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It's Clippy! Back as a Mac App Store utility

by Erica Sadun Jan 6th 2011 at 4:15PM

It may not be Microsoft Bob, but boy am I happy that I installed Clippy (US$0.99 in the Mac App Store) on my Mac. No, Clippy isn't that annoying "It looks like you are writing a letter" implementation from years past, but something far more helpful.

The new Clippy, the better Clippy, the Macintosh Clippy allows your Mac to remember previous pasteboard entries for those always awkward times when you have to copy not one but two or more separate items after another. You can pull items as you need them directly from the menu bar at the top of Finder.

That's brilliant.

Clippy is, at the current time, text only -- so you're not going to be able to store images, sound snippets and the like. Also, it doesn't seem to store text formatting along with the core text, which is either a disappointment or the Best Thing Ever, depending on your use case and viewpoint.


I'm really happy with my $0.99 purchase -- and if you do a lot of copy and pasting you may be, too. Clippy was created by Naheed Kausar of Faw_zz. Commenters also suggest the non-App Store (and free!) options of JumpCut or ClipMenu, both of which are listed as still under development. There's another tool that's both open source and for sale in the Mac App Store: Clyppan, which costs $10 in the store (version 1.1) but is also apparently downloadable to build yourself in Xcode (version 1.0).



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Ariel Di Stefano

Did you try Social Clipboard (http://www.socialclipboard). It has up to 100 items, but also integration with FaceBook, DropBox and Twitter!.

January 17 2011 at 10:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

Ah memories! (caution, language!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUvcYP859fg

And what's so special about this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221190 Or am I missing something?
Brian

January 07 2011 at 1:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jo

try jumpcut. its free.

January 06 2011 at 9:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

Not sure how long this App will last, so you better get it while you can. "Clippy" is intellectual property of Microsoft.

January 06 2011 at 8:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steven Rushing

It is annoying that it has to run in the dock, but it was my understanding that this is a requirement set by Apple for inclusion in the App Store. Is this correct?

January 06 2011 at 8:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Zactu

Despite advances in technology, people are more busier than ever. The Mac App Store is one of many responses to this. Convenience. You may or may not pay extra for convenience in the Mac App Store, but you do other areas. You have a car, washing machine, microwave, LCD TV, toaster, etc, well, you are paying heavily for those conveniences. Time versus Money. The Mac App Store is long over due. Don't like it, don't use it.

January 06 2011 at 6:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ciaocibai

Had to jump in on the jumpcut bandwagon.

I'd say worst 99 cents you've spent myself, especially considering the ugly icon that goes with it!

It makes me wonder how many people will start thinking the mac universe consists only of apps in the app store and won't bother looking any further.

January 06 2011 at 5:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
zyzzyx26

Jumpcut FTW!

January 06 2011 at 5:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

How did this make it into the App Store without Apple calling copyright infringement?

January 06 2011 at 5:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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