April 26, 2013
On the Internet, we go through a lot of phases. The paste-and-share model is a relatively new and popular one. The most popular of this breed of website is definitely Pastebin. It's been around for more than 10 years, but it became increasingly relevant in the past three. As it always goes, it has spawned plenty of competitors and imitators. But is someone else doing Pastebin better than Pastebin itself?
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April 17, 2013
If you routinely copy and paste text and other items on your Mac and iOS devices, you will no doubt agree that Apple's default clipboard features are extremely lacking. Both the iOS and OS X clipboards only allow you to save one clipping at a time. Each clipping you make gets overridden by a new one. As a writer, I rely on a couple of third-party clipboard managers that help me stay productive in the work that I do.
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January 5, 2013
Quickly find and copy obscure symbols, then post them into any program. Symbol Caddy is among those long-forgotten class of Mac apps - the dashboard widget. Which is a shame, because it's a widget that is sincerely useful. Imagine you're writing about currencies, and need to compare the dollar ($) to the euro (€), and as such need quick access to both symbols. If you're American, where do you find the euro symbol?
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December 22, 2012
Copy and paste is one of the best features we have at our fingertips, especially when combined with keyboard shortcuts. You can’t argue that copying and pasting is one of the most common things we all do, no matter what technical skill you might have. But there has always been a gap in the copy and paste method. That is that once you copy something, you better intend to paste it somewhere else right away or you might forget and overwrite it.
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December 16, 2012
It only took me one or two disasters in losing huge blocks of copied text to cave in and download a third-party clipboard manager for Windows. While there are many, like ClipTrap, I've found that plenty of them have poor interfaces or indexing options that are not very featureful. Just the other day, I stumbled across a new one by the name of Save.me. At first, Save.me doesn't come across as a clipboard manager.
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December 5, 2012
The clipboard is one of the invisible but most used features of our Windows computers. But satisfied with the way it handles any copy-paste operations, we let it be…rarely fiddling with it to change its default operation. Come to think of it, it is a bit strange because copy-paste operations take place throughout the day, almost as an unconscious behavior, and always repeatedly. It may make sense to use a clipboard manager which will at least cut the repetitions of CTRL+C and CTRL+V.
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November 30, 2012
Pastebin is recognized Internet-wide as the place to go to paste your data and code snippets. Many people probably know of the service through releases by groups like LulzSec, but it serves a much greater purpose than just dumping hashed passwords and email lists. Pastebin.com is useful in any scenario where you've got a ridiculous chunk of text that you need to spit out in a clean and efficient way.
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September 26, 2012
The clipboard is something we use probably every few minutes, but seldom see. Like an invisible help it stays out of the way and carries whatever we cut and copy to every corner of our computer. Clipboards have broken free from the boundaries of the desktop and have gone online. And just like their elder cousins, online clipboards have uses we usually ignore in favor of more visible mediums like email and social media.
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September 19, 2012
Paste any image or text to any folder in your computer, as a file. PasteAsFile is a simple Windows program that makes your clipboard that much more useful, and it's a dream for people who love collecting images or quotes in folders. By default you can copy an image and paste it into any program that can handle images. If you want to save the file, you can do so from within an image editor.
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September 11, 2012
There are a lot of ways to trick out your Windows clipboard. Some of the most common revolve around the idea of extending the clipboard so that it can hold numerous different things for you to paste. We've done an article before about some of the best clipboard managers, so if that interests you then check those out.
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