CuteClips is an expanded clipboard utility.

It can store up to twelve recently copied elements — images, URLs, text or files — in a nice smoked glass dialog, complete with preview.

Hitting a hotkey (Shift-Command-V by default) brings up the utility’s dialog:

Clicking on one of the stored entries, pastes it at the current position of the cursor.

You can also create “sticky” clips, by holding down the Option key while clicking on a current entry.

I like little productivity-enhancing apps like this because these helpful apps help me work faster in Mail.app and elsewhere.

A demo limited to three slots and with no access to the utility’s preferences is available from the developer’s web site. The full version costs 5 euros (c. USD 6).

CopyPaste, another extended clipboard utility, offers far richer features, but is also far more expensive (USD 30).

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CopyPaste + yType, the clipboard, snippet and general all-round productivity-enhancing tool that I used before I discovered Spell Catcher X, has been updated. It’s amazing how much these apps can speed up your keyboard work in Mail.app (and elsewhere).

The improved version contains bug-fixes for its clipboard, for yType and for other minor issues.

CopyPaste + yPaste costs USD 30. A 30-day free demo is available from the developer’s web site.

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Imagine a utility that bundles together the auto-expanding text snippet features of Textpander and the multiple clipboard functions of iClip.

CopyPaste + yType is it.

Like iClip or iSnip, it offers multiple clipboards and adds access through the contextual menu to make insertion even easier. It can also automatically record the history of the things that you have copied.

Like Textpander, this app offers predefined keyboard shortcuts for inserting blocks of frequently used text.

This makes working faster, of course, but also reduces the amount of errors in your typing. Further spelling errors are reduced by its ability to correct common spelling errors on the fly like Microsoft’s “autocorrect feature”.

The clipboard, text snippet features and preferences are all accessible through an icon in the Statusbar.

MacAddict Magazine describes it as “the turbo clipboard utility on steriods”. I’ve only been playing with CopyPaste for thirty minutes, but I can already see how this is going to make working in Apple Mail (and with text more generally) faster, more error-free and easier on the fingers.

CopyPaste is shareware (USD 30) and is available from the developer’s web site. It offers a thirty day free trial period during which you could play around with it and see if the utility lives up to its promise. That’s what I will be doing.

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Textpander has been updated with some nifty new features.

This time-saving (and finger-saving) utility stores snippets of text and images that you can insert in your typing with user-defined shortcuts. It’s one of my favorite OS X add-ons and saves me lots of time in Apple Mail and elsewhere.

The updated version features as new variable (%clipboard) allowing you to insert whatever is in the Clipboard into your snippets. Sweet.

It now imports snippets from other apps better and works more smoothly with Nisus Writer nlang files. Panther users will be pleased to learn that it now works in 10.3.9 as well. The version also adds French and German localizations.

You can get the updated version from the developer’s web site.

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