
I came up with a super useful way to copy the clipboard from OS X straight to your iPad or iPhone!
Everything you need is free. Only pre-reqs are Dropbox and Automator. I've only tried this on Snow Leopard and I'm not sure if it works on Leopard. I use this to get URLs onto the iPad, notes and it even works pretty well if you need to copy a Wifi password without syncing to iTunes. Best thing about it is that the copy process is near instantaneous!
It's pretty simple and works like this:
- Select text
- Right click -> Copy to iPad (Dropbox)
See it in action:

Wooo! Now first, make sure you have Dropbox installed on both your Mac and iPad (Free)
Then we need to make a simple to make Automator service:
- Open Automator.
- Choose "Service".
- Search for "Run Shell Script".
- You want the /bin/bash shell (should be default option).
- Type in the following:
cat > ~/Dropbox/Mac-Clipboard.txt
- Save the Service.
- Make sure it looks like this:

- You're done!
Now all you ever need to do is right click on some text, pretty much anywhere, choose it from the menu we created. Since the clipboard's contents are normally very small (say less than 500kb) your upload to Dropbox should be pretty much instantaneous! When you open DropBox on your iPad, the copied text will be waiting.
After some more thinking about making this better I thought it would be good to do something like this for images using an RTF file format and a Python script. I abandoned the idea since Python doesn't have an RTF writer built-in so you would have to download it separately, make it, blah... blah... it was just getting too complicated. It's best to keep it simple and if you really want images, just copy them to your Dropbox
If you liked this tip or think you can improve it in someway, be sure to leave a comment!