Pastebot Will Change Your Life
Posted 12/16/2009 at 7:46am
| by J.R. Bookwalter

There are over 100,000 applications in Apple’s popular App Store -- but how many of those could be called truly useful or innovative? Tapbots can stake claim to at least one of them with their just-released
Pastebot.
On the surface, Pastebot is a clipboard manager for the iPhone and iPod touch. Copy something you want to save, run Pastebot and it automatically gets imported for you to access later. If that’s where its functionality ended, it wouldn’t be much different from a few other similar apps already in the App Store, and maybe not even worth the $1.99 price of admission.
Pastebot goes beyond simple clipboard management by letting you send your clippings via e-mail as well as saving your edited images back to your photo library.

OK, that’s pretty cool… but what if we told you Pastebot also has the magic ability to transfer such clippings to and from your Mac?
It’s true! Pastebot has a free companion Pastebot Sync preference pane that allows you to magically push text and images to your phone over Wi-Fi by simply copying them on your Mac. You can even push clippings in Pastebot right to your Mac with the press of a button. As Tapbots puts it, moving text and images to and from your device has never been easier.
Among its many other talents, Pastebot can organize your clippings in folders and use a built-in search to quickly find what you’re looking for once your clippings start getting up there in number. Images can be filtered, cropped or rotated without ever leaving the app, and you can also run filters on text, such as Convert to Lowercase/Uppercase, Find and Replace, Smarten Quotes and more. There are 14 filters included and Tapbots promises that more are on the way.
Pastebot is not lacking in style, either: It’s a beautifully designed app in the tradition of Tapbots’ other apps,
Convertbot and
Weightbot.
Pastebot is $1.99 for a limited time only, compatible with iPhone and iPod touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.