The buttons that use to appear above the numbers are gone in this new version. Instead, hold the 123 button to bring up an option menu.

Selecting COPY activated the magnify-and-drag option.

I like this much better.

MC

bump on above

the fetaure has vanished, but i can still select text D:

And maybe you should define “a lot of things,” because after using both, I can describe Clippy as requiring you to ‘do a lot of things’. Here’s how: 1) This is the Clippy process of using the clipboard: tap “123,” tap “stack,” select the item I want pasted, close the popup, tap “123″ to get back to keyboard. This is the hClipboard process: Tap the globe, tap the item, tap the globe again. That’s 5 steps vs. 3. For someone who uses the clipboard a lot (emails, usernames, sms templates, etc.), it makes a big difference.

2) If I wanted to select a few paragraphs with Clippy, I would have to drag across many lines of text, and at the end make sure i stopped at the very right spot. It also doesn’t always want to select, it takes a few tries sometimes. Very time consuming. hClipboard can copy several paragraphs in 3 taps, and doesn’t require great accuracy (only have to tap beginning and end of paragraph.

3) Selecting specific text within Safari text fields (not address bar/search bar) can’t be done with Clippy. As I type this I’m trying to select one word/sentence from what I’m typing in this reply box but I can’t. Try it below, you won’t be able to. This applies to bookmarklet solutions as well, because bookmarklets turn the text into a safari input field, so you have to copy the whole thing. hClipboard can select specific items in text fields.

There are a few more gripes I have with Clippy, but that’s beside the point. Clippy to me makes you ‘do more things’ and is not better, in my opinion. Although the one nice thing I like about Clippy(the only reason I keep it) is because I can delete a whole paragraph quickly after selecting it.

This is my take on the 2 solutions, and I’m hoping the issues can be fixed at one point since it’s still in beta.

I’ve had the same problem… until I realized that you have to select, then tap the “123″ key. Voilá! the magic keys appear.

@Jeremy – Clippy got an update over the night and it now allows you to select multiple lines at a time AND it now works across all apps that use the keyboard (until yesterday, it was limited to mail, sms, and safari)

I do read TUAW but have to confess I don’t follow the jailbreak scene and didn’t read that article. But if it’s your image, it’s your image and we’ll be happy to shout you out. Apologies for the confusion. Sometimes the internet spreads the story faster than the credit

We’re pretty serious about crediting any and all tips we get (we even credit tips we get AFTER we’ve written posts ’cause we really want people to keep sending them in.

That said, I’ve checked and re-checked, and don’t see a tip from you. It’s possible it got lost somewhere on the intertubes, so if you’d consider writing us at news@tipb.com and letting us know how you sent it, hopefully if we can try and track it down.

Apple shouldn’t allow any styling on apps.

“Mr. Jobs… build back this wall!”