I discarded Synergy not because I have anything against it (in fact I think it's an amazing piece of software) but because using another client/server just for a shared clipboard seemed too much, specially when I already had one (Dropbox) that allowed me to avoid setting up configurations, permissions, firewall exceptions. Also, FastScripts is not the only program that allows you to define keyboard shortcuts in OS X. Perhaps I should have been more terse with the ingredients (as in " AutoHotkey in Windows, FastScripts in OS X and Dropbox in both") but I think the first sentence is quite clear about the goal, and I wanted to illustrate where the idea had come from. Right now I get by giving DropboxClipboard.txt a star in the Dropbox app and using the system clipboard, but it's not the same. I really, really would love to have something similar in my iPhone. I hope someone else find this useful, and if there are better ways to do it, please tell about it in the comments. The ones I use get the Dropbox folder path from Dropbox's configuration files, encrypts and decrypts the text in the file, and do a couple of extra things with files inside the Dropbox folder, all this accompanied with notifications, so I know what's happening. This is a standalone and simplified version of the scripts I really use, for the sake of clarity. NOTE: For these scripts to work you probably need to 'Enable access for assistive devices' in the Universal Access System Preference pane. Set inFile to open for access DropboxClipboard Set DropboxClipboard to DropboxFolder
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