Comments on: What Did I Clip

By: Bob Alderete

Bob Alderete — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:57:59 +0000

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

By: TruerWords

TruerWords — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:26:09 +0000

Samâ€™s Clipboard Watcher

I missed this when Sam (DeVore) first released it a few days ago. Better late than never, right? Samâ€™s random musings Â» 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...

By: trece

trece — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:11:43 +0000

thanks!

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:48:36 +0000

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.

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:15:28 +0000

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,

to place the cursor just next to an error
hit a key combination for that particular type of error ("Ah, that's a no. 72!")
have the error number inserted at the cursor, and
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?

By: Jack Foster Mancilla

Jack Foster Mancilla — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:11:34 +0000

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