It’s been a long day. I am now looking through my emails and RSS feeds wonding if I would take the time to mention SwirlyMMS leaked for 2.0+ via iSpazio on Cydia or if to talk about the rumors of AT&T Working on Voip and TV service for iPhone customers in the US.

No - I am going to post about this great new app I just found on Cydia, it’s called CopiercIN. It is True Copy and Paste Text between Notes, SMS and Email on your iPhone - For FREE!!

You can import sms, notes, emails and txt documents for now, and paste then together, and then export the pasted/typed text to an email, sms or note all within CopiercIN. The developer has stated that he has plans to release this as open source and expand CopiercIN’s features to Safari and other apps. But this is a wonderful solution to a big problem. Now only if there was a way for this to work with AppStore and Third Party Dev Apps like Wordpress, MagicPad and TextGuru.

Screenshots below and video after in a couple mins:

CopiercIN - Copy, Paste Notes, SMS, Email on your iPhone FRE from MyTriniPhone on Vimeo.

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TextGuru is a new iPhone application that seeming to be pretty useful. Create and edit a wide variety of document types (including HTML). TextGuru includes the following features:

• Cut/Copy/Paste
• Find and replace text
• Autosaves your documents
• Search document collection in entirety
• Web previews for web documents
• Pastebin support (with Pastie and Sprunge)
• Email entire documents
• Display documents with different iPhone fonts (22 available)
• Ability to view binary documents in either Hex or ASCII representations (all I can say about this is: 61 77 65 73 6f 6d 65)

This application has a built-in sharing feature to get your documents onto/off of your iPhone. Using the sharing feature requires you to download some additional free software, which currently runs on Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. A Windows version of the server software for your computer is in the works.

TextGuru also allows you to use Cut/Copy/Paste throughout the application. To use this feature, just double-tap, then hold and drag your finger across the text you wish to highlight. The application places brackets [ ] around the text that’s highlighted. You can then press the Cut/Copy/Paste buttons along the toolbar. TextGuru is available from the iTunes AppStore for $4.99 (US).

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OpenClip is/was an open framework for implementing the Cocoa NSPasteboard functionality to the iPhone. OpenClip was an effort to work around the limitations of OS X on the iPhone by allowing apps to read/write between each other. Apple is disabling that feature in future firmwares.

Herr Gruber pointed out that OpenClip used a loophole that allowed applications to read the sandboxes of other apps, allowing them to share data. However this seems to be a violation of the Terms of Use of Apples SDK. The upcoming firmware 2.1 will not allow that.

Apps that use OpenClip will no longer be able to copy and paste between applications. However, applications can still utilize a persistent way to store data inside the application, meaning that copy and paste within the app will still work fine. And on top of that, apps that utilize only one form (either copy or paste) can disable interface elements when Apple axes OpenClip.

OpenClip was never supposed to be a longterm solution, but rather an example of how easy it could be done. A sort of “In your face” move to Apple. Let’s hope that Apple realizes how easy it was to implement and use and will make this framework available to developers and native apps in the iPhone OS.

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OpenClip for the iPhone comes form Zack White who has created an Open Source Framework that allows developers to copy and paste HTML and Plain Text between participating apps. This is done by storing the data in a common writable partition on the iPhone which does not violate the Apple SDK and should abide by Apples rules. Unfortunately Apples Safari and Mail are not likely to sign up for this. For more info check out the OpenClip.org website and watch the awesome demo video.

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I have recently been playing around with MagicPad from Proximi for the iPhone (avalable via the AppStore) and I am wondering why Apple couldn’t, didn’t and hasn’t done this from the beginning or yet. Proximi show how easy this is to use and how simple it would be to implement throughout the system. Unfortunately the cut, copy and paste and other text formatting options only work in MagicPad.

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Thanks to Brian, Co-Founder of Proximi, Developers of MagicPad for sending this in via email

I posted last week about the great new Cut, Copy and Paste app that hopefully will be coming soon to and iPhone/Touch near you. I had found some screen shots and lots of mention of it being submitted to the AppStore for review, but never really got a name to go with the face. Well the app is called MagicPad and it looks awesome.

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Engadget is reporting that Apple has started seeding 2.1 Beta 1, Build 5F90 Firmware to beta testers and developers and they are already reporting some great improvements over 2. I had already mentioned that 2.0.1 was being circulated internally by Apple and some of it’s trusted beta testers, but 2.0.1 is mainly bug fixes to 2.0 long list of gremlins.

2.1 on the other hand seems to be chock full of surprises. Having a look at the WebKit framework there are commands for “plugins,” “copy,” “paste,” “cut,” and some others. It is still unclear if this is simply code left over from the Apples Desktop OS X, but it is highly unlikely.

Maybe Apple saw the work of the Developer that submitted the Copy and Paste App and decided to buy/license it from them. Rumor has it they did the same thing with the Handwriting regocnition software that was submitted to th AppStore that made it’s way into Japanese and Chinese iPhone Firmwares.

Courtesy Engadget

This is a screen shot of an app that was submitted to the AppStore (by a developer that I cant find the name of) that shows their App that has cut, copy and paste features.

Apple has always said that they were thinking of adding Copy and Paste, but they had bigger things to deal with. Hopefully someone else has done all the hard work for them and all they need to do is give the App permissions and tweak it so that it works through out the operating system and between Apps. Because without a real clipboard that allows you to copy and paste text/urls/email addresses between safari and mail or a third party aapp like Wordpress, this new feature will be worthless for the msot part.

Update thanks to MacRumors:

… Apple has included new Core Location features that might suggest that turn-by-turn GPS could become a reality. Core Location can reportedly track your direction and the speed at which you are traveling.

Along with the new firmware, Apple has also seeded a new version of the iPhone SDK but the new SDK can not be used to submit Apps to the current App Store. There have been earlier reports that Firmware 2.0.1 had been spotted in the wild, but a 2.1 upgrade would presumably introduce more than just bug fixes.

Update: Besides Core Location speed and heading additions, Apple has also included early Push Notifications APIs that allows applications to process notifications in the background. Apple promised this feature by September.

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A third-party Software Developer has submitted an app to the AppStore that promises to finally deliver Copy & Paste functionality to iPhone users via the AppStore on the iPhone and iPod touch, here are some screen shots thanks to AppleiPhoneApps.com

The app is a rich-text editor that allows users to select text by highlighting with a double-tap and drag motion. From there, users can not only Copy & Paste, but change the text in a variety of ways, including:

• 5 different font sizes
• 6 different font choices
• 8 different color choices
• bold, italics, underline, and strike-through

I am hoping that this app will allow the copied text to be used in different applications. I am going to be watching this very closely as this is one of the most requested features that Apple has not forgotten, but rather had more important things to deal with (wtf).

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