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Clippy brings copy/paste to jailbroken iPhones

by Megan Lavey (RSS feed) on Jan 20th, 2009

Those with jailbroken iPhones who use the Cydia package manager discovered a new add-on in the past day or so -- Clippy, from iSpazio, which introduces a method for copy and paste to the iPhone.

According to users, the add-on inserts two buttons into the system keyboard -- one for copying and another for pasting. Those who have tried it out say that it only accepts user-entered text and copies over one line at a time, which can get cumbersome.

Sebastien over at the iPhone Download Blog gives a detailed overview of how the application works. "After installing the application, type any text you want and simply hit the "123″ button on your keyboard to show the copy/paste buttons. Tap "copy" and start selecting the text you want to copy. Tap "copy" again to end the selection. Then tap "paste" to paste this text where you want it to be." This implementation isn't up to Apple's standards for grace and ease, but it seems workable.

My iPhone isn't jailbroken, so I haven't had the chance to try out Clippy. If you've downloaded and had a chance to try out the app, please let us know your impression in the comments.

Thanks to all who submitted this!

Tags: addon, Clippy, copypaste, cydia, iPhone, iSpazio, jailbreak

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, Mods, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Video: Working iControlPad adds buttons to the iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jan 19th, 2009


It's pretty wild to have seen the iControlPad go from idea to concept to production, and here's the final step straight from Engadget: video of the device working just as planned. ZodTTD is playing quake4iphone on it, and while the naysayers will probably still have some nays to say, I'm convinced. If Apple is as serious as it seems about turning the iPhone and the iPod touch into serious gaming devices, it would be worth selling something like this as an official accessory. It's fine and good to say that the multitouch screen works even for traditional controls, but so far, we haven't seen a developer that's been able to put "buttons" on the screen and still be able to make worthwhile use of screen space.

As Engadget says, there's still no price or release date on the iControlPad, and given that it's working on jailbroken games right now, there's no sign yet that we'll have any official App Store support. But it's an idea for which the time, in my humble opinion, has come.

Tags: accessory, addon, apple, devices, engadget, games, gaming, icontrolpad, iphone, ipod-touch, quake4iphone, video, youtube, zodttd

Filed under: iLife, Software, Cool tools, Productivity

Keyword Manager 1.1 adds major keyword management features, more

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jan 28th, 2007



Keyword Manager from Bullstorm scored a license purchase from yours truly the day we found it, and the feature-packed iPhoto keyword plugin recently had an unassuming but handy upgrade to v1.1. Clicking on the "What's New?" heading at Bullstorm's site reveals a strong list of new features, including:
  • Address Book auto-completion
  • Share keywords between photo libraries
  • Alphabetic sorting of keyword lists
  • Preferences windows
  • Built-in software update
If you've been looking for an easier-to-use and more powerful way to wrangle your iPhoto library, I highly recommend giving Keyword Manager's full-featured demo a try. One of its most useful features, besides highly streamlining the tagging/keyword assigning process, is its ability to filter keywords in a search. This is something iPhoto is sorely lacking, but Keyword Manager makes it easy to pick keywords to both search for and exclude. This feature alone is easily worth a good portion of the plugin's $19 USD (€19 in Sweden and EU) for a single license.

Tags: add on, AddOn, iphoto, keyword, keyword manager, KeywordManager, keywords, plugin, tag, tagging, tags

Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Productivity, Internet Tools

Forget Me Not - Safari session saving

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Dec 29th, 2006



Forget Me Not 3.0 is a good example of the 3rd party plug-in and add-on support for Safari that is slowly but surely growing. FMN is a basic a session saver plug-in for Safari that can reload any tabs that were open the last time you quit Safari. It isn't quite as powerful as, say, Tab Mix Plus for Firefox, but it does a good job of bringing this increasingly popular feature to Apple's darling browser.

Forget Me Not can be had from Jim Fowler's site.

[via Daring Fireball]

Tags: add-on, addon, forget me not, ForgetMeNot, plug-in, plugin, safari, session, sessions

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Tips and tricks, Internet Tools

Search TUAW from your Firefox toolbar

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Sep 21st, 2006

Reader Paul Stamatiou just earned a special place in our hearts by creating a TUAW search plugin for Firefox. Installation is a snap - just run over to the plugin's home at Mozdevo.org and click on it - and you can satisfy your urge for all things TUAW anytime you want, right from Firefox's search bar.

I'm using the Firefox 2.0 beta 2 for everything these days, and the plugin works just fine for me; I would imagine it works for 1.5.x as well, since that's the *official* release. No matter which version you use though, thanks to Paul, you now have one more tool with which to be no more than one click away from TUAW.

