Facebook tests new feature on iOS to help you find events in your area

Facebook knows everything about you so it might as well make use of that. A new feature being tested out on iOS shows you a revamped Events page on the app. It’ll let you browse events in your area that you might be interested in. Or you can also search by date to see if there’s anything happening in the coming weekend.

Source: Lifehacker

Copied clipboard manager helps ease your iOS copy and paste woes

Clipboard manager Copied is designed to make copy and paste and easy affair on your iOS device. It keeps everything you’ve copied, allows you to edit clippings, share links and text easily, and has gesture support and batch feature. If you want to use it in conjunction with your desktop, you need to make a US$1.99 in-app purchase and you can do just that. The app itself though is free for you to use.

Source: Lifehacker | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Microsoft Outlook on iOS gets 3D Touch support

It’s now easier for iOS users to send emails, add events to your calendar, or head straight to your calendar itself. A new update for Microsoft Outlook on Apple’s mobile platform introduces 3D Touch support. Now, iPhones 6s and iPhone 6s Plus users just need to press on the home button to be able to do the aforementioned actions. However, that seems to be the extent of the feature. There doesn’t seem to be any other quick actions you can do from the home screen. Hopefully, that changes in the future.

Also in the update, you can print any message or conversation thread right from your phone. Just look for the option in the top right corner of the app. But please, if this is something you plan on using, think if it’s actually necessary to print the email thread that you want to.

Source: Microsoft News | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Apple's Craig Federighi dishes on Swift in open source

Apple's SVP for Software Engineering Craig Federighi - Photo By Gadjo C. Sevilla

Apple's Senior Vice President for Software Engineering Craig Federighi was a guest on John Gruber's The Talk Show podcast recently and gave some insights on Swift in open source. Swift is Apple's unified programming language which it hopes developers will shift to from Objective C. Apple released Swift into open source recently hoping to make it widely available to all developers. 

Federighi said that Swift is the most popular language on Github, which is a widely used repository for open source programming and resources.  Expected to be the major language for the next 20 years and the lynchpin of Apple's various OS ecosystems, Swift is now also available for Linux where it can be used on servers. 

 "I think our team is a really seasoned team in the world of developing languages and we know that a language really can’t be developed in a vacuum," Federighi noted. "The first step is you have to crystallize your basic ideas and have a starting point. But we knew we needed feedback then to work toward the language that ultimately Swift has become and will become in the future." For more information on Swift, check this link.

Source: Daring Fireball