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Dec 18, 07 - 11:45 am Comment from: TowerTone

I don't care to deal with Chronos anymore until they make Soho Notes work under Leopard rather than having to upgrade.

I don't appreciate my data being held hostage.

sonsabitches

yes but can it enable cut-n-paste in finder?!?

iClip??

This sounds incredibly useful (at least to me). Apart from Tower Tone's bad experience, has anyone else dealt with this company or their products enough to offer an opinion?
Thanks!

The only thing I need one of these for is iWork, and this app doesn't work with iWork (shapes copied from iWork are "unknown"). I'll pass.

I'm still using PopCopy with Tiger, which I can't imagine living without. Unfortunately, it appears to be abandonware and hasn't been updated for Leopard. Anyone know anything about its fate or of other similar apps?

Dec 18, 07 - 02:21 pm Comment from: cogitoergomac

I am a huge fan of JumpCut, which is free, but I am trying out iClipboard. I have not had Tower Tone's bad experience with Chronos, but I am not using that product. I am a registered owner of StickyBrain, and have always found their customer service quite good, but have stopped using SB in favor of other approaches to GTD.

I was a fan of PopCopy as well. It seems that there's currently no "standard" way of writing clipboard apps, so one of the others will do essentially the same things, you might not like the interface it's chosen.

This one gives an error message attempting to install something into your System Preferences pane... what's THAT about?

Dec 18, 07 - 03:39 pm Comment from: appaulmac

Butler has a multiple clipboard feature. Might be worth a look. Plus it has many other neat features too.

All these guy did was copy similar programs like PTHPasteboard which is for the most part free - There is a Pro license but the free version has all the general features you need.

@ Gilgamesh
PTHPasteboard works in Leopard.

There is heaps of these programs that you can use for free, so there is not need to pay $19.99 or $29.99 for one.

Dec 18, 07 - 11:22 pm Comment from: cogitoergomac

I am not sure it is worth the asking price, though its graphic support is nice, but I confirmed the problem with iWork shapes that WrongAgain noted above. Between JumpCut and Quicksilver, I am probably happy with current solutions.

JumpCut doesn't work for iWork either. I need to go through all these apps one day and tag their features because there's a little to like about each, but no one has taken a Jobsian look at the whole mish-mash and created something WONDERFUL yet.

Things DO look better than they used to, though, because when I first checked years ago, there were only two pasteboard apps I could find that worked in OSX.

Dec 20, 07 - 03:55 pm Comment from: cogitoergomac

Chronos support claims that the iWork clippimg--while not previewable in iClipboard--still works, and that seems to be the case. That is at least an improvement over JumpCut, which doesn't preserve a copy of the iWork shape at all.

More problematically, iClipboard seems very flaky, sometimes simply refusing to be activated from the sidetab, unless I turn it off in the preference pane, and then restart it. Even then, in some apps, the sidetab did not disappear. Flaky.