I’ve used many clipboard managers for the Mac from iClip to PopCopy. The latter is the one I stuck with. It was simple, out of the way, and quick.

The good folks at PopCopy have just updated its wonderful software and now have added an extremely useful feature, Hotkey. “Hotkey?” you ask. Yes, hot keys are nothing new and yes they’ve been around for some time; however, PopCopy’s unique use of its Hotkey makes it powerful and – gasp! – useful.

With most hot key programs, you’re just stuck with what’s in the clipboard and not able to scan its contents. PopCopy went and took the Apple+Tab key combo concept and added it to its feature set for its Hotkey. When you depress the hot key combo (Shift+Apple+V), you’ll see three small windows in the middle of your screen (see figure) that displays your three most recent captures. Text, image, or objects in the finder (such as a Word document), are all shown if in the queue. Keep cycling through the hot key combo and older captures appear. When you’ve found the clip you need (in the middle window), let go of the hot keys and simply paste. That’s it. How useful is that?

Further improvements include full preview in the drop down menu and is now fully Office compatibility. No more issues with that sneaky Microsoft stuff. Catch PopCopy’s movie for full details on the new and improved PopCopy 2.

For a mere $14 (or ¥1605 for those in Japan), you really can’t find a more useful and now powerful clipboard manager.

One Response to “PopCopy 2 Clipboard Manager Gives the Hotkey Extreme Power”

1. MacRoxr Says:
   November 20th, 2006 at 21:16

   Try PTHPasteboard http://pth.com/products/pthpasteboard/ it let’s you do all that and more for free.