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Screenshotter Lets You Find and Organize Screenshots on iOS

I’ve written about the problem with organizing screenshots in the iOS Camera Roll before, as it’s one of the long-standing limitations/design decisions of iOS that I find most antiquated and counter-intuitive.

From my iOS 8 Wishes article:

Give screenshots their own album. Years ago, the consensus used to be that only geeks took screenshots of their devices, but the rising trend of people sharing screenshots of message conversations and Instagram pages now says otherwise. For this reason, I find it surprising that Apple still insists on grouping photos and screenshots together – they’re separate media types and there should be an option to exclude screenshots from the main view and iCloud backups.

Screenshotter is a free iPhone app developed by the Cluster team that’s been released today and that shows a glimpse of a good idea that I hope Apple will offer as a built-in feature in iOS 8.

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Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

Comprehensive, nicely illustrated collection of OS X keyboard shortcuts by Matt Gemmell:

I recently wrote an article about being productive on a small screen, which mentioned my belief that the most effective route to productivity on a computer is learning the available keyboard shortcuts.

In this piece, I’d like to share some of the keyboard shortcuts and related functionality that I use every day on the Mac.

And if you also like to learn keyboard shortcuts for your iPad, don’t forget that iOS 7 supports them in both Apple and third-party apps.

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Boosting WebKit JavaScript Performance

Peter Bright, writing for Ars Technica about the new FTL technology in WebKit:

The LLVM-based fourth tier is called FTL, for Fourth Tier LLVM (and, of
course, faster than light). It shares some portions with the third stage,
since the third stage already does important work for handling JavaScript’s
dynamic nature but has a different code generating portion.

The result is a healthy performance boost. FTL produces code that is more than
40 times faster than the interpreter, with benchmarks taking about a third
less time to run than the old three-tier system.

And from Filip Pizlo’s detailed blog post at Surfin’ Safari:

Rather than continue replicating decades of compiler know-how, we instead
investigated unifying WebKit’s compiler infrastructure with LLVM – an existing
low-level compiler infrastructure. As of r167958, this project is no longer
an investigation. I’m happy to report that our LLVM-based just-in-time (JIT)
compiler, dubbed the FTL – short for Fourth Tier LLVM – has been enabled by
default on the Mac and iOS ports.

Truly fascinating work that we’ll likely see in a future version of Safari. Currently, FTL can be tested in the WebKit nightly builds.

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Bentley Creates New Ad Using iPhone 5s, iPad Air

Bentley’s new ad (via Jim Dalrymple) has been shot on an iPhone 5s in New York City and edited in a Bentley Mulsanne using an iPad Air with an Apple wireless keyboard.

It’s a nice promo video – if anything, it shows a wide array of accessories and apps used for the task (like Apple’s crew), and it confirms that iOS needs more keyboard shortcuts. People in the video are constantly switching between the hardware keyboard and the screen, which is uncomfortable – it’d be nice to have improvements here with iOS 8.

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Apple Updates iTunes Connect App for iOS 7

Following OS X, iTunes, and Podcasts for iOS, Apple released a long overdue update to the iTunes Connect app today, bringing a new iOS 7 design and wider support for media sold on the iTunes Store.

If you’re a developer or content creator, you can now enjoy a redesigned app (nothing special, but nice icon) and view stats for music, movies, and TV shows available on iTunes.

iTunes Connect 3.0 is available on the App Store.

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Podcasts for iOS Updated with Siri Integration, Improved Show Notes Support, and More

Following changes to podcast listening in iTunes 11.2, Apple updated its dedicated app for iOS devices, Podcasts, to version 2.1, available now on the App Store.

Podcasts 2.1 comes with the same browsing improvements seen in the latest iTunes – you can browse by All Unplayed episodes, scroll a podcast’s feed, and manage settings for automatic download of episodes and deletion after playback. Settings and Share menus are available in a podcast’s individual screen, where tabs for Unplayed and Feed allow you to browse episodes you haven’t listened to as well as all episodes from a show’s archive. Read more