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Clipboard Managing-Which one?
ha14:
While searching I found Global Clipboard
http://www.globalclipboard.com/
Here is more details plus a giveaway
http://www.techishare.com/blog/softwares/giveaway-of-powerful-global-clipboard-manager/
cyberdiva:
When I looked, I found ClipMate the best, and I've never seen anything to give me any cause to reconsider.
-Dormouse (May 06, 2010, 04:52 AM)
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+1
ChalkTrauma:
Didn't see anyone mention CLCL yet ( http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html ).. been using it for years.. :Thmbsup:
tranglos:
When I looked, I found ClipMate the best, and I've never seen anything to give me any cause to reconsider.
I found Dittoto be the best free program at the time, and would be very interested to know if anyone thinks there a a better free alternative to it now.
-Dormouse (May 06, 2010, 04:52 AM)
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ClipMate and Ditto are both "clipboard managers" or "extenders", but I think they have very little in common. Someone comfortable with one may find the other unhelpful.
I suppose the free alternative to ClipMate is Mouser's Clipboard Help and Spell. Both are great if you need to categorize your clips, but in my experience the price for this is some encumbrance in accessing individual pieces of text.
Ditto is awesome if you don't care about categories, but just want to bring back previous clips with minimum keypresses (and no mouse). The instant incremental search really shines, especially in that it works transparently with substrings (while ClipMate scans only from the beginning of the string IIRC). It is probably not too helpful with non-textual content, e.g. images, but if you write a lot and use a lot of repetitive phrases, Ditto might be the one to try.
On edit: I only wish someone would recompile Ditto (C++) to remove the networking feature and to enable choosing font for the incremental search display - the text at bottom is entirely too tiny for my 40+ eyes.
rjbull:
Didn't see anyone mention CLCL yet ( http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html ).. -ChalkTrauma (May 06, 2010, 02:38 PM)
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DC tips and tutorial thread here: [GER/ENG] CLCL Clipboardmanager Forum
I too mostly use ArsClip, but sometimes CHS, and I have licenses for ClipCache Pro and for Clipmate. It's possible to find an old free version of ClipCache on the Web, but current versions are payware.
ha14, I think it depends on how many features you want, and how accessible you want them. Mostly, I only want to retain clipboard history for a while, and have it deleted on FIFO basis. ArsClip is great because it makes that basic usage easy, while the advanced features are still readily accessible on the rarer occasions I need them. Some of the others put maybe too much emphasis on the advanced features, rather at the expense of usability of the basic ones.
Not all support things like RTF formatting, so you may have to try several to find one that suits you well. I see that Visual Clipboard Pro supports Unicode - that isn't universal, either.
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