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euphras 2010-02-13, 18:21 #166
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Quote by madra on 2010-02-12, 05:34:
Quote by euphras on 2009-10-26, 21:14:
...We should look for a chess app, that acts like an ICQ or Adium just for online chess gaming. I´m really curious to play against you.  :thumbsup:

i got an email from chess.com this morning announcing their new freebie chess app with, needless to say, 'player vs player over the intarwebs' capabilities.

Unfortunately i don´t own an iPhone/Podtouch or a smartphone... :-(
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Speckledstone 2010-02-13, 19:36 #167
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does what it says on the tin, but i've got to knock a couple of stars off for the ridiculous purchase price

Don't those "physical pantone strips" (for lack of the proper term) cost a fortune themselves?
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euphras 2010-02-13, 19:47 #168
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Quote by madra:
does what it says on the tin, but i've got to knock a couple of stars off for the ridiculous purchase price

Don't those "physical pantone strips" (for lack of the proper term) cost a fortune themselves?

Yep, usually around 70 -100 € in the bay. I wonder how this "software pantone stripes" can be used correctly? Is the iphone screen THAT color consistent?
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madra (Administrator) 2010-07-24, 11:19 #169
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i've been meaning to revive this thread for a while but, unfortunatley, along with my herman blog and my ranting blog, it's turned into one of those things where the longer you leave it, the more catching up you have to do, so you put it off for another while..... and so on.  :hmm:


however, i have been inspired by i5m recommending in this thread that i check out tapbots' other apps [i already had  convertbot and i'd just bought calcbot]

so let's hear it for:

pastebot - clipboard utility

[Image: http://tapbots.com/img/product_promos/pastebot.png]

one of the things that frustrates me no end with iOS, is the fiddlyness involved in copying/pasting.  if you want to copy more than one thing, from one app to another, you have to swing back and forth between the two apps, copying one item at a time and, of course, depending on what you're pasting into in the second app [forum edit fields for example], you often find the first thing you pasted has vanished into the ether by the time you return to paste in the second.

on my laptop i've been a longtime user of the excellent [and free!] PTHpasteboard, so not having a multiple clipboard at my disposal on any mac i use makes me feel like i'm working with one hand tied behind my back.  i'd never even contemplated that something this cool would  appear on iOS, i just hoped that some day copying and pasting would be a lot less 'sucky'.

enter pastebot - a clipboard manager for iOS that allows you to retain all those things you've copied for future reference.  of course, due to the limitations of iOS itself, the procedure is not completely transparent as it is with PTHpasteboard in OSX; there every time you copy something it automatically gets added to the pasteboard stack. with pastebot in iOS, you copy something to the clipboard, then launch pastebot and that 'thing' is automatically added to pastebot's clipboard stack.  so not exactly seamless, as you have to go through a bit of a copy item01/launch pastebot/quit pastebot/copy item02... routine, but it's not too painful and it does allow you to build up a nice stack of copied items, ready for pasting into wherever you want to paste them, from one central location, instead of jumping around from app to app.

clipboard stack in pastebot
[Image: http://tapbots.com/img/software/pastebot/screenshot_01.jpg]

that's a great help, but where i think pastebot really shines, is in its managing of clipboard items and its integration with OSX.  i'll deal with those in order:

once items are in pastebot, you can edit them, give them names and move them about into folders - you're limited to 99 items on pastebot's main clipboard, but you can make as many folders as you want and move items into them, to free up space.  these features are so handy that i've started using pastebot on my ipod as a kind of PIM like journler, yojimbo, macjournal et al. on desktop OSX.

edit clippings and/or organise them in folders
[Image: http://tapbots.com/img/software/pastebot/screenshot_03.jpg] [Image: http://tapbots.com/img/software/pastebot/screenshot_04.jpg]

integration with OSX is also excellent.  simply install the freebie pastebot sync on your mac. you'll end up with an icon in your menubar.  once you've paired your mac with your ipod/ipad/iphone, this icon turns blue.  to get sommit from your mac to your ipod/ipad/iphone, all you have to do is make sure pastebot is open on your gadget and then copy something on your mac.  you'll get a brief glimpse of some 'sync arrows' spinning on paste sync's icon and the item you copied will instantly appear in pastebot's clipboard on your ipod/ipad/iphone.

pastebot sync menu
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to go the other way, you simply select an item in pastebot which causes a button bar to appear beneath it.  click on the 'send' icon and choose 'paste to mac'.  the item is automatically pasted into the current front application on your mac.

great stuff!

the other buttons which appear under a clipping allow you to move it to a folder [as mentioned above] or run a variety of text or image filters on it.

applying filters to text and image clippings
[Image: http://tapbots.com/img/software/pastebot/screenshot_07.jpg] [Image: http://tapbots.com/img/software/pastebot/screenshot_06.jpg]


in summary, pastebot is an excellent app, which would probably be worth the £2,39 price of admission just for its multiple clipboard provision alone.  add in the syncing and clipboard management [which, as i've said, makes it double as a PIM for your ipod/ipad/iphone] and the fact that it's all wrapped up in a really lovely interface [typical of tapbot's products] and you've got yourself a real bargain here.  this is one of those rare apps that, within a couple of days of acquiring it, you start to wonder how you ever managed without it.  i'm using it so much now, it's actually in my dock on my home screen.

[apologies for the generic screengrabs by the way.  for some reason my ipod seems to have lost the ability to do screengrabs.  i hear the shutter sound but nothing appears in my photo albums  :confused: ]

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i5m 2010-08-05, 12:38 #170
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pastebot - clipboard utility


I like their attitude.
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Gamoe 2010-08-06, 02:42 #171
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I like their attitude.

Awesome.
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Speckledstone 2010-08-06, 06:49 #172
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I like their attitude.

Ha... If you can't beat em, circumvent em.  :laugh:
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