Elements App Gets Updated With iCloud Support

Second Gear has released a big update to Elements which brings iCloud support and numerous other improvements.

Elements is a dedicated Markdown and Dropbox powered text editor for iOS. Elements allows you to view, edit and share plain text documents on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. All of your data is stored in a folder on your personal Dropbox account so that it's accessible from any device you have.

Whether you're a freelance writer wanting to write your next article, a student with a book report due or professional on-the-go who needs access to their notes wherever they are, Elements can work for you.


Features:
- Create, view and edit text files (.txt) on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
- Create, view, edit and preview Markdown files on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
- Cloud based: Elements stores all its data in an /Elements subfolder on your personal Dropbox account so you can access it via your iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC
- Autosaving
- Offline support: upload your changes to Dropbox next time you're connected
- Publishing: Publish your finished works to Facebook or Tumblr (More services coming soon!)
- Export: Export your files as HTML or PDF files to Dropbox, Evernote, iTunes or Email
- Full text search of your Elements files
- Word counts, line counts, character count
- A Scratchpad to flesh out ideas or store random bits of information
- Email files as an attachments, in-line or as rendered HTML
- Printing support
- Sort file listings by name or modified date
- TextExpander touch support
- Free customer support via email

What's New In This Version:
* [NEW] Added support for syncing scratchpad using iCloud.
* [NEW] Added support for syncing app settings using iCloud.
* [NEW] Added support for syncing appearance settings using iCloud.
* [NEW] Added support for the native UIRe/ference stuff for dictionary lookups.
* [NEW] Added support for copying HTML to clipboard from the Markdown preview.
* [CHANGE] Removed Terminology support.
* [CHANGE] Elements now requires iOS 5.
* [CHANGE] Removed 'Our Other Apps'.
* [CHANGE] Migrated the metadata cache from the /Documents directory to Library/Caches for faster iCloud backups.
* [CHANGE] Updated to latest version of MarkdownKit.
* [CHANGE] Updated Facebook logo.
* [CHANGE] Added some additional logging to help ferret out some Cocoa Error 4 stuff.
* [FIX] Fixed a rotation issue in the new account view controller.
* [FIX] Fixed a typo in Welcome.txt.
* [FIX] No longer hardcoding the localPath for each file in the database.
* [FIX] Added background image to the search bar so it doesn't look terrible.
* [FIX] Resolved bug where bottom of a long file would be clipped by the toolbar in certain instances.
* [FIX] Restored ability to submit crash reports.
* [FIX] Fixed several iOS 5 related rendering issues.
* [FIX] Adjusted some logging info to not be so chatty in the device console.
* [FIX] Fixed an issue where the margins selector wasn't adjustable in some instances on the iPad.
* [FIX] Miscellaneous bug fixes and memory usage improvements.

You can purchase Elements from the App Store for $4.99.

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