WHAT IS FLASHPASTE?

Flashpaste is a useful program that I have used daily on my personal computer since 2004. It simply lets you create a database of texts that you use often, and quickly paste the texts into whatever you are working on.

Here are some of my applications:

Text writing:

This morning, I changed 30 forms at http://www.kidlink.org/english/career. Soon, I got tired of typing "What must I do to " before pasting the rest of the line (example of paste: "become a dentist?")

Solution: I put "What must I do to " into Flashpaste. Each time I needed the text, I pressed Ctrl-U, a list popped up on my screen, and I clicked "What must I do to " to insert it at the cursor in the HTML I was working on.

Form letters:

Example: standard welcome to new Chinese language translators.

Solution: I start writing a new email in Eudora. After having typed the email address, I place the cursor by Subject. Ctrl-U to open Flashpaste, a click at "1st email Chinese" on the popup list, and the letter is pasted into Eudora.

Web development:

To insert HTML and JavaScript code that is hard to remember or tedious to type. Examples:

• the JavaScript to show the date a web page was last updated

(http://www.kidlink.org/english/society/jobs/tbottom)

• the Google Analytics JavaScript.

(http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/web/analytics)

Commonly used phrases:

Example: http://www.kidlink.org (which I am tired of typing wrongly)

List of email addresses:

Every morning, I read online news, Kidlink statistics, etc. Sometimes, I want to forward an article to someone in Kidlink.

Solution: a list of email addresses and related names in Flashpaste.