Finally launched a very basic web app I’ve been piddling around with for a while. It’s called ClipRunner, and it’s only purpose is to help get bits of text from one computer to another.

I built this mainly for my own needs. Seemed like every time I turned around, I needed to get a little bit of text from one place to another. Usually things like a long URL, an IP address, WEP key, or something I otherwise wouldn’t be able to remember going from one office to another.

The concept is pretty simple. Type or paste your text into the big field, enter a “pickup code” in the little field. Then go to the other computer and go to cliprunner.com/yourcode to retrieve it.

Is it secure? Well, it depends on what your criteria is. There is no real authentication, so if someone guesses your code, they’ll see it in all its glory. But as the fine print points out, be smart about it. For example, pasting a Photoshop serial number is one thing. But don’t SAY it’s a photoshop serial. And don’t use a pickup code of: photoshopserial. I think that’s pretty reasonable.

At any rate, I’d love to get feedback on the utility of this thing, even though I know I’ll be using it myself