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By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Dec 11, 2008 a 10:00 am
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The previous attempt to make an end run around the iPhone's lack of cut/copy and paste involved shared code called OpenClip and relied on a loophole Apple closed in iPhone OS 2.1

This latest tilt at the text editing windmill targets only 2 apps instead:

Pastebud—as the service is called—works using two bookmarks in Safari. One prepares and loads the page you are viewing, ready to select text at the touch of a finger. From there, you can copy any text you want and create a new mail message with that text in it. In addition to that, you will be able to copy and paste in the text field of a different web page.

Check out the full story and video over at Gizmodo. And then let us know if you think this is enough -- for now -- to satisfy your cut/copy and paste cravings?

Rene Ritchie

Editor-in-Chief of iMore, co-host of Iterate, Debug, ZEN and TECH, MacBreak Weekly. Cook, grappler, photon wrangler. Follow him on Twitter, App.net, Google+.

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There are 8 comments. Add yours.

b says:

looks ok, definitely better than iCopy http://www.biocow.com/iCopy/

Steve says:

Wow! You mean I can finally send my friends and colleagues text from web pages? They'll be thrilled! :roll:

MPKU says:

Oh no, not this again. Bring on the "simple update" cry babies. ;)

Steve says:

Enter MMS gripes here: ___________________ :lol:

MPKU says:

But all I want is landscape email....... *sniffle, sniffle... :)

Pinny says:

I will not use it with that annoying thank you pop up.

Ernie says:

Can one copy & paste from web to e-mail and text mags and vise versa?