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Daily Mac App: iClip

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 1st, 2011)

I missed out on iClip during its initial heyday a few years ago, so I was pleased to see it make a comeback. The OS X utility keeps a copy of almost anything that can be sent to the clipboard. It'll also organize those into scrapbooks or however you want. iClip sits off to the right side of ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: CmdVees

by Samuel Gibbs (May 12th, 2011)

The ability to copy and paste text is a staple of the modern OS. Even iOS can do it, but on the Mac, the default clipboard behavior can be a bit limiting at times. CmdVees is a US$4.99 ($0.99 when reviewed) Mac App Store utility that acts as an extension to the OS X clipboard, allowing ...

Snow Leopard nice touch: no more "Picture 1" files

by Michael Rose (Aug 30th, 2009)

I've always been a fan of ⌘-Shift-4 for taking quick and easy screenshots on my Mac, even with such level-up options as Jing, Skitch, GrabUp and LittleSnapper readily to hand. What I wasn't a fan of, however, was the proliferation of "Picture 1," "Picture 2,"... up to "Picture N" screenshot ...

Manage your iPhone's clipboard with Snippets

by Kevin Harter (Jul 6th, 2009)

The cut, copy, and paste features (finally) included in version 3.0 of the iPhone OS greatly improve the productivity of the iDevices. However, there is room for improvement. Enter Erich Bratton with his clipboard manager app, Snippets, available now in the iTunes App Store [iTunes link]. Snippets ...

Clips updated to 1.1

by Mike Schramm (Sep 29th, 2008)

Clips is a relatively new application (designed by our friend Nicholas Penree and his cohorts at Conceited Software, who also sell Linkinus) designed to kick your clipboard into overdrive -- it'll let you keep track of any and all clips even across applications, Spaces, and even different Macs. ...

Beta Beat: Corkboard is your clipboard's buddy

by Steven Sande (Jul 8th, 2008)

Sometimes Command-C and Command-V just aren't enough. You're working on a project and want to capture a bunch of text, pictures, or code, and then paste it into the project you're working on. Using the Mac clipboard, you're toggling between open applications, cutting and pasting like there's no ...

Sharing your clipboard

by Joshua Ellis (May 29th, 2008)

Web Worker Daily's got a nice little roundup of apps that allow you to share your clipboard between multiple computers. There's tools for Windows, Mac and -- most useful -- cross-platform. Also, as a user points out in the comments for the post, there's cl1p.net, a web-based tool that lets you ...

Rock your clipboard with CopyPaste Pro

by Dave Caolo (May 5th, 2008)

Described as "Time Machine for the clipboard," CopyPastePro takes your Mac's clipboard way beyond simple temporary storage. There's a multiple clipboard option of course, but CopyPaste Pro also lets you edit the contents of a given clipboard (or "clips" as they call them) with its built-in word ...

DragThing 5.9 with Leopard support and full dragabilty

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2007)

DragThing, which could have my favorite Mac app name ever, is a launcher that will open up anything you (surprise!) drag to it, and can also work as a Dock alternative and a visual clipboard. The idea is that everything you need is just a click (or a hotkey press) away. And now, this thing has hit ...

PTHPasteboard Pro: multiple clipboards and text filtering

by Mat Lu (May 17th, 2007)

PTHPasteboard Pro is yet another multiple clipboard manager, but this one has a cool little trick up its sleeve: text filters. In addition to saving clipboard history like the many other clipboard manager out there, PTHPasteboard Pro allows you to use 40+ text filters to manipulate and transform ...

Quicksilver Trigger, Strip Clipboard Formatting

by Dan Lurie (Apr 25th, 2007)

Sometimes even the best intentions of developers can't account for user preference, and after speaking with many other Mac users, this certainly seems to be the case with OS X's habitual tendency to preserve the formatting of text copied to the clipboard. For example: I copy text from OmniWeb: ...

Clipboard Killer

by Dan Lurie (Mar 2nd, 2007)

We've all been there– intending to paste a link to that hot new social network but instead exposing your social security number. Indeed, the clipboard can be a fickle and unforgiving mistress. After an unfortunate incident last night (which he won't elaborate on), my buddy Emory decided to ...

ShelfMenu - a menubar clipboard utility

by David Chartier (Jul 20th, 2006)

ShelfMenu is a menubar clipboard app that can store just about anything you can copy to Mac OS X's clipboard; images, URLs, text snippets, etc. Your clippings are stored into folders which you can create, rename and move - all while preserving anything you've already clipped to them. ShelfMenu ...

iClip Lite 2 Dashboard widget released

by David Chartier (Jun 16th, 2006)

iClip Lite, as we've mentioned in the past, is a free, widgetized version of the shareware iClip. The Lite widget version is "a multiple clipboard & scrapbook widget designed to improve your efficiency and productivity for most tasks you do on your computer". New in version 2 is: ...

Maximize your clipboard with CuteClips

by Dave Caolo (Mar 18th, 2006)

Don't you just get aggravated when you accidentally overwrite an item you had previously copied to the clipboard? CuteClips by brink software eliminates the problem. CuteClips will remember the last twelve items you copied to the clipboard. Simply hit the designated key combination (mouse jockeys ...

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