Posts Tagged ‘clippings’

Jumpcut 0.6: Smarter shortcuts, handsome

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

jumpcut100pxSteve Cook has released an updated version of Jumpcut, his open source clipboard extender.

Version 0.6 is noticeably smarter about remembering your hotkey selection for activating the app and features a built-in auto-updater.

The app’s bezel has also been reworked. The transparency is now adjustable for greater readability:

jumpcut_newbezel

The Preferences have been worked over too, offering new options for a “Sticky” bezel and for selecting clips from the menubar icon:

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Jumpcut is freeware. You can read about it , get the latest update or the source code (currently still the previous version, 0.54) from Source Forge.

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CuteClips 1.2: A smarter clipboard

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

cuteclips100pxCuteClips is a small app that stores the last twelve entries in your clipboard.

It can store up images, URLs, text or files in a nice smoked glass dialog, complete with preview and is activated by a hotkey

A new version, released today, offers a smart improvement to the way you can select the clippings. In the past, you has to tab, or use the arrow keys or mouse to select the clip you wanted.

Now, hitting Control reveals the numbering of the clips, and hitting the corresponding Function key paste that entry in:

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There are other utilities that do that same thing, notably CopyPaste, which offers far richer features but is also far more expensive (USD 30). Quicksilver can do this too, but lacks the facility to make a clipping sticky and thus available forever (it doesn’t actually lack this — see Henning’s remarks in the comments).

CuteClips does the job for me, making my work in Mail.app and elsewhere faster and more efficient.

It costs only 5 euros (USD 6) and is available from the developer’s web site .

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