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Seems that a very large number of things us iPhone owners take for granted isn’t getting enough spotlight but a good portion of what is included in the iPhone isn’t being used because nobody knows about it. So, in order to rectify that, I’m hoping this tip will help out a few more people, because it’s certainly helps me out. What tip is it? Well, how about being able to view the full content of text input areas.

I actually came upon this little tip by accident and it happened when I was noticing a bit of a bug with how the text editing magnifying glass works, which we’ll leave for another discussion. Basically, I was trying to edit the text I had entered in the obscenely small text input area on the mobile Twitter site. Read the rest of this entry »

So, the latest tip on how to quickly type periods or other punctuation from David Pogue has been making the rounds. It’s a neat little trick and definitely a time saver for a lot of people. To be honest though, I haven’t really used it that much, I’ve discovered a little something that doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of press.

What some people may not realize is that once you’re finished typing your punctuation, when you hit the space bar the keyboard automatically changes back to the “ABC” layout. To me this seems like a faster way of typing, at least for how I use the keyboard. It’s pretty intuative really, way to go Apple.

Of course, for Pogue’s example of typing a P.O. Box address in the U.S.A. his tip will prove to work a lot better than this one. For everyday writing, in notes, emails, or SMS the space bar comes after basically all punctuation so it’s just a matter of preference really.

I’m a little late to the party but I’ve decided to go ahead and get naked for the day. Of course, by naked I’m referring to the style and design of this website, not in the physical sense — I’ll save that for another time.

If you’re curious to know more about the motivation behind this whole “naked” thing, check out Dustin Diaz’s site. It was an idea he came up with last year as a way to promote good, clean, semantic markup and web standards.

Ok, so I’ve been thinking of a lot of things as of late, some hypothetical some actual. If you absolutely had to choose, where would you prefer to be (and I’m not just talking about during SXSW for those going)?
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Just because I’m getting annoyed that nobody seems to really be reading the Adobe blog post I’m going to lay out here for you all, CS3 will not be released on March 27th.

The post, if you read the editor’s note, says the product is only being announced on March 27th. The actual product will be released sometime “later in Spring 2007”. So, for all those designers out there, keep on wishing because it ain’t happening this month, much to my own disappointment.

Update: As many may know and some do not, Adobe has since announced the CS3 suite and it is currently available for pre-purchase on their website. The people I know that have already placed their order have been given ship dates at the end of April—with obvious discrepancies based on shipping destination.