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Re-inventing the Clipboard: Clips

Clips

The clipboard is one of those features of any computer that we take for granted.  You use it every day, likely more than once.  The ⌘-C and ⌘-V are now among the most used key combinations on all computers world wide.  These are quite amazing statistics, but beg one interesting question:

Why hasn’t the clipboard ever been developed?  For example, you can only copy one thing to the clipboard, you can’t save things that you copy to it, and there is no safeguard, meaning that if you copy something else, your previous copied item is lost.

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Win RipIt

RipIt

Last week I reviewed a copy of RipIt, a truly brilliant DVD ripping utility for Mac.  Now, thanks to The Little App Factory, we have one copy to giveaway.

So, how do you enter?  It’s easy.  Firstly (if you haven’t already) you will need to follow us on twitter, @appflowblog.  Then using my handy link tweet about the contest, this will enter you fair-and-square for the contest.

As a recent addition you can now become a fan of us on facebook as well.  If you do this we may even accidentally favour you in the contest.

The giveaway will end in on sunday, at roughly 18:00 hours.  Good luck!

Speed Download Winners

Speed Download Winners!

Thank you to everyone who entered the Speed Download Giveaway over the past week.  It’s been our most successful giveaway yet in all two months that we’ve been running.  Well done us, and thank you to all!

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank @macappstorm and @webappstorm for their support, and of course Yazsoft for providing the licence in the first place!

On to the serious bit: the winner!  This week’s winner is:

@didats (check your e-mail!)

Once again, a big thank you to all who entered and to everyone for your continued support of AppFlow.co.uk.  Stand-by for another giveaway coming up next week, and a whole load of other great posts!

Streamlining twitter with Echofon

Echofon

When it comes to twitter clients, there is a lot of choice out there.  Already on AppFlow, we’ve reviewed Tweetie and TweetDeck, both with their own way of providing you with quick, streamlined access to your twitter feeds.

Today, however, it’s the turn of a twitter client that has managed to convert me in a matter of hours.  There is a Mac, iPhone and firefox version of this app.  It’s neat, quick, and really easy to use.  Allow me to introduce: Echofon!

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Rip It Open with Rip It

RipIt

RipIt is a very nice application when it comes to ripping your DVD’s to store on your computer for playback.  RipIt is simple, and perfectly functional for what it is designed for, and also comes with a surprising amount of options for just $19.95.

For such as small app it is very configurable giving you a choice in end formats for the DVD to be ripped to, influencing on the final file size.

Ripping a DVD

The first thing you will need to decide is what format you want it in.  You can download the optional ‘Beta’ component in order for RipIt to compress your DVD into and MP4 file suitable for iTunes or and iPod, or you can use the default .dvdmedia format that will open in the native Mac application “DVD Player” when opened.  Each of these formats has it’s own pro’s and con’s.

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