Pastefire is a handy little utility that lets you paste things quickly from your desktop to iPhone, but with some added magic.  The magic is that Pastefire takes what you’re pasting and makes intelligent choices about what to do with it, saving you several taps and steps.  For instance, if you paste @justiphoneblog it doesn’t […]
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Pastefire, Desktop to iPhone Pasteboard Utility, Adds a Mac Client

Mar 11th 2010 by

Pastefire iPhone app

Pastefire is a handy little utility that lets you paste things quickly from your desktop to iPhone, but with some added magic.  The magic is that Pastefire takes what you’re pasting and makes intelligent choices about what to do with it, saving you several taps and steps.  For instance, if you paste @justiphoneblog it doesn’t just paste the text across to your iPhone – it also fires up Tweetie or Twitterrific for you, because it recognizes the text as a Twitter ID.

Or if you paste a URL, it opens it straight away in Safari.  An email address opens in the Mail app, and so on.

This week Pastefire has released a Mac client – so pasting from a Mac desktop is even simpler.

The Mac client installs as a service.  It lets you use keyboard shortcuts to send selected text straight across to the iPhone.  So now I can just highlight an email address, hit Shift-Command-U (my chosen shortcut) and have it immediately popup an alert on my iPhone.  When I tap View on that alert, it fires up a new email in the Mail app with that pasted text in the recipient field.  Pastefire does not need to be open for this to work either – it uses push alerts to cover that side of things.

PastefireMac

Here are some of Pastefire’s keyfeatures, as per its App Store description:

– 1 click auto-mode actions include: phone number autodial, URL opening, transfer to iPhone clipboard
– smart URL, email address and phone number recognition
– common actions include: open in safari, SMS to or with content, Email to and with content, search on Google or Wikipedia
– call to skypeout (on wifi when active)
– Send to Twitter (Tweetie & Twitterriffic autodiscovered if installed)

Pastefire

I’m finding Pastefire very useful now that it can do things for me via just a simple keyboard shortcut, very glad to see it add this Mac client.

You can find Pastefire in the App Store now, and it’s a free app.  The Mac client is also free and can be downloaded from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pastefireclient/

*** Please Note:  The Mac client requires Snow Leopard.

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