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Rather that sit around making incremental tweaks to the web site and waiting for that elusive first sale, I thought I’d go ahead and start working on v1.2. With the feedback I’ve gotten from the BoS forum, my earlier beta-testers (thank you all!) and my own ideas, I have more than enough changes to constitute a new release.

What changes, dare you ask? Well, here’ the rundown:

• Files. You will be able to store a file as a clip (up to 3MB)
• Drag and Drop. Drag a file, image or text selection into the copy2web window.
• Drag text and image clips out of copy2web and into another application.
• Drag files to the Finder or Explorer to save them to the local filesystem.
• Compression. Clips are now GZIP compressed for faster upload/download.
• Windows Task Tray. On Windows, minimize copy2web to the task tray.
• Progress indicator. For big clips, an infinite progress indicator will appear to mesmerize you whilst you wait.
• Full Linux support

Happily, I was able to do most of this over the weekend!

Someone mentioned selling the server component. This will happen, but probably not until June or so. Please be patient. I have a day job, a lot of travel planned and a seven-year-old.

The only other big request that I’m not prepared to do yet is clip sharing. I’m not sure how I want something like that to work yet. Does the recipient have to have copy2web? Can we just email a URL for non-users to get the clip? Or IM or something?

So, what do you think? Did I miss any must haves? Send and email or tweet me on twitter (bmanley) and let me know…