Ordinarily, you can’t copy text from a Windows popup or error message. GetWindowText is a tiny portable app that will let you grab the text from any window so you can easily Google that message. More »
Mac: If you love the tap and copy functionality of iOS and want it on your home computer, PopClip is a simple app that adds similar functionality to your copying, pasting and other functions. More »
Mac: We’ve mentioned before how Ctrl+Shift+V in Windows can strip the formatting from text and paste it in almost any application, but if you have a Mac, FormatMatch is the menubar utility for you. More »
Windows: Sharing a good quote or image on Facebook or sending it to Simplenote takes an annoying amount of clicks. Click.to lets you pipe just about anything you copy to your clipboard to a number of desktop apps and online services. More »
USB memory sticks (also known as flash drives or thumb drives) are handy little storage devices that make transferring files between computers very easy. Beginning computer users may not know how to use a USB memory stick, however, so this guide is for you to share with them. More »
There may not be a pure keyboard shortcut to do it (actually, there is — Oz ed), but Mac OS X does allow copying and pasting of files—by using the mouse and the Option key. Normally, the default system behaviour would just move a file that’s dragged by the mouse, but doing this will cause it to make a copy of the file, just as though you had used the copy/paste functions in an app. More »
One of the nicer but relatively unknown features of Mac OS X is its ability to create text clippings. Text clippings are basically selections of text that have been saved for later, and can be dropped into another document (or even a form box in a browser) at any time. It’s a bit like the layby version of Copy and Paste, and all you have to do to create one is drag some highlighted text to the desktop. More »
