Microsoft Releases Its First-ever IPhone Application

Microsoft's first-ever iPhone application is a slick photo viewer with a browsing capability that handles a large number of photos on a mobile device screen.

Microsoft said the aim of the mobile application is to let users view even wall-sized displays on a mobile device, regardless of the amount of bandwidth on the network. But the viewer could also be used to browse e-mail or other content. "If you can think of a data type, this can be applied to it," said Microsoft developer Ben Vanik, in a short video.

Seadragon mobile can be used in conjunction with Microsoft's Photosynth application, which takes batches of digital photos and stitches them together. In order to create a Deep Zoom image, Microsoft offers a tool that will prepare the photo or document.

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iPhone Gets Copy And Paste Solution

iPhone Gets Copy And Paste Solution, World Implodes

Source: Electric Pig

Obviously the fabled iPhone copy and paste function is not courtesy of Apple, for whom it is deemed far down the list of priorities with MMS and not crashing every three minutes (damn your eyes, firmware 2.0!). It is rather the product of a lone programmer with the skills to provide an open source solution, allowing other developers to seamlessly integrate it into their own products.

Open Clip grabs any text marked to copy, places it gingerly into the iPhone’s storage compartment which then acts as a shared space which can be accessed by any other Open Clip compatible software. Simple really!

It is currently supported by a couple of programs including blogging software Wordpress and Twitellator, with more to follow as the source code is released into the public domain. We for one welcome it, anything which makes the iPhone Wordpress app remotely useful is a boon.

Omio updates from the bathtub coming soon!

This video shows Open Clip doing the impossible, courtesy of GeekBrief.tv.

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