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Google Cloudboard Shares Data Between Gmail, Other Google Apps

2:45AM Adam Pash | Google appears to be testing a new tool called Cloudboard, a service designed to act as a clipboard that shares data between Gmail, Google Docs and other Google applications. More »

ClipChain Copies Multiple Text Strings For Easy Pasting

8:00AM Dustin Luck | Windows only: ClipChain allows you to copy many strings of text from different places in one document or from multiple applications to form a text chain which can be pasted where you need it to go. More »

Turn Double Right-Click Into A Quick Clipboard Paste Shortcut

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Nakul writes in with a useful script that quickly pastes content from the clipboard into any application with nothing more than a double-click of your right mouse button. More »

CopyPasteTool Is A Tiny, Dead-Simple Clipboard Helper

2:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Lightweight utility CopyPasteTool saves multiple strings of clipboard text, and then cycles between them easily using the keyboard. More »

Create A Hotkey To Paste Plain Text In Microsoft Word

8:00AM The How-To Geek | Pasting text from web pages into Microsoft Word can be a serious pain—all you wanted was the text, but it copies the formatting. Reader Wille writes in with a quick tip to make it simpler. More »

Friendpaste Is A Code-Friendly Text Sharing Tool

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Friendpaste is a web-based clipboard tool that can quickly shares snippets of plain text and computer code with friends or co-workers. Friendpaste supports simple text sharing for revision, or you can lock your pastes against viewing and editing with a password. You can use formatting for dozens of different kinds of code, and it has a revision and annotation system so the friends you share your code with can leave smarter comments. One of the great code-centric features is the ability to leave a comment based on the line number of the code you are reviewing making it easier to reference comments to their appropriate place. If you have a trick or service up your sleeve for sharing your clipboard contents with friends and colleagues, sound off in the comments below.Thanks Steve! Friendpaste More »

xNeat Clipboard Manager Adds Sticky Copies, Google Search To Clipboard

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Free clipboard utility xNeat Clipboard Manager is a lightweight, agile utility for those who do their fair share of text wrangling. Much like other clipboard managers, including ControlC and ClipX, xNeat can track all your copied text, folders, and files, and allow you to call them up again with a keyboard shortcut. xNeat’s unique features are allowing you to make certain copies “sticky,” so they’re always available for quick pasting, and utilising Google to both search and translate copied terms. The big drawback is a lack of image handling, available in similar products, but for those shuffling around a good deal of text, xNeat draws a tiny amount of memory for a helpful function. xNeat Clipboard Manager is a free download for Windows systems only. xNeat Clipboard Manager [via FreewareGenius.com] More »

Closing Microsoft Office’s Annoying Clipboard Bar

10:00PM Lifehacker US Edition | As anyone who works in an industry that uses Microsoft Office exclusively can tell you, there are certain Office annoyances that grate on your nerves over time. For me, one of the biggest Office annoyances is the Clipboard bar that decides to dock itself to the side of whichever Office application I had the misfortune of using Ctrl+C in. More »

Clipper Service Saves Selected Text to a File

1:30AM Gina Trapani | Mac OS X only: You already know you can select text in any application on your Mac and drag it to the Desktop to create an instant file with its contents in it. The MacTipper Blog takes saving text snippets to the next level with the Clipper service, which sends text to a file saved in a “Notes” folder in your home directory. Download Clipper and save it to ~/Library/Services/ (you may need to create that directory, I did), and log out and back into your Mac. Then, from any Cocoa application, you can select Clipper from the Services menu to save selected text to Spotlight-friendly, dated plain text file. This method is slightly better than the drag-and-drop approach because you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it; but it does not work with Firefox (Clipper is grayed out), which is a huge bummer. Clipper is a free download for Mac only. Save Selected Text To a TXT File [The MacTipper Blog] More »