Review: The crowd goes wild for Pastebot

Monday, December 28, 2009

Game Name:	PasteBot
Platforms:	iPhone, iPod Touch
Developer(s):	Tapbots
Genre(s):	Utility
Version Reviewed:	1.0

Pastebot (App Store) is a new copy and paste app that is getting rave reviews. At $2.99 it is not cheap, but it is slick and is a very welcome utility for those who use their iPhones for research, composition and image management. It provides a great way of storing information on your phone without burying it in a browser. It will also allow you to sync up with your Mac using Pastebot Sync which you can download for free from the developer Tapbot.

You use this app in conjunction with the iPhone’s copy and paste function. You identify images or text to copy, and launch Pastebot to automatically store the new clipping. To copy a clipping from Pastebot you tap on it to light a blue light then paste it in wherever you want, even to your Mac from your iPhone. It will allow you to paste search terms into Google, send as email or move to a folder. On the way to doing that you are given numerous settings or filters which allow you to tailor your clipping the way you like it: all uppercase or lowercase, coded HTML entities or uncoded, wrap in HTML tags and find and replace. It will aslo allow you to Quote lines, Smarten Quotes and Straighten Quotes. You can even copy photos out of your iPhone and paste them into your iPhoto program on your Mac, although only one or two at a time.

pastebot is pretty! and useful!

You can keep up to 99 clipboard entries, and then you can create folders to move the clippings to. This really helps to keep lots of information and pictures at your fingertips within the app. The next step for Pastebot would be the capability of copying whole files and pasting them from your Mac to your iPhone and vice versa.

All of this is wonderful but of course you will need to be in wifi for Pastebot and Pastebot Sync to be able to talk to each other from your iPhone to your Mac. The instructions are a little hard to find and unless you are familiar with this type of program you will probably need to find them in the Pastebook Sync program on you Mac. Or you can go to the developer’s website at Tapbots. com and Pastebot.com.

This useful app will be very popular for the hardcore iPhone user and is already getting high marks in the app store.