http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/openclip http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/openclip Last week, iPhone developers pounced on a workaround for the Apple gadget's inability to let users cut and paste text between applications. Never mind. Apple's latest firmware update plugs the loophole. Back to writing down phone numbers on paper.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5041588&view=rss&microfeed=true A gaggle of iPhone programmers have figured out a way to solve the iPhone's most embarrassing shortcoming: The inability to cut and paste text between applications. OpenClip creates a shared clipboard that doesn't violate Apple's technical restrictions on iPhone applications. It works, but only for applications that are updated to use OpenClip to access the clipboard. The demo starts at 0:58 into the jargony video report above.

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