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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)
This application has a built-in sharing feature to get your documents onto/off of your iPhone. Using the sharing feature requires you to download some additional free software, which currently runs on Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. A Windows version of the server software for your computer is in the works.

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).


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