Apple Rolls Out 3.2 SDK Beta 4 [UPDATING]

Apple has updated the 3.2 SDK to the beta 4 version. Available here.

Expect updates about it soon in this post.

UPDATE: We’ve got an email from a developer who’s already testing the new beta. Seems like the Camera tab is no longer there in Photos.app. I think we now have a pretty clear confirmation about the lack of camera in the iPad.

UPDATE 2. The Camera tab hasn’t completely disappeared, it’s there when you connect an external memory with photos.

UPDATE 3: The Add Bookmark button works fine now:

Scrup, Free and Open Source Alternative to Tinygrab and Droplr

Sharing picture across the internet could be a real problem sometimes. Not because there’s a lack of tools to do it, no - that is the real problem: there are too many apps that enable you to take a screenshot and upload it somewhere, and people don’t know anymore which app to use. We reviewed apps such as Tinygrab and Droplr before, but the one we’re talking about today is quite awesome and surely different from those ones.

Scrup by Rasmus Andersson (designer at Spotify) is simple and open source utility that, once installed and running on your Mac, can upload screenshots to your own webserver and automatically paste the url into the clipboard for easy sharing. You just have to upload a .php file to your server, insert some credentials in the Preferences of the app and you’ll be all set. Scrup runs in the menubar, it shows nice thumbnail previews of your “scrups” together with date and time.

It works just as good as many other paid and famous apps. Scrup is free and available over at GitHub’s official project page here. Also, be sure to check out Django Scrup, a django-based web receiver for Scrup that forwards the screenshots to Amazon S3.

Being Flash Free

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Interesting post over at Cocoia’s blog. It’s true, uninstalling flash precludes you to a lot of content on the current web - so you keep it installed on your computer.

And that’s exactly Adobe’s strongest point in why you shouldn’t uninstall Flash.

Ballmer Praises Apple’s AppStore, “A Very Nice Job”

Seems like the days of the cold war between Microsoft and Apple have come to an end. Or at least, that’s what we should assume reading this article from The Seattle Times which reports that Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, called out the great work Apple has done so far with the App Store during a speeck at the University of Washington’s computer-science building.

Could this be a sign of Apple and Microsoft finalizing the details about Bing coming to the iPhone as default’s search engine? Or is Ballmer just getting older and putting the old contrasts away

I bet on Bing.

Put Core Location to use with NetworkLocation

One feature that people are often unaware of in their Macs is something called Core Location. Core Location is what automatically sets the time zones on your Mac for you when traveling around the world by looking for nearby WiFi hotspots and gathering local intel. In conjunction with Google Maps and NetworkLocation, you can establish rules that aid in automatically performing tasks when you reach your daily destinations.

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Taptu, Search by Touch

Mobile browsers are usually of one breed on the iPhone. All browsers normally have an address bar, a search bar, and perhaps tabs. But asides from accessing search engines, none of them make looking for information too convenient. Taptu Search makes finding information easy because of interactive contextual touch elements.

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Bills 1.1 Hits the App Store, Brings Stats and Fixes

Bills, the great financial utility from Powerybase we reviewed here, has been updated to the 1.1 version which brings many requested features. First, the stats and totals section summarizes bills by date range, currency and categories. Also, the autopay can now be turned off for repeating bills and there’s the possibility to increase the pre-alert range to 30 days. Various fixes include UI and currency bugs.

Go download.