OpenClip.org Offers Copy and Paste for iPhone Across Apps
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OpenClip.org Offers Copy and Paste for iPhone Across Apps Wednesday August 20, 2008 12:25 AM EST; Category: iPhone Written by Arnold Kim Rating (25 Positives; 2 Negatives) [ 27 comments ] [ digg ]
[Video] OpenClip.org Offers Up System Wide iPhone Copy-and-Paste
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OpenClip.org is offering up system wide copy-and-paste for iPhone developers that will allow them to implement the functionality within their applications. This functionality has been long demanded by the community, with Apple brushing it off as a “low-priority.”
Copy-and-paste has been a long time missing feature from Apple’s iPhone. MagicPad was an application developed by Proximi Inc, which allowed iPhone users to utilize copy-and-paste functionality. Downside? You could only use it within their application. So, you couldn’t copy something from the mail app and insert it into notes ...
Hey Kids, Let’s Implement Cut-and-Paste on the iPhone!
Technologizer —
Some of us just sit around tsk-tsking at Apple for its failure to get around to giving iPhones the ability to cut and paste text between applications. Proximi, the company behind the MagicPad rich text editor for the iPhone, has taken matters into its own hands. They’re spearheading OpenClip, an initiative to add iPhone ...
Copy-&-Paste comes to the iPhone (almost)
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Cut and paste is coming to the iPhone - but not from Apple. Seems developers over at the Open Clip project have been scratching their heads to figure out how to bring this most-requested feature to the device. Watch the video below then we’ll give you the skinny after the jump.
Cut and Paste for iPhone from Cali Lewis on Vimeo.
As you’ll have seen, Open Clip’s solution is simple, workable and supported: essentially it saves copy you select within an area of the iPhone’s memory which can ...
Copy and Paste is Here Via Open Source Project
iSmashPhone —
Cut and Paste for iPhone from Cali Lewis on Vimeo.
Copy and Paste is an open source project supported through OpenClip.org
From the OpenClip website: "OpenClip is a non-profit, open-source, community-effort project, which promotes a framework for the iPhone that allows users to copy / paste between participating applications." Which application will support OpenClip?
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OpenClip to add app-to-app iPhone copy-and=paste
MacNN | The Macintosh News Network —
[image] A developer believes he has created a way for copy and paste functions to work on the iPhone without violating Apple's SDK agreement. Zac White has started a non-profit, open-source project named OpenClip , from which developers can borrow framework for their own apps. Programs with the technology should not only be able to copy and paste internally, but between each other; this works through saving selections to a shared space on an iPhone. All applications are able to access this space, and there is no need for processes to be running in the background. The key to making OpenClip successful is claimed to be adoption, as only ...
OpenClip Could Bring Missing Copy and Paste Feature across Apps to iPhone
iPhone Hacks —
We have been waiting for Apple to introduce the Copy and Paste feature which has been surprisingly missing ever since the launch of the first generation iPhone. A student developer, Zac White, is trying to change this by unveiling a standard called open-source solution: OpenClip for other iPhone application developers to implement in their apps with the aim to bring the Copy and Paste Feature across iPhone applications. ...
iPhone Software 2.1 to stifle open source copy-and-paste effort
AppleInsider —
By Katie Marsal Published: 12:00 PM EST An open source project aimed at bringing universal copy-and-paste support to Apple's iPhone has hit a major roadblock due to Apple-imposed changes in the next version of iPhone software, according to the group's organizers. The initiative, dubbed OpenClip , was conceived by student developer Zac White earlier this month after an Apple executive remarked that copy-and-paste functionality on the iPhone remains a low priority . Millions of iPhone users worldwide don't agree with that stance, however, and often single out a lack of the feature as one of the handset's most glaring omissions. ...
