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Copy & Paste on your iPhone with iClipper

Thursday, January 29, 2009
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iClipper is something like copy & paste for the iPhone. iClipper lives in your Safari bookmarks menu and lets you copy text from a web page and paste it into an e-mail.

How to install iClipper

iClipper is installed by adding it to the bookmarks menu of Safari on the computer with which you syn your iPhone. Add iClipper to your bookmarks menu, sync your iPhone, and iClipper appears in your iPhone’s bookmarks.

How to use iClipper

Find a block of text on a web page you wish to send to someone else. Click your iClipper bookmark, then tap the text block you wish to copy. A new e-mail will pop up — the subject will be the title of the web page, and the e-mail body will contain the text that you copied.

iClipper is a hack, and as such it is not perfect. iClipper guesses at which text you wish to copy – it grabs entire paragraphs, list items, quotations, etc… and places them into your e-mail message. However “fragile” it may be (as RWW puts it), it is still better than nothing.

Link via “iClipper: iPhone Copy and Paste Without Jailbreaking” by Read Write Web. Photo by velorowdy used under a Creative Commons License.

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