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ActionMenu Extends Your iPhone Copy & Paste Menu

Before OS 3.0 we were unable to copy & paste stuff on our iPhones: sure, there were apps such as Clippy available in Cydia which allowed us to use some sort of copy and paste features, but it wasn’t polished, refined and stable like the solution Apple came out with. And it seems like after the release of iPhone OS 3.0 people stopped asking about new stuff, everyone seems to be satisfied now. Fortunately, there are many people who noticed that the “action menu” (the one you activate everytime you copy / paste / select some text) could be improved a lot.

Fortunately, there’s a guy like Ryan Petrich who developed an amazing tweak called Action Menu.

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Exclusive Sneak Peek: Thoughts for Mac

If you’re a writer, you should know how much is important to keep your brain organized and fresh: sometimes too much information can kill your skills, or just make you forget things. You must find a way to keep everything at the right place, sorted out and ready to be picked up when you need it. And if you’re a Mac user too you know you need a good app to do this.

I had the chance to test Thoughts, an upcoming app for Mac OS X developed by green & slimy, and I think it could change the way you organize your stuff, with style. Here’s an exclusive preview.

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Without Its Own “Tablet” Yet, Is Apple Missing the Boat?

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“Steve Jobs has already gone on record to say he doesn’t believe that single-purpose dedicated devices will be a big market. “But I think the general-purpose devices will win the day. Because I think people just probably aren’t willing to pay for a dedicated device,” he told The New York Times.

So what is the iPod touch? Just an MP3 and video player? No way. It’s also a gaming unit that runs a full universe of apps, including email and Web browsing. One day it’ll eventually get a camera like its smaller iPod nano sibling. That’s right: general purpose. It’s safe to say that any new Apple device with a larger form factor than the iPod touch, regardless of its name, will be designed to play games, movies, television shows, surf the Web, run apps, and maybe even navigate the world.

An iTablet would be so much more than an e-reader.”

Finally, someone got the point. Stop talking about the iTablet as the Kindle killer, or whatever Apple needs to re-invent the press industry. It’s a tablet computer and you know, sometimes you just need a new hardware to create a new software. That’s what Apple is doing.

Is it that hard to understand?

Keep Your Code Together with Snippets. Reviewed.

So you’re a designer or a developer and you daily need to deal with code and text snippets: that’s very likely to happen. From CSS to HTML, from Javascript to Ruby, you just can’t remember every piece of code everyday: you need a good solution to store and easily retrieve them. Now, if you’re reading this blog I assume you have a Mac running Leopard / Snow Leopard.

Meet Snippets.

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Twidget Brings Twitter to Your iPhone LockScreen

You probably already know how many Twitter clients are available in the AppStore: a lot. Choosing a Twitter application is just your personal preference now, depending on the features you need and how much you’d like to pay to tweet from your iPhone. But you know, Twitter clients could be a lot better if only Apple removes all the SDK limitations developers have to fight with.

Fortunately, there’s Cydia, the amazing alternative store created by Saurik which is the main reason why people jailbreak their phones. I was browsing Cydia last week and I stumbled upon a great application, which has changed the way I read my timeline updates: Twidget.

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Snappy and SnapTap: Two Great Apps to Improve Your iPhone Camera

I’ve told you last week how much I love the Cydia Store: it’s a great place to discover and download apps Apple will never approve in the AppStore. You know, SDK violations. And I mean applications like Orbit, Overboard and Multifl0w, biteSms, the reasons why many people decide to jailbreak their phones.

Today I’d like to talk about two new apps from the Cydia Store which will dramatically improve the way you use the iPhone camera.

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Favorite Tweets of the Week Nov 22-Nov 28, 2009

I usually tweet a lot of stuff: apps tutorials, news, videos, reviews, hacks and so much more. Everything that’s Apple-related and it’s interesting, it’s worth a tweet.

To keep up to date with all these links you can follow me on Twitter, but in case you missed here’s a small compilation of the best tweets of the past week.

You can find me on Twitter as @storiesofmac.

Enjoy!

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Editing Video On Your iPhone? There’s Even An App For That.

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“ReelDirector can’t do everything, mainly due to limits imposed by Apple’s iPhone SDK. The biggest among them is the inability to use your iPod music for background sound. The best workaround so far is to record your music through the iPhone’s microphone.

While ReelDirector is probably best compared to iMovie rather than Final Cut Pro, the ability to edit quick videos and share them with loved ones without ever touching a computer is still quite remarkable.”


Quite remarkable, but still limited. Seriously Apple, what’s the problem with background music?