Tags: addon, firefox, plugin, search, TUAW

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools

Saft v8.3.5 released

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Sep 18th, 2006

Hao Li is at it again with a new version of Saft, quite possibly the Safari plugin that deserves to go the route of CoverFlow. If you aren't familiar with Saft's extensive and constantly evolving feature set, check out our past coverage to get familiar. This latest v8.3.5 update features:
  • New feature: Option to block auto-completion in the location field
  • Improvement: Customizable format of the dated download folder
  • Improvement: Nicer tab thumbnails
This is a free upgrade for registered users and is available from Hao Li's site.

Tags: add-on, addon, browsing, plugin, safari, saft

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools

Groupcal 3: manage your Exchange calendar from iCal

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 28th, 2006

Are you a Mac user living in an Exchange world, forced to trudge through Entourage? (Don't get me wrong: Entourage is fine, but 'trudge' is just a good verb for dramatic effect.) Well trudge no longer with Groupcal 3, an addon for iCal that allows you to access, manage, edit and synchronize your Exchange calendars and tasks. Also on the feature list are: subscribing to coworker's free time, sending/receiving meeting invites, sharing/publishing calendars through .Mac or WebDAV and even syncing with an iPod or Palm through iSync.

Groupcal 3 is a Universal Binary, a demo is available and a single licenses costs $55. As you might expect, multi-license packs are available starting at 5 seats, moving all the way up to 500 and 1000 pack licenses.

[via MacMerc]

Tags: addon, calendars, edit, entourage, events, exchange, ical, manage, outlook, plugin, share, tasks, todos

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools

A collection of all available QuickPicks for Backup 3

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 16th, 2006

Wishingline, a web design studio, has done .Mac members a favor and collected most of the QuickPicks that are available on the web for Apple's Backup 3. There are quite a few QuickPicks out there for everything from ecto to PDF documents, Photo Booth pictures to Shiira bookmarks, OmniOutliner documents and much, much more. Wishingline went so far as to list a number of the QuickPicks individually, or simply offer an encompassing package of everything they could find (scroll down about midway on the page for these goodies).

The QuickPicks package is offered free from Wishingline, but remember: they didn't have anything to do with creating these (as far as I know); they just tracked them down and zipped them. If you want a QuickPick for one app or another, you should probably consult the app's author or check out these resources for creating your own.

[UPDATE: Scott from Wishingline dropped us a comment to let us know that the QuickPicks linked from Wishingline are, in fact, home grown. Thanks for some rockin' QuickPicks Scott!]

Tags: addon, addons, backup, ecto, PDF, Photo Booth, PhotoBooth, plugin, plugins, quickpick, quickpicks, shiira, software, wishingline

Filed under: Audio, Software, Video, Internet Tools

iVideoMail and iVoiceMail plugins for Mail

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 16th, 2006


Here's a novel idea: being able to easily send something besides text and pretty pictures in email. iVideoMail and iVoiceMail are Mail plugins that take the legwork out of recording video and audio clips for easy emailing. They install as preference panes within Mail, and once you customize a message's toolbar to add a button for either plugin (there doesn't seem to be any other way to use them when composing a message), you're ready to start emailing your beautiful mug and American Idol-worthy voice to anyone who can handle it. Just don't blame us if your friends and colleagues begin removing you from their address books.

I only briefly tried out the iVideoMail demo and it works pretty well, although the resulting 6-second 320 x 240 video in MPEG4 was 376 KB, which might be considered a little large by some. By why not judge for yourself? Demos are available via a rather annoying submit-your-email-for-a-customized-download-link process, and a license for either plugin is a mere $10 USD.

[via Hawk Wings' plugin list]

Tags: addon, audio, email, ivideomail, ivoicemail, mail, pane, plugin, preference, video, voice

Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Productivity, Internet Tools

Three-pane Mail.app turns into a plug-in

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jun 2nd, 2006


Well that was quick. First Mail.app received a widescreen, three-pane face-lift, and now it's been morphed into a plug-in. The author provides two different sets of instructions for installing: drag and dropping into your ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/ directory or using a couple of commands in Terminal. Go nuts ladies and gentlmen.

Tags: add-on, addon, Apple, bundle, DLS, hack, Mail, Mail.app, pane, plug in, plug-in, plugin, three, three-pane

Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Hacks, Productivity, Universal Binary

Application Enhancer v2.0 goes Universal, with other enhancements

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on May 31st, 2006

Unsanity has released a Universal Binary version of Application Enhancer, their software preference pane (and set of frameworks) that enables their various handy system hacks and UI additions. Along with Intel Mac compatibility, this update also includes enhancements like:
  • Redesigned the preference pane to be simpler and more accessible.
  • Now follows the precedent set by other Mac OS X services and disables itself if the shift key is held down while booting.
While Application Enhancer and some of their products are Intel-friendly, you should check their full compatibility list for details on exactly which apps have made the leap, as some are in a public beta testing phase.

