New Features For iPhone OS 3.0

Rachel Segal — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:49:06 +0000

If you have been searching for an excuse to update your iPhone (or finally make the leap and purchase one of your very own for the first time), the announcement from Apple yesterday on the new features and goodies it will include might just push you over the edge. The focus appears to be cleaning up a lot of the nagging little things that a user would anticipate being easy from the start.

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Systemwide search- now you can find what you’re looking for from within one search interface, instead of having to detemine what you’re searching for first.

Copy and paste for text, photos, and SMS- why you weren’t able to take a selection of text and move it around across applications before…is just crazy. Finally you can grab a text message and paste it into an email, or grab someone’s name and use it to name a properly name a photo. As just two scenarios where this is more than just a ‘nice to have’.

MMS – I have never been a big user of multimedia messages, but now you can send and recieve them on your iPhone.

Improved GPS -probably the biggest complaint I heard from all my iPhone loving friends, is that the GPS has been subpar from the start. This sounds like a big improvement all around.

Micropayments – while I understand why this would be useful, I do appreciate that right now I purchase an app…and then it’s done. Well, now app developers have the option of requiring you to subscribe instead of paying one fee up front.

New Version of Windows Live Writer

Jason Bean — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:05:04 +0000

I wrote recently about blogging from within the newest version of Microsoft Word 2007. In that post I had mentioned that the functionality of blogging in Word 2007 was very similar to what had been developed in the Windows Live Writer application. Not surprisingly, it would make sense to test functionality in a small, free program distributed via the web and get user feedback from that.

There’s now a new version of Windows Live Writer being developed and the Inside Microsoft blog got their hands on a copy of it and played with it a bit.

Verdict: They’ve gone and taken what might be the best blog editing tool out there and made it better. It looks better, has a few good new features, works better connecting to your blog (no more Temporary Post For Style Detection), has an even easier and better organized interface. Great work!

Strong words. Can’t wait to get my hands on it myself. I was very pleased with the original version, so can’t wait to put some miles on the new one. Probably most exciting is easy insertion of tables. I know CSS is all the rage right now, but sometimes, you just need to present some good ol’ tabular data quickly.

The Inside Microsoft blog has lots more details about the app along with numerous, large screen shots of the functionality.

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