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Clipboard Watcher

What is it

ClipboardWatcher is intended to be a one-trick-pony, though like many applications I am sure it will grow into a bloated beast. It’s one trick is this. It sits in the background and watches the clipboard for changes, if there is a new text item it will append the plain text (along with some optional information: timestamp and frontmost application name) to the AppendFile.

Read about the background of the application at O’Reilly Net.

Screen Shot


Features

Things It Does

Things It Will Do Soon

Things It Might Do

Pie in the Sky

Things it will not do

Cost

Free for now, but who knows… if you want to make a donation towards a feature or just because you think you might be helped out by this application then use the paypal donate button. Otherwise, do something nice for someone you know, ‘pay it forward’

Where can I get it

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  1. Jack Foster Mancilla 04.04.05 / 12pm
    1

    Sam,

    I have sent the link of this tool to several people. I think it is great!

    The main reason this tool is so great is that you took the time to address a single persons request. That request has ramifications for many others of us, that never even thought about a tool like that, or thought about, then forgot about it.

    The only suggestion I have is that the tool capture to an RTF file, then the tool could also capture images from some documents and things like that. …

    Still it is a great little thing for me, a collector of little things.

    Thanx Jack

  2. Guy 04.04.05 / 4pm
    2

    Here is a request for Sam: I am an editor of biomedical papers for authors for whom English is a second langauge. They make the same errors, time and time again, and I spend half my life adding notes into their manuscripts on when to use ‘the’ rather than ‘a’. There is a library of perhaps 100 most common errors.

    I would love an app, double byte-enabled, that would allow me, while editing in Word,

    1. to place the cursor just next to an error
    2. hit a key combination for that particular type of error (“Ah, that’s a no. 72!”)
    3. have the error number inserted at the cursor, and
    4. insert the description of that error, from a predefined library, into a separate text file.

    Embellishments might be to allow highlighted text (ie. the author’s erroneus text and my correction – and note that I use Word’s Track Changes function) to be copied into the separate text file just in front of the description, so the author sees his error, my correction of it, and the explanation for it.

    Such a system would be a tremendouse time saver for me, and a tremendous education for the authors, who all thirst to improve their English.

    How does that sound?

  3. Jon 04.05.05 / 5am
    3

    Just read the O’Reilly article and was impressed – just used the app – even more so. Does exactly what is says on the tin – nice and simply.

    Nice work.

  4. trece 04.05.05 / 9am
    4

    thanks!

  5. TruerWords 04.06.05 / 7am
    5

    Sam’s Clipboard Watcher

    I missed this when Sam (DeVore) first released it a few days ago. Better late than never, right? Sam’s random musings » What Did I Clip : What is it ClipboardWatcher is intended to be a one-trick-pony, though like many applications I am sure it will…

  6. Bob Alderete 04.06.05 / 8am
    6

    No tech babble here. You always strive to make the world a better place for others. So I’m impressed but not surprised with the positive reception of your new tool. More developers should be so motivated.

    –Uncle Bob