Application Enhancer is free and available from Unsanity's website.

Tags: add-ons, addon, ape, Application Enhancer, ApplicationEnhancer, enhancement, haxie, haxies, plug-ins, plugins, system, UI

Quicksilver plug-ins for Google Calendar and Gmail

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on May 4th, 2006


While tinkering in Quicksilver's plug-ins panel this morning I came across two new plug-ins that should fit right in with my new Borg Google-infused daily activities: a Gmail Module and a Google Calendar Module. Both are actions that allow you to type in a string of text, then select either of these modules as an action, and off you go.

The Google Calendar module seems to use their Quick Add syntax for adding events. For a quick tutorial on this: invoke Quicksilver and then hit period so you can begin entering plain text. Enter something like "Apple Store Opening Saturday 10 am," then hit tab to move to Quicksilver's second pane to chose an action. If you have the Google Calendar module installed, the action is titled "Google Calendar Event" (using 'gcal' works just fine for me). Hitting enter will send the event, and for bonus points, if you have Growl installed and Quicksilver using it to give notifications, you'll receive a Growl alert upon successful completion.

The Gmail module (pictured) allows you to compose a message (or at least part of one) using the same method as both the Google Calendar and Mail.app compose actions. Once you type some text, tab over to chose the Gmail action, you'll receive a 3rd pane that allows you to specify an Address Book contact to send to. Hitting enter will create a Gmail compose window with all the information you chose from Quicksilver already inserted. Awesome.

Tags: add, addon, addons, Calendar, compose, email, event, events, feature, gCal, gCalendar, Gmail, Google, plug-in, plugin, quick add, QuickAdd, Quicksilver

Filed under: Cool tools, Productivity, Internet Tools

Chax 1.4.1 released

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on May 4th, 2006

One thing I love about Chax, the vital iChat plug-in, is that its developer has been reliably rolling out a good handful of new features and fixes, even with a .0.x update like this one. New features in 1.4.1 include:
  • Growl notifications for when a user comes online, goes offline, goes idle, goes away, and becomes available
  • Options to have the tab window come to the front when receiving a new message
  • Option to disable the close buttons on tabs
  • Option to have the contact lists automatically resize to fit the number of visible contacts
  • Contact list row height will now adjust itself according to the size of a custom font as long as user icons are hidden (the two line view will not resize)
  • Default iChat floating window notifications now work with tabs
  • Clicking on a Growl message notification will bring iChat to the front and select the originating message window
You can check out the full list of new features and bug fixes in Chax's release notes, and grab your own copy from Kent Sutherland's site.

Tags: addon, addons, Chax, features, iChat, plug-in, plugin, tabs

Filed under: Cool tools, Productivity, Internet Tools

Saft 8.3.0

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 24th, 2006

PimpMySafari noticed that Saft, a vital Safari plug-in, has been updated to version 8.3.0. New and updated features include:
  • New feature: AutoComplete always on
  • New feature: Tab thumbnails (like Shiira’s Tab Expose, not Omniweb style)
  • Improvement: Also restore tab history when undoing closing tab
  • Improvement: Undo support for closing other tabs
Saft is available from haoli and sells for $12 for either Panther or Tiger, though the Tiger version is the only one being updated. A demo is available, but if you're already an owner, you can snag the 8.3.0 upgrade from haoli's Saft for Tiger download page.

Tags: addon, autocomplete, extra, features, plug-in, plugin, Safari, Saft, tab, tabs, thumbnails

Filed under: Software, Productivity

Path Finder 4.1 released with Universal Binary, other enhancements

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 10th, 2006


Path Finder, the powerful file browser/manager (pseudo-Finder) from Cocoatech, has been updated to version 4.1. Along with Universal Binary status and the typical round of bug fixes, this update also includes:
  • Improved Go To Folder with autocomplete
  • Smart Folders – Path Finder can now read Finder-created Smart Folders
  • New Size Browser for quickly viewing total file sizes of folders, bundles, etc.
  • Added rotate buttons to the integrated PDF viewer
  • Path Finder can now preview PDF bundles (often found on OS X install disks)
  • Added preview support for Help Viewer bundles
  • Path Finder now displays if an application is PPC, Intel, or Universal Binary in the info panel
  • Path Finder can now previews NEF files
  • Added preliminary “email to” support for Microsoft Entourage and Eudora
  • Updated Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French, and German localizations
Check out Cocoatech's changelog for the full list of improvements and fixes, and scroll to the bottom of Path Finder's product page to download the new version. A 21-day demo is available, while a full license costs $34.95.

Tags: add-on, addon, app, browser, Cocoatech, file, Finder, manager, Path Finder, PathFinder, replacement, software

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