Posts Tagged ‘helpful app’

Jumpcut: Super slick clipboard extender

Friday, May 5th, 2006

jumpcut100pxSome time ago, matonmacs mentioned the utility Jumpcut in a comment on a post about the Cute Clips clipboard extender.

I’d forgotten about it, until I came across Ryan Irelan’s post about using Textpander and Jumpcut in web development.

Jumpcut is a nifty little menubar utility that keeps a history of your clipboard. Its Preferences allow you to specify how many past clippings it should remember and display, how often it should save the list and the keyboard hotkey.

Although you can access the clips from the menubar, pressing the hotkey brings up a bezel display:

jumpcut

You can cycle through the clips using the hotkeys and then drop in the one you want.

It can save you a lot of time in Mail.app and elsewhere.

All that’s missing is the option to make the selections “sticky” like you can in CuteClips.

Jumpcut is open-source and a universal binary. It is available from the developer’s web site .

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CRM4Mac: “Integrated” iCal, Apple Mail and Address Book

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

CRM4MacCRM4Mac brings iCal, Address book and Apple Mail together into one interface. It also allows you to link documents and log phone calls with particular contacts in your Address Book. A new version, CRM4Mac 2.0, has just been been released, featuring Spotlight support and other improvements.

CRM4Mac doesn’t modify the apps themselves, but simply combines them so that all your events and emails are displayed together, according to date by default. A screenshot from the developer’s website shows it in action:

CRM4MacInterface

It displays the Address Book contact linked to the highlighted email. A preview pane can be opened in the main window.

You will either love or hate this idea. People like Mike Salsbury, who feels that the integration in Ximian Evolution makes it better than Apple Mail would probably love it. Others, like me, who value the “purity” of working with mail and only mail in one app, with events and only events in another and so on, will be faintly appalled.

Reviews of earlier verisons of the software are likewise mixed. The developer’s website lists a number of testimonials. But the users’ reviews on MacUpdate, Versiontracker and on other blogs are not all positive. In any case, you have 30 days to trial a fully functional version if you want to test it out for yourself.

CRM4Mac costs USD 49.95 and comes in Panther and Tiger flavours. It is (UPDATE: June 2008 no longer ) available from the developer’s website.

P.S. CRM stands for “Customer Relationship Management”.

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