The clipboard expender, PopCopy, has been completely rewritten and released as version 2.0.

It is now fully compatible with Microsoft Office’s apps. The app’s rewritten code means that saves and loads more quickly and efficiently.

The Menubar drop-down menu now allows for the deletion of recent clips and offers previews of clipped images.

When activited, the app’s interface now shows three items:

The Preferences screen allows you to set the interface’s hotkey, turn the menubar display on or off and toggle automatic pasting:

PopCopy now also has an industrial-strength nag screen.

Personally, I prefer Jumpcut for greater simplicity, but PopCopy offers support for images which will appeal to some.

PopCopy is shareware (USD 14) and is available from the developer’s web site .popcopy, jumpcut, clipboard extender, helpful apps, productivity, clips

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).