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9:00AM Angus Kidman | One of the less-heralded features in the forthcoming Office 2010 is a change to how copy and paste works. While the new “Live Preview Paste” is an improvement, it’s still a little fiddly and inconsistent, especially for keyboard shortcut junkies. More »
Office 2010 Paste Improves, Could Still Be Better
9:00AM Angus Kidman | One of the less-heralded features in the forthcoming Office 2010 is a change to how copy and paste works. While the new “Live Preview Paste” is an improvement, it’s still a little fiddly and inconsistent, especially for keyboard shortcut junkies. More » 
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Pastie Speeds Up iPhone Email With Pre-Formatted Text
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | iPhone: Emails can be unique, but sometimes you just need to tell the boss you’re “running 10 minutes late,” or ask a spouse what they need from the store. Pastie makes sending common text blocks to contacts fast and easy. More »
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iPhone 3.0 Might Include Copy & Paste
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Digg founder Kevin Rose apparently let go with some rumours about where this week’s iPhone 3.0 software update will take Apple’s smartphone. If what Rose said at his Diggnation SXSW party holds true, users will get copy and paste abilities by pinching and dragging two quote icons to create “copy boundaries,” then a dialog to cut, copy, or paste in previously copied text. Rose has been spot-on before, but we’ll have to wait to see if he goes two for two. More »
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CopyTaste Lets You Quickly Publish Text And Media
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | CopyTaste is an online repository for snippets of text, pictures, and video you want to quickly share with others, anonymously or otherwise. The main page of CopyTaste throws you right into the meat of the site, the editor you see above. From there you can write a basic text entry or use the rich text editor to insert pictures and video into your message. You have the option to leave the message wide open and available for comments, or secure it with password. Every note that you save in CopyTaste is given a unique URL; the letter in the screenshot above can be seen at http://www.copytaste.com/wkb3912. If you’re only using CopyTaste to store snippits of text for yourself, there’s no need to register, but signing up does link your CopyTaste snippets to your OpenID profile for easier sharing and retrieval. CopyTaste [via Webware] More »
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2:00PM Angus Kidman | Even on modern PCs, large spreadsheets can sometimes seem to run at the speed of sludge. The Microsoft Excel blog runs through how to deal with one common reason for this problem: hidden objects in the spreadsheet introduced via indiscriminate cutting and pasting. Check the post for details on how to hunt down and remove those unwanted items. (Note to Microsoft: the ribbon doesn’t seem to make this particular common task any easier!)
Hidden and Invisible Objects [Microsoft Excel Blog]
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Speed Up Excel Files By Removing Hidden Objects
2:00PM Angus Kidman | Even on modern PCs, large spreadsheets can sometimes seem to run at the speed of sludge. The Microsoft Excel blog runs through how to deal with one common reason for this problem: hidden objects in the spreadsheet introduced via indiscriminate cutting and pasting. Check the post for details on how to hunt down and remove those unwanted items. (Note to Microsoft: the ribbon doesn’t seem to make this particular common task any easier!)
Hidden and Invisible Objects [Microsoft Excel Blog]
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Clippy Brings Copy/Paste To Jailbroken iPhones (Everywhere Except Safari)
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | With one major exception, Clippy, a free download for jailbroken iPhones/iPod touch, makes copying and pasting text across apps easy and convenient. Here’s how it works. More »
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Pastebud Brings Bookmark-Powered Copy And Paste To The iPhone
12:15AM Kevin Purdy | Pastebud, a bookmarklet/webapp combo that works around the lack of a copy or paste function in the iPhone and iPod touch, has just gone live. And it’s surprisingly elegant and painless, with a few small hitches. More »
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Copy And Paste Coming To Your iPhone Via The Web
1:35AM Adam Pash | With a little Javascript ingenuity, a new service called Pastebud aims to bring the long awaited copy-and-paste functionality to the iPhone and iPod touch. Pastebud’s copy and paste only work between Safari and Mail (or Safari tabs), but since that’s where most of us are looking to do copying and pasting, it’s not a bad start. Check the video for a full demonstration. Pastebud is slated to launch this week. [via Gizmodo] More »
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QuoteURLText Copies Highlighted Text And Source URL
7:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Firefox only: If you like to copy and paste snippets of web pages—but want to include the source URL and date and time in one shot—the QuoteURLText add-on’s for you. Once installed, just select the relevant quote from a web page and press Ctrl+Shift+C (Win) or Command+Shift+C (Mac) and the selection will be copied along with the URL of the source page. Additional options allow you to include the time browsed and title of the page, as well. Advanced options let you refine the metadata added to the selection in the clipboard further. QuoteURLText is a free add-on download for Firefox browsers. QuoteURLText [via gHacks] More »
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