Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, iPhone
Copy and paste comes to the iPhone, unofficially
One of the biggest complaints about the iPhone (something other mobile users cite to prove the superiority of their own operating systems) is the lack of copy and paste. Well, there's now a workaround available, and it's not from Apple.
Pastebud shows off one possible method of implementing copy and paste in the iPhone environment. It uses a combination of bookmarklets and email to copy the text you want from Mail or Safari into Pastebud so you can then paste it somewhere else.
The cool thing about Pastebud is that it doesn't require an app download or a jailbreak. Since it works through email over the network, security is obviously a concern for the developers. They're addressing it by adding SSL and destroy-on-paste, but I don't really have a problem using it for public stuff like mobile blog posts.
I'm not sure how Apple will eventually implement copy and paste, but Pastebud is a good demonstration of one way they could go about it.
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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
