We’ve just re-released our ClipMagic product as freeware! ClipMagic extends the Windows clipboard by keeping all the items you copy to the clipboard and making them quickly available to paste back into other applications. I depend on ClipMagic when I’m copying and pasting bits of text around the place. Without it you only have access to one item at a time and that can be a real pain. I’m often having to paste more than one piece of text into an email, script or html file and without ClipMagic I’d have to jump back and forth between the source and target windows. Sometimes the text comes from more than one window and it gets awkward. Well with ClipMagic I can just copy each item, knowing that each copy won’t obliterate the last, and later I can paste them all in without leaving the application I’m working on.

ClipMagic has a really cool feature called PastePicker which I assign to the CTRL+V shortcut – the paste key. Now when I hit CTRL+V I get a little menu of the most recent clips (I have it set to the 10 most recent) and I use the arrow keys to choose the one I want. The PastePicker menu pops up next to the caret in whatever application I’m working in – so I don’t even have to leave the application to get recent clips. Makes life a lot easier.

I also use ClipMagic to store snippets of info I find on the web. When I see something useful I just highlight it and hit CTRL+C or Edit/Copy. It’s speedier than creating another bookmark, especially if I just want a piece of the page, rather than the whole page. ClipMagic automatically stores the URL of the page that the clip came from so that later I can get back to the source page if I want to. I have filters set up for different kinds of clips so that when I hit CTRL+C the clip is filed away in a suitable folder.

Well we wanted more people to benefit from ClipMagic so it’s now free! You can download it here.