Finally, someone has developed a way to copy and paste text from Safari to Mail, and between web pages. And this time, it doesn’t require any software installation and it’s legal.

It utilizes a clever combination of javascript bookmarks and web services to achieve the task.

In fact, it doesn’t require anything to be installed at all, so it avoids the App Store altogether. Pastebud, as the service is called, works using two bookmarks in Safari. One prepares and loads the page you are viewing, ready to select text at the touch of a finger. From there, you can copy any text you want and create a new mail message with that text in it. In addition to that, you will be able to copy and paste in the text field of a different web page.

While this is not “full” copy and paste capabilities, i’m sure many users will welcome the ability do exactly this, which is basically what most want to do 80% of the time anyway. According to Jed Schmidt, creator of Pastebud, they have been testing it for about a week and they are now “putting the finishing touches on the web site before launch”. This app should be pretty hot on release.

Check it out in action below:

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