My New Invention: The Ceepoid
by W. B.
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Computers & Internet
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this is what a ceepoid is
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Ceepoid: My New Invention
I have mentally invented the "ceepoid."
This is short for the initials of Cut and Paste....
It would be a single key on the keyboard, or a virtual key in your browser. When you click it, a text box would appear on your screen and you could use it to continuously cut and paste into it. Further, it should be subdivided into squares nested within squares so you can do this with several different docs or even use it as a reminder....for example, keep a running grocery list or a music download "wish list" in it. It would be smallish...only occupying about one sixteenth of your screen (and could be resized of course...with convenient 2X 4X 8X 16X at the top of the ceepoid).
I always find it so annoying to have to go open a Word document or something to cut and paste variable amounts of text. The ceepoid (pronounced "sea-poid") would be an elegant solution for this.
An additional elegant feature I imagine for the ceepoid would be this: you can drag it over a text you're reading online and resize it according to what you want to cut and paste; you click and "capture." This removes the intermediary stage of cutting and pasting TO the ceepoid. It could act as a magnifying glass of course, too, in this "hover phase." And some "noise-reduction" features could be incorporated which would mean the ceepoid would NOT cut and paste ads, graphics, etc. occupying the same page. This would be what is known as a "smart ceepoid." But even a "regular ceepoid" would be useful.
Just pay me 100 millions dollars for inventing this, whichever software company innovates this and adds this to the keyboard first. Of course you don't have to add a new key to the keyboard for this; you could just incorporate it as a virtual button at the top of your browser, or it could be mouse-accessed.
This is a practical solution for something every computer user wants, but just doesn't know it yet.
If anybody on here is a software developer or has the ear of someone who "makes things happen" feel free to contact me, and write me an elephant check.
You're welcome.
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Ceepoid: My New Invention
I have mentally invented the "ceepoid."
This is short for the initials of Cut and Paste....
It would be a single key on the keyboard, or a virtual key in your browser. When you click it, a text box would appear on your screen and you could use it to continuously cut and paste into it. Further, it should be subdivided into squares nested within squares so you can do this with several different docs or even use it as a reminder....for example, keep a running grocery list or a music download "wish list" in it. It would be smallish...only occupying about one sixteenth of your screen (and could be resized of course...with convenient 2X 4X 8X 16X at the top of the ceepoid).
I always find it so annoying to have to go open a Word document or something to cut and paste variable amounts of text. The ceepoid (pronounced "sea-poid") would be an elegant solution for this.
An additional elegant feature I imagine for the ceepoid would be this: you can drag it over a text you're reading online and resize it according to what you want to cut and paste; you click and "capture." This removes the intermediary stage of cutting and pasting TO the ceepoid. It could act as a magnifying glass of course, too, in this "hover phase." And some "noise-reduction" features could be incorporated which would mean the ceepoid would NOT cut and paste ads, graphics, etc. occupying the same page. This would be what is known as a "smart ceepoid." But even a "regular ceepoid" would be useful.
Just pay me 100 millions dollars for inventing this, whichever software company innovates this and adds this to the keyboard first. Of course you don't have to add a new key to the keyboard for this; you could just incorporate it as a virtual button at the top of your browser, or it could be mouse-accessed.
This is a practical solution for something every computer user wants, but just doesn't know it yet.
If anybody on here is a software developer or has the ear of someone who "makes things happen" feel free to contact me, and write me an elephant check.
You're welcome.
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Ginnie
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Poor W.B. Buy a Mac and your problems will abate. Of course we would miss out on your nifty essay, but you might think it worthwhile.
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