Pastebot ; Command Copy and Paste – Review
App Type: Uncategorized
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By: Tapbots
Version #: 1.1.2
Date Released: 2010-04-02
Developer: Tapbots
Price: 0.00
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The introduction of iPhone os 3.0 brought with it a feature that may not be used everyday for some of us but never the less is a vital feature: copy and paste. We all use this for moving text or pictures from app to app. Apples implimentation of copy and paste is good, but Tapbots has taken this feature and enhanced it; making pastebot one of my must have apps on the iPhone.
Pastebot appears at first to be like the multi-clipboard apps on the old Mac OS offering a holding place for items copied to the clipboard. When you start the app it immediatly captures whatever you have copied and saves it to the app’s clipboard. Pastebot take this further with folders for sorting and organizing clippings. All Clippings can be titled and those titles are searchable within the app. While the clipboard only holds the last 99 items, folders allow you to store as many items as you want nicely organized within the app.
Besides folders Pastebot offers a variety of tools to manipulate both images and text. For text, Pastebot has a large assortment of filters from find and replace to even a translation tool. Pastebot has the ability to encode and decode html tags as well as convert smart quotes to straight quotes and visa versa. Selecting an image and pressing the filter buttons offers five filters: Brightness, Black and White, Invert, Saturation, and Sepia. While these filters are basic, they offer quick and easy effects to add to photos. If you view the image and choose the edit button, Pastebot has the ability to rotate and crop the image as well. I personally find these tools to be the most useful to quickly rotate a screenshot or crop a picture before sending it out.
Finally we come to the coolest part of Pastebot. The app by itself lets you copy an image, save to your library, or send as an email. For text it also lets you search Google with the text.
With a free OS X download from Tapbot’s website, Pastebot gains the ability to send text and images to and from your Mac. When the app is running, and both Mac and iPhone are connected to the same network, anything copied on the Mac is immediately sent to the Pastebot app. This features works great for sending large blocks of text or large collections of images quickly to the iPhone. Pastebot also works the other way with an option to paste to the Mac. With this combination Pastebot can effectively become an interactive multi-clipboard for the Mac as well. I have been using Pastebot for moving screenshots to my Mac without having to open iPhoto and perform a complete sync of the iPhone.
What Pastebot does, it does flawlessly and with an elegant interface. Not everyone will find a place for Pastebot within their work flow, but for those that want a simple tool for organizing images and text on the iPhone with the ability to sync to the Mac, it doesn’t get much better than Pastebot.
Quick Take
Value:High.
Would I Buy Again:Absolutely.
Learning Curve:Easy.
Who Is It For:Those that need to store and manipulate text and images.
What I Like:Great Interface. Flawless Performance.
What I Don't Like:Sync application only for Mac.
Final Statement:Pastebot is a must have utility on the iPhone.
Pastebot is a powerful new clipboard manager that stores text and images copied from your iPhone/iPod Touch. Copy something you want to save, run Pastebot and it automatically gets imported for you to access later.
Organize your clippings in folders and use the built-in search to find what you saved quickly. Run a “Find & Replace” filter on a block of text or convert an image into Black & White. Maybe you just need to crop and rotate an image. This is all possible with Pastebot’s powerful editing and filtering tools. Pastebot contains 14 filters with more on the way.
Send your clippings via email or save your edited images back to your photo library. Copying something back to the clipboard is as easy as tapping it. Pastebot is the ultimate content storage system and hub. Don’t just use Copy & Paste. Command it!
Combine Pastebot with the free Pastebot Sync companion app for your Mac and truly wield the power of copy & paste! With Pastebot Sync, magically push text and images to your phone over wifi by simply copying them. You can even push clippings in Pastebot right to your Mac with the press of a button. Moving text and images to and from your device has never been easier.
*This optional functionality is currently only available on the Mac. It is not needed to use Pastebot.
? Save, organize, and edit text & image clippings with ease.
? Search capabilities and folders for organization.
? Apply text & image filters like “find & replace” on text or convert an image to black & white. 14 filters total with more on the way.
? Create new text clippings within the app.
? Create a new image clipping from your iPhone camera or import from your photo library.
? Useful metadata like image dimensions, character/word count and creation date.
? Copy items back to the iPhone/iPod clipboard with 1 tap.
? Send clippings as emails within the app or save images back to your photo library.
? Push text and images from your Mac to Pastebot instantly over wifi**
? Paste text and images to your Mac from your iPhone or iPod Touch instantly over wifi**
**Requires the free Mac companion app, Pastebot Sync and Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Available at pastebot.com.
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Article By Nathan Kline
Nathan has been an avid Apple user and advocate since the days of the Apple ][. He has always sought to find new ways to make use of technology to assist his daily life. As a paramedic in southern California Nathan brings his familiarity with technology to the field, and at whatsoniphone.com he brings his critical thinking to he analysis of apps and news. You has also written app reviews for the mobile app site Smokinapps.com.
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