Have you ever thought that the iPhone could become a wind music instrument? Apparently it is possible with the great application designed by Smule called Ocarina. Check this out on the App Store, it’s already a massive success, and it’s not finished, and finally it is cheap.

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With the iPhone v2.1 software out of the door, Apple is hard at work on v2.2. From this first glimpse it looks like Apple, now that the major bugs have been squashed, is adding some new features.

The screenshot, unearthed by iPhone Atlas, shows a new Safari interface. Above you see a shot from my iPod Touch (left) next to a picture of the new v2.2 Safari. In the new browser, Google gets its own search bar (instead of popping up when you hit the regular URL bar) and the reload button has been moved the address bar, a purely aesthetic change which helps the text-entry areas to look bigger.

Of course, there’s still no mention of copy and paste, a seemingly ridiculous omission from such a powerful device. But I have a theory: Apple won’t ever put it in, at least not in the form we currently know. The iPhone model is quite different from that of a proper computer. In a Mac or PC, you use the operating system to act on files, be they pictures, e-mails or text documents.

The iPhone works more like iTunes, where each application takes care of its own files and what you can do with them. Thus, in Safari, you can choose to send a picture to the Photo application, whence it is squirreled away into a filesystem only accessible through the same Photo application, or through a “media browser” (which is used to pick the desktop background, for example).

It’s possible that Apple is taking so long to implement copy and paste not because it is difficult, but because Apple is reinventing it. Imagine a system-wide menu added to all applications which, instead of shuffling items off to a clipboard, lists all the places you can send that file (or text string). This would be like the existing “Open with” option available in the Mac’s right-click menu — each application effectively reports to the OS exactly what kind of files it can handle and the OS remembers this. Thus a picture could be sent to not only the Photo app, but to any other photo program. Text could be sent directly to any open dialog box in, say, Safari.

Technically, this still uses a “clipboard” stack to store items temporarily, but the user experience changes to fit the iPhone’s one-open-app-at-a-time paradigm.

Of course, this is all speculation, but there has to be a reason why we can’t shift information around the iPhone more easily. Maybe this is it.

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Flip Clock is a stylish flip style clock iPhone Application for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Bring it on a trip instead of a separate clock, or stand it up beside your bed or on your desk at work. It provides a stylish, readable clock without taking up all the space a real clock would.

Supported effects include:

- Realistic number flip animation
- 24 hour mode
- Stop phone from sleeping
- Hide status bar