She would finish the story, then go back and insert her "red herrings". JK Rowling would do the same when writing Harry Potter. After all, isn't this what mystery writers have been doing for decades? Although many readers have seen and read it all, there is something to be said about gently misleading the reader away from the obvious to keep the story filled with surprise. It seemed to me that if I wanted to keep my writing fresh, I needed to be able to pull off twists and turns in unexpected ways. Could I put the same twists into my writing? I was set up to expect one thing, then given something unexpected. The image was misleading, but not manipulative. I've thought long and hard about that moment of surprise since then. Yet it had the feeling of having been done on purpose. It was a random moment of serendipity caused by how Flipboard presented the tweet. This surprise wasn't anything Scott Nicholson had intended. So I tapped on her pic, then almost dropped my iPad in surprise when the full image loaded. I felt a moment of chagrin since I had previously dismissed her as uninteresting along with her show months ago. I never took Snooki to be the studious type, yet there she was looking absolutely bookwormish. I've seen enough of the show to recognize her. I don't watch the show, but I've seen a few clips. Last month as I browsed I came across an entry by Scott Nicholson It featured the notorious Snooki from Jersey Shore. But Flipboard reformats the tweets as articles and images displayed inline in magazine format, making the experience new for me, especially when the emphasis is on design and art. I've been on Twitter for over three years and the endless stream of status updates can become boring at times. Short of those small complaints, Pastebot is now one of my favorite iPhone apps and one that deserves a place of prominence on your iPhone’s home screen.I like to occasionally read through my Twitter stream with Flipboard on my iPad. Also, while Pastebot was quite capable when it came to copying images and text from my Mac, copying files other than images in the Finder proved problematic-Pastebot only copied a PNG image of the icon and not the actual file. Because Pastebot can’t monitor and import everything that’s being copied to the clipboard, you’ll find yourself playing a game of iPhone hopscotch as you continuously bounce between Pastebot and the different apps from which you’re copying information or images. While it’s a great app, Pastebot isn’t perfect: it’s hamstrung by the limitations Apple puts on applications running in the background of your mobile device. If your selected clipping is text, the Filters menu lets you make changes to the text, like finding and replacing text, converting your text to upper or lowercase letters, adding HTML tags, or smartening or straightening your quotes. Tapping Pastebot’s Filters menu allows you to make changes to images, such as adjusting the brightness, changing saturation levels, or converting the image to black and white. This, is a very nice feature that’s far less expensive than any of the full-on clipboard apps you’ll find for your Mac. Open Pastebot on your iPhone or iPod touch and cruise your Mac, the Web, or any other application copying and cutting everything you want to keep, and Pastebot sucks it all in like a high-tech vacuum cleaner. Alternatively, install theįree Pastebot Sync application on your Mac, and you’ll be given the option to paste anything from Pastebot to any application on your Mac and have anything you cut or copy on your Mac be automatically pasted into Pastebot.įor me, this syncing capability ends up being one of Pastebot’s hidden killer features. Tapping a text clipping offers the option to search for the text via Google as well as the e-mail and folder options. Tapping an image offers you the option to save it to your photo library, e-mail it, or move it to a different folder. What appears when you tap the Action menu varies depending on what your clipping is. If the item you’ve copied is exactly the same as something Pastebot already has stored, the app won’t re-import the clipping. Pastebot also offers a high level of intelligence when it comes to what it will or won’t import. Tapping a text clipping’s information window displays character and word counts and the date the clipping was created a photo’s information window displays its creation date and the size of the selected image. Tapping any clipping in any folder automatically loads it into the iPhone’s clipboard and reveals a small menu, which contains Action and Filters menus as well as a small information window. You can organize your clippings into folders-the app’s default folder can only hold 99 clippings, but you can store an unlimited number of clippings in the folders you create. Once the importing’s done, PasteBot offers you several options.
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