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One of the features requested the most on the iPhone is Cut and Paste. I took 3 generations of the iPhone software before Apple finally added this simple feature. I doesn’t work quite the way I thought it would but it does work. To Cut|Copy you double tap the text you want to Cut|Copy. This will bring up the Cut|Copy menu and the highlighting handles. Chances are it has not highlighted all the text you would like. To highlight more text just drag the handles over the text you need. Tap the Cut or Copy command once the text has been selected to move the text into a temporary buffer. |
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To Paste is just as simple. Once the text has been moved to a buffer you can navigate to the location you want to paste. Double tap and selected Paste. You will also notice when you double tap an area with no text you get the option to Select All. Use this feature to select all available text. |
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June 12, 2009
iPhone Quick Tip: Cut and Paste
June 9, 2009
iPhone Quick Tip: Screen Shot
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So you want to capture the screen. On a PC it is super simple. You just press the Print Screen button how can you do it on the iPhone? It also is super simple. Press the "Home" button and tap the "Top" button. |
August 15, 2007
Apple the Microsoft of the 21st Century.
The guys over at Profit42 have posted instructions for installing OSX 10.5 (Leopard) on non-apple hardware. They claim it is for informational use only and of course they do not tell you where you can download that needed files.
This brings up an interesting question. When will hardware vendors take action and claim anti-competitive behavior. When Microsoft decided to include Internet Explorer with their operating system there was an outrage from the geek community. Law suits were filed and the Department of Justice took action. Now that the shoe is on the other foot where is the action? Apple does everything it can to lock you into their products. If you want to use an iPod you have to use iTunes. If you want to use OX legally you have to use an Apple computer.
These allegations are nothing new. People have been complaining about Apple’s business practices for years. But much like the Microsoft case some thing has changed. Microsoft claimed that Internet Explorer was part of the operating system and could not be separated. It wasn’t until someone demonstrated that it was possible to remove it from Windows 95 that Microsoft’s case started to crumble. Much like the situation with Microsoft “hackers” have demonstrated that OSX can run on non-apple hardware. There are even reports of uses running it on AMD processors.
I don’t understand why there is such hypocrisy when it comes to Apple. Let me know what you think.
