Filed under: Hardware, Portables, iPhone, Apple History
While everyone waits for Apple to implement copy and paste on the iPhone (or hacks their own), Newton users have been enjoying it for 15 years.
Here’s a great video of the just how Apple pulled it off on a previous touch device. Clicking and dragging selects the text, [...]

Filed under: Accessories, Hacks, iPhone
Since the iPhone’s introduction, people have been using the built-in camera for more than quick snapshots. Some have taken macro shots, used it as a webcam or even created high art (OK, so that last one was a bug).
Another popular practice is to use it to generate to-do lists and [...]

Filed under: Cool tools, Hacks, Mods, iPhone

Like most phone cameras, the iPhone’s lens is focused for the most general possible use, i.e. nearly at infinity. TUAW reader Daniel Forsythe modded his iPhone to focus a bit closer up so he could use it to read bar codes that he shoots from magazines and equipment labels.
The [...]