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Video shows another way Apple could implement text editing on iPad
As noticed by iDownloadBlog, YouTube user danielchasehooper has come up with an idea that would simplify text editing on the iPad by making it even easier to select text. Instead of tap, hold and zoom to select text, you could use a finger swipe to move the cursor and hold shift to select the tex...
Alfred Extension Lets You Update A Text File Notepad In The Background
This is how we did todo lists in the good old days Another day, another cool thing you can do with Alfred. This time it’s updating a text file of your choice, without having to leave Alfred’s friendly text input window. It’s done with an extension called note2file. When you ins...
Pop: An iOS Writing App That's Nearly Too Minimal [Review]
Pop creates a dead simple writing environment on the iPhone and iPad. Minimalism is a fascinating thing. Our world is getting increasingly loud and busy, yet many are starting to want more minimal and distraction-free experiences. Apps specifically are another way that the minimalism trend can be...
TextWrangler: Still Free, Still Amazing, Still Amazingly Free [Review]
Full screen mode and more... Yesterday we highlighted the release of TextWrangler 4, the wonderful free text editor from Bare Bones Software. Here’s a closer look at the new stuff you’ll find in this update. Many of the new features first appeared in TextWrangler’s big brother ...
Drafts Is Your iPhone's New Inbox [Review]
Drafts will become your default way to capture text When I first heard about Drafts, I thought “What’s the point?” After all, who needs an app in which to draft messages before sending them off to Twitter, or mailing them, or otherwise disseminating them to the world at large? M...
Voice Dictation Works Well On Older iPhones [Review]
Record, transcribe, send text on your older iPhone Voice Dication, or Voice Dictation – Voice To SMS, Email, Facebook, Twitter And Other Apps to give it its full name, is a voice control app from Europe, designed to offer something vaguely Siri-like to those of us still stuck in the Dark Ag...
Write: Lightweight Word-Processing Done Right
The word-processing app market is flooded with alternatives, most of them already very well established like the popular options of Pages or Microsoft Office’s Word. There’s even a whole other market for super simple or “distraction-free” word processors, which we’ve...
New iPad vs iPad 2: Retina display tests
The new iPad sports a 9.7-inch, 2048×1536, 264ppi Retina display, which is twice as dense as the iPad 2‘s equal sized, 1024×768, 132ppi screen but packs four (4) times as many pixels into the same space. That’s exactly what it sounds like — the new iPad has 4 pixels i...
PopClip Puts Text Menus Right Where You Need Them [50 Mac Essentials #47]
PopClip brings cute iOS-style select-and-click text tools to your Mac. It’s great. Just select some text – just select, no clicking required – and familiar cut, copy and paste commands appear in little boxes above the text, just like they do on your iOS device. Not just thos...
DashExpander vs. xType: Which Free Snippet Expander is Better?
As a writer, one utility that I simply can’t live without is some sort of text expansion app. These tools are simply invaluable to my workflow and save me hours of typing every month. I personally am a huge fan of TextExpander. It’s my go to text expansion app and it simply blows away...
