It's been quite a few days for Pastie
First it got picked up with a great review from CNET
This morning Kevin Purdy from LifeHacker writes a great mention as well. LifeHacker review
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Screencast of pastie, the iphone productivity app in action.
I'm the author of Pastie.
Want to speed up sending e-mails and SMS messages to people? A new iPhone app called Pastie makes it possible with text presets.
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Favorite Pasties?
I can't talk right now, I'm driving...
What part of "I'm in a meeting don't you understand?"
These are just a few I've heard since I released Pastie a few days ago.
Any favorite pasties? Leave a comment and I'll pick the top few. Winning entries will be featured in an upcoming release (or promotion)
Nice Review of Pastie
Josh Lowensohn of CNET/Webware wrote up a nice overview of Pastie today.
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The tool got in the way of our learning the practice, and started behaviourally skewing our view of scrum (‘The chosen tool becomes a factor of the first order in determining not “only” how Agile (or any other software method) will be practiced, but what mindset will evolve in the course of the rollout’).
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manicwave is live - pastie for the iPhone is out
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Pastie Is Out
My first iPhone application, Pastie, is live in the AppStore.
I've written several iPhone apps over the last year, but all failed to meet my criteria for a releaseable app. Some fell prey to my low boredom threshold, while others couldn't find any elbow room in the already crowded app store.
Pastie is pretty simple, but compelling. How many times a day does someone call you while you're in a meeting? Do you call or text your significant other when you're leaving the office for home? "I'll be home in an hour..."
My killer use case was the question: "What is the dial in number for the conference call?" I must have typed that message (or some badly abbreviated facsimile thereof) several times a week. Doing that in the car can be fatal!
Pastie originally was just going to be a clipboard for often used expressions. Like quick text entry on every phone except the iPhone. The technical limitations of the iPhone prevent anyone (save the jailbreakers) from offering in-app shortcuts. The next best thing it seemed was to have a clipboard that you could select from, and then paste it into either an email or an SMS.
One thing led to another and Pastie now supports email natively and uses the clipboard for SMS. The original use case is still supported.
I submitted the app for approval almost two weeks ago. The benefit of the extended approval cycle is that I'm busy at work on the next major version of Pastie. It will include multiple email recipients, text for both the subject and body of the email and maybe even some cover-flowish goodness to allow you to flick those often used expressions.
Check it out and give me your feedback.
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Dynamic Property Names Because string variables are surrounded by quotation marks when they are substituted into a format string using %@, you cannot use %@ to specify a dynamic property name—as illustrated in the following example.
NSString attributeName = @"firstName"; NSString attributeValue = @"Adam"; NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"%@ like %@", attributeName, attributeValue]; The predicate format string in this case evaluates to "firstName" like "Adam".
If you want to specify a dynamic property name, you use %K in the format string, as shown in the following fragment.
predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"%K like %@", attributeName, attributeValue]; The predicate format string in this case evaluates to firstName like "Adam" (note that there are no quotation marks around firstName).
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