The Windows clipboard can store a single text phrase in its memory, once a new phrase is copied to the clipboard the old one is lost. If you want to copy two different text phrases for instance you need to copy the first, paste it somewhere, copy the second and paste it as well. A tool that would save more than one record at a time would optimize the process considerably.
Clipdiary, which was mentioned at Tech Yard, is such a program. It stores all plain text and rich text phrases in the clipboard as well as images in the clipboard until you delete the entry in the clipboard or a set limit of stored entries is reached. That limit is set to 3000 but you can change it from 0 (unlimited) to a number of your choosing. I personally think that 3000 is way to high because it would take ages to find the correct phrase that you are looking for, some users might find it useful nevertheless.
CTRL + C and CTRL + V work the same way as before, if you press CTRL + V the last saved phrase or image gets pasted into the current text field. The new keyboard shortcut CTRL + D opens the program interface where older entries can be picked and pasted.
It would be nice if there would be an option to pick previous items per hotkey as well. Some shortcuts are shown in the options but those did not work for me. I have set the maximum amount of saved entries to 30. The clipboard can be a security risk if you save 3000 entries, think of passwords, urls and other personal data.
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I use Charu3 less known clipboard extender.
It has plenty of features:
- stock mode “copy n items and paste n items”
- folders
- permanent items
- history (you can define size of it)
- hotkeys
- macro (date-time, text in clipboard, text selected)
- plugins (replace plugin, for example may be used for quoting)
It lacks rich text or image support, but I don’t need it anyway.
Drawback – it got some bugs and don’t on good terms with some apps. But it proves itself VERY useful. I use it for 5 years.
http://keiziweb.com/down/c3070607u_E.zip if you interested.
Ha! 3000 clips is way too many?
But I have 3477 clips totaling 18.4mb in my clipboard program.
I use Clipmate (http://www.thornsoft.com), the best program of this type that I have tried. It isn’t free though.
I can’t see how anyone can function without a program like this. Anytime I want to copy something form a webpage, I just grab it. It even remembers what URL the clip came from so I can return. It doesn’t lose the clip if I reboot either (or if the system crashes).
I use Ditto from http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/ more features and versatile with hotkeys etc
Another vote for Ditto. Hotkeys, can deal (and be configured which ones to keep) with multiple data formats, you can edit clipped text, search clipped text, configure history by either count or size, permanent items, folders, etc.
The only problem I have with it is not having the ability to exclude copied data from specific programs (e.g. password manager) from the history, but since it does allow to selectively erase items from the history it’s more an annoyance than a huge problem.
Since Opera can’t run either Surfulator or Evernote, I have it save .TXT and pictures with good old (free) Yankee Clipper, and use Firefox for serious clipping.
For most offline use, Polyedit quickly replaced Notepad, Wordpad and the Clipboard.
I tried to use Evernote in the past. Man, that was a mish-mash of an application that made no logical sense!
The thing I dislike about many sourceforge apps is that they are poorly documented. Help files are minimal, if they exist at all. Screenshots are sparse, if they exist at all. I looked at the the Ditto app and it seems pretty basic. But without installing it, there isn’t any way to really figure out the total functionality.
Martin – It took me 45 seconds to do this post from when I clicked submit. I have mentioned how slow your site is before. Are others experiencing this slowness also? If so, it could affect whether people want to post to your site.
Here is the tracerout I ran:
Hop IP Address Host Name Sent Recv RTT Av RTT Min RTT Max RTT % Loss
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5 151.164.191.67 ex2-p10-0.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net 1 1 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 0.000%
6 213.200.66.245 so-0-1-2.sjc11.ip.tiscali.net 1 1 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 0.000%
7 89.149.186.65 xe-0-0-0.fra20.ip.tiscali.net 1 1 172 ms 172 ms 172 ms 172 ms 0.000%
8 77.67.64.18 hetzner-gw.ip.tiscali.net 1 1 172 ms 172 ms 172 ms 172 ms 0.000%
9 213.239.240.241 hos-bb1.juniper2.rz8.hetzner.de 1 1 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 0.000%
10 213.239.242.38 gi.4.1.rs3k4.rz8.hetzner.de 1 1 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 0.000%
11 78.46.39.177 static.177.39.46.78.clients.your-server.de 1 1 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 0.000%
It looks slow on your end. Maybe you need a new host?
Jojo can you do me a favor and try again, I made some changes.
test post
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OK much better. Took only 6.7 secs to make the post! Hope this holds up.
Hop IP Address Host Name Sent Recv RTT Av RTT Min RTT Max RTT % Loss
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4 216.102.176.224 bb1-10g2-0.snfcca.sbcglobal.net 1 1 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 0.000%
5 151.164.95.244 [Unknown] 1 1 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 0.000%
6 64.215.195.241 [Unknown] 1 1 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 0.000%
7 64.209.102.178 [Unknown] 1 1 63 ms 63 ms 63 ms 63 ms 0.000%
8 74.208.1.86 te-2-2.bb-b.hs.mkc.us.oneandone.net 1 1 63 ms 63 ms 63 ms 63 ms 0.000%
9 74.208.1.90 te-2-1.bb-b.slr.lxa.us.oneandone.net 1 1 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms 0.000%
10 74.208.1.115 te-1-2.gw-dists-r5-a.slr.lxa.oneandone.net 1 1 110 ms 110 ms 110 ms 110 ms 0.000%
11 74.208.1.134 vl-987.gw-ps2.slr.lxa.oneandone.net 1 1 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms 0.000%
12 74.208.41.2 perfora.net 1 1 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms 0.000%