As 9to5Mac wrote,

We’re not huge fans of Diggnation but Kevin Rose has on again off again luck with his Apple predictions. So, for your amusement:

Since I failed to embed the video here, please check-out here.

[via 9to5Mac]

But now, there’s “a very promising bookmarklet that allows iPhone users to copy and paste Web content to an email with two clicks,” as ReadWriteWeb wrote. “The bookmarklet, while still fragile, works very well. It does a great job of capturing the text.”

Kent Bewster, its creator, explained:

• Bring up Safari on your iPhone, go to the page you want to copy from, and click the little book-shaped thingie in the bottom bar. Either your History or Bookmarks bar will probably come up; you want Bookmarks, and then Bookmarks Bar.
• Click your iClipper bookmark, and then tap whatever you want to copy.
• If all goes well, your e-mail client will pop up with a message filled in. The subject line will be the title of the page you’re on right now; the body will be the text contents of whatever you tapped on the page.
• From here you can send the contents wherever you want, or simply save as a draft. Presto, copy and paste.

I haven’t tried it, but once you’ve installed and used it, let us know your experience on this.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

“After installing the application, type any text you want and simply hit the “123″ button on your keyboard to show the copy/paste buttons. Tap “copy” and start selecting the text you want to copy. Tap “copy” again to end the selection. Then tap “paste” to paste this text where you want it to be.” This implementation isn’t up to Apple’s standards for grace and ease, but it seems workable.

[via TUAW]

Swipe down = return

For example, erasing and basic punctuation insertion, directional swipes (also referred to herein as “swipe gestures”) over the alphabetic keys can be used as an alternative to striking certain keys. Because the Space and Backspace keys are quite frequently used, they are logical candidates for the rightward and leftward swipes, respectively. Leftward and rightward swipes intuitively match the cursor travel caused by these symbols. Following this cursor movement analogy, the Enter/Return may be invoked by a downward swipe, and a Shift/Caps may be invoked by an upward swipe. Alternatively, as the Enter and Shift functions may be less frequently invoked, these may be substituted for other functions as well. One alternative mapping for the upward swipe, for example, could be to activate an alternative numeric and punctuation keypad or a particular punctuation symbol like an apostrophe or period.

Swipe left = delete

Unfortunately, there’s still no copy-and-paste function.

MagicPad came to the App Store as well, giving us a look at what copy and paste could be like if it were native to the iPhone. And if you’re an app developer, you got some seriously good news this week when it was revealed just how profitable app sales can be. 

The iPhone 2.0.1 Firmware update hit iPhones this week as well, and as shown in our side-by-side comparison, gave the phone a considerable speed boost. During the week, Installer 4 was leaked in beta form, but it got an official beta release alongside PwnageTool 2.0.2. 

More countries are getting the iPhone 3G on August 22, plus, we learned that it may be possible to stream your iTunes library over Wi-Fi onto your iPhone in the future, due to a new patent Apple has filed. We also took a look at several apps in the App Store to give you an idea of what’s available, including Dice Bag, Frogger, Cubes Lite, Sudoku Unlimited and Dizzy Bee. 

Finally, you can’t have an iPhone without something stylish to keep it in. The Dapper iPhone Pouch is a unisex slip case that gives off a masculine vibe. JAVOedge’s embossed leather back cover protects the back of your iPhone with textured, feminine designs and ColorWare can customize your iPhone’s back, border and buttons to a color coating of your choice. And that’s all for this week’s news!

While you can, indeed, copy and paste with MagicPad, you can only copy and paste text from within the app. There’s no cross-app copy and pasting. But there are a few different font options, styles and colors to choose from. You can also email text but it seems that may be a bit sloppy. 

This should be a good introduction to what copy and paste would be like on the iPhone, but I’m afraid we’re still not seeing the true cut and paste that we all so desperately want. I think only Apple will be able to deliver that.

[via Gear Diary]

Proximi has created an app called MagicPad, which will provide iPhone users with the simple ability to copy and paste–within this app only, though. While this is pretty much a glorified version of “Notes” it also allows you to change font, font size, style and color.

So, if you need to do some text editing, try to do it in this app. However, without the ability to copy from other apps or from mail, let’s say and paste into MagicPad, I don’t see what’s so revolutionary. It seems to be more of a demonstration that yes, copy and paste can work on here, than anything else. You can, however, copy and paste between notes within MagicPad.

[via TechCrunch]