As already evident in my last post, apps that support the new OS 3.0 copy&paste feature are becoming popular (and may, in fact, soon be more abundant than fart engines and tip calculators). One of the recently published apps is CopySend [Appstore link]. However, it does not maintain a growing list of clips on the iPhone that could later be used, as ClipShare and Stickum (see below) do, but is limited to a direct exchange with the desktop computer. A small server program can be downloaded for free from the author's website, and runs in the background. A small symbol in the menu bar indicated whether it is paired (green light) or not. If paired, text and images that can be copied to the clipboard on either device can be pasted on the other device. The app has three buttons only: one for a transfer from the iPhone to the desktop, one for the reverse exchange, and one with a special and sometimes quite useful function: it allows you to take a snapshot with the iPhone camera, which is then sent to the clipboard on the desktop (in fact the photo of the server icon in the menubar in this blog post was made like that).
CopySend is nice, fast, stable and useful, but it does not replace either Stickum or CopySend. A combination of these features together with a hierarchical clip management would be ideal.
I am sure we just have to wait a while...
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