Understanding iPhone 3.0 - #1 - Cut, Copy and Paste with iPhone 3.0

Butterscotch Tutorial Special iPhone 3.0 New Features Overview Part one of five: Cut, copy and paste Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to the first in a five part series on the new iPhone 3.0 update. This software is available not only the newest hardware version of the iPhone, but is actually applicable to the previous generation on the iPhone. I've actually got it running on an iPhone 3G here. You can do that with an update, it'll cost you a little bit of money, but you can do it. And one of the things that it's added and people have parleying for, from the very first generation of the iPhone was cut, copy and paste and that has now been added. It's fairly easy to do, although it's not necessarily as obvious as you would like. Once you how it is actually pretty quick and easy. So we've -- I've got an email here that I've sent to myself earlier with some notes for this episode and to cut and copy and paste it's fairly simple. So you simply go to the place where you want to start doing these cutting and copying and pasting and you actually hold down you finger. So I'm going to hold at the beginning here, a magnification comes up there, like it does when you're trying to potion your cursor and before hand, but now when you let go it gives you the option to select or select all. Selecting all will copy absolutely everything here. It'll select all the text from the beginning of the email to the end. I just want to select a little bit here. So I'm going to hit select and now you'll notice that there's these two little bars with dots on them, that indicates the in and out point for what I want to copy here. So to change this I'm actually going to grab the last one and keep moving until I get to the end of the section that I want to copy. So you'll notice it pops up a little but here that says copy, it doesn't allow me to cut here because this is an email that I have received and I can't actually cut from that because it's non-editable. So I'm going to hit copy and now I'm kind of past this somewhere else on my iPhone so I can send another email to someone else with this in there. But I can also go into another application, for example notes and I'm going to create a new note and now I'll put my finger down on here again and hold it down, the magnification glass pops up and now I see I have the paste option here, so by clicking on paste it actually pasts everything that I just did. Now we can see how cut works by doing this again. I'm going to go to the beginning of this little section here, realize that I don't want this one. So I'm going to select again and put down. And now when I let go it actually has cut, copy and past, because this is editable I can actually cut and that takes a little bit more than one to two because I had selected a little bit more than that. I thought I was selecting, you know if I wanted to put that back I can actually just hold down again. Press past and there it comes back, because it still in the buffer. So another thing you can do here that is actually kind of interesting, if I create a new note here and do that again, press paste, put in there and realize oh you know what I didn't want to do that. What I can do now is I can actually pick the whole thing up and shake it and it'll actually come up with this little screen that says undo paste, so I can do that and I click that and away it goes. That's not just necessarily for pasting, if I type a bunch of stuff too and I realize that's completely wrong then I can just pick it up and shake it and shake it hard enough, it's a little hard to do, to actually activate it, but then you can hit undo typing, when you don't have your phone on a little stand that's glued into the desk, it's a bit easier to do that. Now you can past to a number of different places around, you can type in to the notepad, you can do it into browser input window, URL, you can actually cut phone number from one of your emails and then paste it in a new contact in your phone book. Various places where this works, still learning all of the places that it works and it doesn't work. So try it out, see what you can do and happy pasting. Butterscotch; tasty tech, delicious downloads butterscotch.com a division of Twcows Corp. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/