Site of the Day for Monday, December 31, 2001
Software of the Month - Clipomatic
This month's software is a teeny-tiny program - 96 Kb zipped (why did they
bother?) which may prove as indispensable to the List's gentle members as
it is to the List.
Relying heavily on copy/paste operations to move text between applications,
the List had worked its way through a virtual forest of freeware to find a
single application which would allow it to do one simple thing - copy a
number of different selections to the clipboard in one program and then
paste these selections individually in another one. There was one caveat;
these operations had to be accessible from the keyboard, without employing
the mouse.
There are a legion of freeware clipboard utilities available but some are
large and unnecessarily complicated while others require 'mousing' to get
them in gear. The List was about to abandon the hunt as fruitless, when it
chanced upon exactly what it had been looking for - Clipomatic.
It offers 10 or more "clipboards" and uses the Windows keyboard shortcut of
'Control C' for copying, while another keyboard shortcut brings up the
list of stored items. From there it's a simple matter of a single keyboard
number or letter to paste the selection.
Remarkably, for such a small program, it has a few other features as well,
like the ability to retain what was placed on the clipboards either between
sessions or permanently, the latter coming in handy for boilerplate text.
It can also be programmed by the user to display the current date in
whatever format you fancy. It can also store a group of selections as a set
which can be called up for later use, such as HTML codes.
If you are in the market for a handy and useful substitute for the woefully
limited Windows Clipboard, then Clipomatic may just the thing. See for
yourself at:
http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml
A.M. Holm
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