5 Tools to Quickly Share Text, Notes or Code over the Internet

Posted on 24. Feb, 2009 by Aravind Jose in Internet Tools

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You are likely to have experienced at least once, a situation, where you had to quickly send some piece of text/code to many people at once. This happens mostly at places like Twitter (with character limits). What if 140 characters (in case of Twitter), was not enough for you to explain something?!

Well, I have a few solutions to this problem. Just fire up a new tab, get to one of the following Clipboards/PasteBoards on the web, type in your info, grab it and send ‘em the link.

5 Tools To Share Your Message

TinyPaste

tinypaste-logoSlick interface, efficient, fast and reliable all describe TinyPaste. It has a decent set of formatting options too. Another good thing about TinyPaste is that it has a nice Firefox extension that lets you right click on any selected text, Click “Tinypaste selected text” and get the TinyPaste URL without leaving the page you are on.

TextBin

Does the job well. Ultra-simple interface. The advantage of using txtb.in is that the links are shorter than those of other services, because of a shorter domain.

PasteBin

pastebinThis is much more than just a text/note share service. It’s defined as a “collaborative debugging tool”, mostly suited for coders and programmers.  This one supports editing the shared information, therefore it’s called “collaborative.” It’s charm is more proclaimed with the fact that it has syntax highlighting for about 70 programming and scripting languages! Definitely, a killer tool for coders and programmers.

PrivNote

privnote-logo-thumb.png“Send notes that will self destruct after being read”. Use this one, if you don’t want to leave any traces! PrivNote is a single-use disposable text sharing tool that has been covered once before,Send a Note Mission Impossible Style. Once it is read by someone, it gets burnt! (This site uses Secure SSL connection, for added security.)

DisposableWebPage

Analogous to PrivNote, but slightly extended; this one gives you the choice to select the lifetime of the shared stuff : from 0 days to a maximum of 90 days.

Conclusion

The next time you feel like sharing a lyric that you like, sending over your system specs when asking for tech help or when you just feel like writing and sharing more head over to these places and get it done. That said, NEVER EVER share your sensitive details like CREDIT CARD DETAILS, PASSWORDS, LEGAL DOCUMENTS or just anything that is very important or private. Be Good!

Aravind Jose T. (@AravindJose) is a web & media enthusiast and a volunteer for positivity. Loves sense, logic, clarity, simplicity and logic.

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6 Responses to “5 Tools to Quickly Share Text, Notes or Code over the Internet”

  1. Phaoloo

    24. Feb, 2009

    TinyPaste is really useful, especially when I want to tweet something more than 140 character.

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  2. Aravind Jose

    24. Feb, 2009

    Exactly. These are of great use in situations like the ones you mentioned.

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  3. lorenzo

    15. Mar, 2009

    and http://textshare.altervista.org ?

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  4. Kunkka

    06. Apr, 2009

    TextBin (http://www.textbin.com) instead of txtb.in also one of my favourite text pasting tool on the web!

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  5. bobis

    25. Feb, 2010

    tinypaste is nice service, but they’ve stopped to count new visitors and add points, so no money any more, also they are not responding on any emails, so it looks like they’re going to close the service

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  6. Sushie

    03. Apr, 2010

    I always use TinyPaste or Hey Paste It to copy paste my text, i like this one, it is very simple and easy to share text with people just with a short code.
    Thanks for sharing others tool.

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