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First Look: TextGuru for iPhone
TextGuru is a new iPhone application that promising, useful -- and also really powerful! The application allows you to create and edit a ton of document types. TextGuru also includes the following features that makes it worth every penny you pay for the application:- Cut/Copy/Paste
- Find and replace text
- Autosaves your documents
- Search document collection in entirety
- Web previews for web documents
- Pastebin support (with Pastie and Sprunge)
- Email entire documents
- Display documents with different iPhone fonts (22 available)
- Ability to view binary documents in either Hex or ASCII representations (all I can say about this is: 61 77 65 73 6f 6d 65)
TextGuru also allows you to use Cut/Copy/Paste throughout the application. To use this feature, just double-tap, then hold and drag your finger across the text you wish to highlight. The application places brackets [ ] around the text that's highlighted. You can then press the Cut/Copy/Paste buttons along the toolbar.
The application is fairly solid, but I have experienced a couple of crashes after editing a document and pressing the "Done" button in firmware 2.1. Be sure to take a look at our gallery of screenshots. TextGuru is available from the iTunes AppStore for $4.99 (US).
Gallery: First Look: TextGuru for iPhone
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
john said 12:16PM on 9-15-2008
Cut 'n Paste? Hey, that might catch on!
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James D said 3:09PM on 9-15-2008
Text Guru is very cool imo. A new update is coming by the end of the week with a fix for the 2.1 update issues and new features like reading MS Word docs.
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Dave said 3:17PM on 9-15-2008
Thanks to a TUAW tip last week, I was able to pick this program up for only 99 cents (looks like it's back to its regular price of $4.99 now).
I'm really looking forward to the new update due out shortly. Like James said, it supposedly fixes 2.1 crashes, and adds a plethora of new features including landscape text editing. See their web site for details:
http://brancipater.com/blog/
The one thing it's missing is WebDAV support. Adding that would put this application over the top.
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Jon said 3:54PM on 9-15-2008
Bought it. Thanks!
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Luigi193 said 4:02PM on 9-15-2008
Just incase anyone is wondering and lazy...
61 77 65 73 6f 6d 65 == awesome.
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Fritz Laurel said 4:54PM on 9-16-2008
Is there an iPhone text editor that does FTP?
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