gHacks technology news » paste text http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Copy Paste http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/21/copy-paste/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/21/copy-paste/#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:53:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7142 Copy Paste is probably one of those operations that almost every user does on a daily basis. The possibilities are almost endless, copying urls to paste them in emails, copying text to paste it in documents, copying images to paste them in image editors. Basically everything information can be copied and pasted with just a few keys on the keyboard. A quick how to copy and paste: A user can use the CTRL C combination to copy contents and CTRL V to paste the contents of the Windows Clipboard.

Copy Paste does have a few weaknesses though. If you copy rich text and paste it into a rich text editor the formatting will remain. The problem can be frustrating if the formatting has been used extensively and should not appear in the destination form. Lots of bold colored text does not look good in a scientific paper usually.

PureText is a small 13 Kilobyte software application for Windows that sits quietly in the Windows System Tray waiting for the user to copy text to the Clipboard. It does not convert the copied contents automatically but provides that option when pasting the contents of the Windows Clipboard.

Instead of pressing CTRL C CTRL V to copy paste the contents the user can define an alternative keyboard shortcut to paste the contents of the Clipboard without the formatting.

The default keyboard shortcut to paste the contents of the Windows Clipboard without formatting is Windows V but it can be changed to any other key combination with the Windows, Shift or Control key. Users who always want to get rid of the formatting could replace the CTRL V with that one.

PureText is compatible to most versions of Windows since Windows 95 up to Windows Vista. The copy paste software program uses roughly 3.5 Megabytes of computer memory.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/21/copy-paste/feed/ 0 Loop Typer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/06/loop-typer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/06/loop-typer/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 14:52:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4022 Did you ever face a situation where you had to type in the same phrase over and over again ? Besides from serving spammers as a way to automate their tasks I cannot think of an application were someone would need a tool that would paste the same text over and over again in a defined interval. I’m sure there are applications and it would be nice if you could help me out here: Loop Typer (via Shell Extension City) could be useful for.. ?

Loop Typer was created by Will Taylor who seems to have difficulties himself thinking of an application where Loop Typer could be useful. That’s a first definitely. The application itself requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 and provides the installer for the Framework as well as the installer for the application itself.

It does work flawlessly. The user enters a text in the text field and sets the interval to a value between 1 and 20 seconds. That interval can be extended in the options so that larger breaks between each paste are possible.

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The other two options that are available are the following. The user can select that enter is automatically pressed after each paste and he can define a time or loop constraint limit which means that the process ends after a certain time or amount of loops.

Let me know what you think about this application. I have a nice surprise for the user with the best suggestion!

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