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    iPhone Copy/Paste Service Pastebud Delivers Copied Text to Random Strangers

    Hands On: Pastebud Copy and Paste Trick For iPhone's Safari and Mail

    iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
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    Image of bandit bandit
    12/14/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy/Paste Service Pastebud Delivers Copied Text to Random Strangers
    Pathetic that this problem even needs such a work around. Apple, I give you until the end of my 2-year contract (June) to fix this and to fix the lack of MMS. This situation is indefensible.
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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    12/15/08

    @bandit: They could easily integrate MMS and email a lot more effectively than they do now. Then again, so could AT&T if they wanted to. There are lots of ways to tackle that problem. But, that's another solution for another day.
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    12/13/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy/Paste Service Pastebud Delivers Copied Text to Random Strangers
    I guess it really is that hard to put cut-and-paste on an iPhone.
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    Image of Faslane66 Faslane66
    12/13/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy/Paste Service Pastebud Delivers Copied Text to Random Strangers
    Does the copy/paste have to go through a server or anything to happen? Seems like too many steps. We need it native in the iPhone OS itself!!!
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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    12/15/08

    @Faslane66: This goes through a server, so that the developer can try to get $5. Either that or the developer hasn't examined the possibility of using a local database for use as a clipboard. (which of course negates the ability to charge $5.) Or, for the paranoid, he wants to collect what you're copying.


    I'll probably make a local only version when I return from vacation. This really is somewhat of a trivial webapp to write.

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    12/13/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy/Paste Service Pastebud Delivers Copied Text to Random Strangers
    yet another reason why apple should come out with their own copy & paste system.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/13/08

    @VoidingWarranties:
    How about the fact that the new touch Blackberry is advertising it as a prime feature?
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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    12/12/08

    In reply to Hands On: Pastebud Copy and Paste Trick For iPhone's Safari and Mail
    "For things like this, being able to access Safari's URL bar would be nice, since natively, you can only export your current URL via Mail."


    Um, that sounds like a two line javascript fix.


    $5 is a bit too much. I'll have too look at how poor this implementation is. It doesn't seem particularly novel. Certainly useful at times, but this is something that can easily be cobbled together by someone with a little bit of know-how in mere minutes.

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    Image of Sons of Norway Sons of Norway
    12/12/08

    In reply to Hands On: Pastebud Copy and Paste Trick For iPhone's Safari and Mail
    Just silly and no ability to send and recieve pictures is even worse. A toy.
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    12/12/08

    @Sons of Norway: You can email photos from within the Photos function. The box-with-arrow icon at the bottom brings up a menu to email the photo.


    Does the iPhone have MMS? No. But I can send photos easily through email.

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    12/12/08

    In reply to Hands On: Pastebud Copy and Paste Trick For iPhone's Safari and Mail
    1) Multiple processes (I need my AIM up 24/8) 2) push notification then 3) copy and paste, please Apple!
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    12/12/08

    @Mona: And if Apple doesn't, what will you do?


    You signed a 2 year contract.

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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    12/12/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: LOL at acting like he doesn't have an option to use his ETF.
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    12/12/08

    @TheSonOfKrypton: That's just throwing good money after bad. Right now, I'm waiting for a rate-hike.


    At some point, every telecom raises rates, creating a materially adverse change to the contract, offering the user an opportunity to opt out. For example, T-Mobile hiked messaging rates 1 week before the iPhone 3G was released. Didn't pay an ETF to get out of my contract.


    ETFs are for suckers.

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    12/12/08

    In reply to Hands On: Pastebud Copy and Paste Trick For iPhone's Safari and Mail
    I don't understand. What is the technical roadblock for having copy/paste?
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    12/12/08

    @jdbaile3: But how easy would it be to simply create an "Access" panel in the settings where you could apply the copy/paste abilities to 3rd party applications. By default it would be turned off, if you thought you'd use it, you could turn it on.


    VOILA, PROBLEM SOLVED.


    Goddammit, Apple. God dammit.

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    Image of madog madog
    12/11/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
    Half of you babies wouldn't even use cut and paste if it was available, and if it was such a life or death feature then you shouldn't have an iPhone to begin with. For those people the iPhone was made for (they didn't have exchange support at the beginning for a reason) the iPhone is a huge upgrade even without "basic" features many other "smart" phones and blackberries have. If it was such, then again, you shouldn't have "downgraded" to the iPhone nor should you expect anything from any company just because youre used to it. Apples products aren't for everyone and they don't want to, or plan to, appease everyones needs because their products aren't for everyone.


    If you absolutely need copy and paste, then the solution is simple: get a different phone. If you bought one with the assumption that it would, then you are a fool and have no one to blame but yourself and not a company that you think should cater to your every desire.


    Also, if it took a few people to create a somewhat halfassed workaround for this procedure then maybe maybe it's not as easy of a feature to add. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a way to do it but not do it well enough that apple has adopted it's typical "all or nothing" approach.

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    Image of DontFeedTheTrolls DontFeedTheTrolls
    12/11/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
    This reminds me of my days on WebTV where small things that computer users take for granted are such big deals. Some were also solved by web services (ie, ftp & source viewing).
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    Image of twoeightnine twoeightnine
    12/11/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
    You know what's really pissing me off right now. AT&T's viewmymessage.com is producing an error right now. I haven't been able to login in over 3 hours and I have a picture waiting for me from a female.
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    12/11/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
    OMG! Cut and paste on the iphone....


    So that explains the unusually warm December day we had yesterday. Only something this massive could have affected the environment like that...

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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    12/11/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
    This is actually quite easy to do.
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    Image of FuzzysFriedChicken FuzzysFriedChicken
    12/11/08

    In reply to iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
    Any chance Apple blocks this with a software update? Then says some BS like Podcaster..
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    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    12/11/08

    @FuzzysFriedChicken: No. This is completely independent from Apple. It's a web app.
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