough to support Gourmet Live evolving into something truly fantastic. So I thought I’d offer a little peek behind the scenes, because I think it represents something new, and it’s gonna take a ton of insight from a bigger community to help it reach its potential.

As John Gruber reminds us, Gourmet is now only an iPad app.

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Jackass Of The Week: Ansa.it→

Jackass Of The Week: Ansa.it

Italian news agency “Ansa” fails at reporting a complaint from the “Osservatorio Antiplagio” against an iPhone app called “What Country” (link) which associates “mafia” to Italy. In a brief paragraph, Ansa doesn’t provide details about the OA complaint and instead states that Apple itself released the app “for iphone, ipod and ipad”. Google translation here.

This is journalism. [via Mauro Marchesi]

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