Rob Mayhew

Here is a screen shot of the new cl1p.net. It should be up in a few weeks. What do you think?

You can use cl1p.net as a start page for programmers. As a web application developer I have to access a lot of machines in the office. Most of them are by IP and some have long cumbersome names. I also have to access the web apps that I’m working on from different browsers.

My solution was to use cl1p.net to make a simple HTML start page. You can see it here.

Create your own, just follow these steps.

1. Pick a URL that starts with cl1p.net. ( i picked http://cl1p.net/robs/startpage )

2. In the Textarea write the HTML. I just use a simple table and links, but you could use any HTML you wanted.

3. Add a password, change the keep for to something longer then a week and Click save, you will see a message saying (Page was saved).

4. In the top right hand corner you see a link http://cl1p.net/robs/startpage. Click on that link to see the rendered HTML.

5. What happened here is that you are now looking at http://d.cl1p.net/robs/startpage. This will only show you the raw data, and since its HTML we see an HTML page.

6. Set http://d.cl1p.net/robs/startpage as the homepage.

Bam! There you go. A programmers start page.

You can now link cl1ps together. Just add the URL of the cl1p you want to add at the bottom of the cl1p in the cl1p link section to link cl1ps together.

I’ve just uploaded the latest version. New features.

1. cl1p accounts.

You can now create an account with cl1p! The first account feature is the tracking of cl1ps. When logged in any cl1p that you create or edit is added to your cl1p account. Though this account you can track your cl1ps!

2. Tittle

The title of each cl1p can now be set in the title box on each cl1p.

3. Random Cl1p’s.

Need a blank cl1p in a hurry? Just type in r.cl1p.net in your browser. You will be redirected to a blank cl1p.

I just read the post at Ray Ozzie’s blog where he talks about live clipboards, and cutting and pasting between everything - web-app to web-app, web-app to desktop, desktop to web-app. Give it a read if you haven’t yet - its really interesting.

Some people have written that cl1p.net is the first answer to the live clipboard question, And in a way it is, you can now move text and small files between PC - PC. It’s no where near Ray’s vision, but it is a start.

I’m still working on implementing cl1p accounts and other features I listed below. But I think once that’s done I’ll start to look at ways to copy and paste parts of websites into cl1p.

Oh and still waiting for that buyout offer Ray.