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Is There an iPhone Clipboard App?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:02:30 +0000

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On your computer, you have a virtual place called a clipboard, where you can cut, copy and paste. These features are everywhere, except on your iPhone. There is no cut, copy and paste. What if you want to get a piece of text from your desktop to your iPhone? It’s not easy usually. However, using Clip2Mobile, it becomes simple.

It might occurred to you so many times that, While you are browsing on your computer you may see some information like phone numbers, URLs,e-mails Places..Etc. Would it be nice if you can send them to your phone directly as you see them. Clip2mobile will help you to transfer information clips from PC to your iPhone. Using Clip2Mobile, you can:

Create notes on your desktop and send them to your phone immediately.

Create a contact on yourdesktop and send it to your iPhone contacts.

Launch Google Maps with your specified address from desktop, so that you can use it later.

Make calls instantaneously.

Launch browser with specified address and you can bookmark it on your iPhone.

Search and filter clips.

Drag and drop or copy paste the text from other applications.

Share Clips with your friends.

The iPhone UI is a little unpolished, and not as clean as it could be. For a first version, it’s not half bad. It’s functional, definitely. And better yet, it’s free! I want a bit better UI on both sides of this app. It works, and that’s what matters.

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Have You Used an Internet Clipboard?

Chris Pirillo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:36:06 +0000

Have You Used an Internet Clipboard?

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By now, I’m hoping that you have mastered using cut, copy and paste. Sometimes, it can be a bit tricky to paste something to another computer. What about when it comes to pasting some code, or a script? If you send it by email or IM, it can get all messed up. Thankfully, there are utilities called PasteBins that you can use just for this purpose. Simply paste in your code or script, and pass the link along to whoever may need it. Slexy is one such PasteBin, and it’s really nice.

You may even want to use this for yourself, and not just to paste code to others. You can give it an author name, choose the type of code language (including regular text), and even choose when to expire the page (if ever). If you can think of any type of text file that may need to be shared or edited in some way, you can paste it here. If you select HTML, for example, the site will automatically do syntax highlighting and line numbering for you. This is VERY nice when someone is going to look over your code for you. They’ll be able to easily tell you what line there may be an error on.

Also, this can be nice if you’re working on code or even a registry script for yourself. Let’s say you need syntax highlighting, but you don’t have a tool to do that. Simply paste your code into Slexy, and let it do it for you. You can make this bit private, so that only you can see it while you work on it.

Check out Slexy, you won’t be disappointed.

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Clipboard Freeware

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:27:38 +0000

Clipboard Freeware

Gnomie Mark Donaldson asks:

There is one program I need but can’t find anything like it. I need a SysTray clipboard monitor. It doesn’t need to be a clipboard extender / archiver. All I want it to do is monitor the clipboard and report on the SysTray icon what and how much is in the clipboard. Whenever I copy to the clipboard I want to know whether what I copied is there because sometimes it isn’t. The icon would display T2k for 2kB of text or H43k for 43kB of html or B1.2m for 1.2MB of bit map or J67k for 67 kb of JPEG image, etc. I have searched, but can’t find anything like this.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tool like that? You might consider contacting clipboard software authors – like the people who make the free Yankee Clipper. Personally, I recommend and use Clipboard+ (a utility that comes bundled with ShellToys XP). That Windows still doesn’t come with a way to manage multiple items on a clipboard is beyond me.

Clipboard Freeware