The creator of the well acclaimed Display Fusion has created a new application called Clipboard Fusion which monitors the clipboard and removes formatting from copied text automatically if enabled. When you normally copy text from a website to an email or Rich Text Editor all the formatting will be still visible at the destination. I always copied the text to Notepad first and then to the destination if I wanted to get rid of the formatting because removing it from the destination would simply take to much time.
Clipboard Caching Utility
The Windows clipboard function is not really practicable. It stores only the last text string that you have copied and once you copy another one the previous one is not longer available. It happened more than once that I lost a text phrase that I still needed because I accidentally copied another item to the clipboard.
Extend the Windows Clipboard
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.
The Network Clipboard
I’m using a desktop PC and a Toshiba notebook at home, sometimes both at the same time which is the case when I write an article about Windows Vista. The desktop PC is running Windows XP and I use the notebook with Windows Vista to test what I’m writing about. I do my research on the Windows XP PC however and find it convenient to use the clipboard across the network.
Replace the Windows Clipboard with Ditto
The Windows Clipboard is absolutely awful, it lacks so many features that I really do not know where to begin listing them. Ditto on the other hand is an open source replacement for the Windows clipboard that adds functionality to the clipboard function. Ditto makes it easy to save any type of information to the clipboard including the most usual data types such as text, images and code.
