Comments on: ClipX – minimalistic clipboard manager

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:05:11 +0000

@DataRat

Well, in this case usability i matter of personal taste. Didn’t fit mine.

As for memory usage I had plenty of trouble with ClipX, it has no protection from very large text chunks. I had experienced it chugging up to 500MB (!) of RAM and crashing for good in few cases.

By: The DataRat

The DataRat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:32:03 +0000

Re-using text is essential to much of my on-line activity. So a
good clipboard extender has become ESSENTIAL !

Have tried ~numerous~ clipboard extenders. The principle issue always
being retrieval. How easily can you access text on the list of saved
clips ?

Used Clipboard Help and Spell for a couple years. ( All the while
evaluating various other clipboard extenders. )

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/clipboardhelpandspell/index.html

But have switched to ClipX because it’s simpler and easier.

Only uses a little over 2-mb memory. Certainly acceptable on 64-bit
Vista with 4-gb of installed physical RAM. [ Other utilities and
applets I have running in the background use far more ! ]

Must totally disagree with you about ClipX’s “usability”. Switched
to it as my clipboard extender precisely because of it’s usability !
Pop-out my Windows taskbar, left click the ClipX notification tray
icon, and pick from the list of the most recent 25 saved text clips.
Don’t get more usable than ~that~ !

The DataRat

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:26 +0000

@Clipper

You are welcome. :) Be sure to hang around for reviews of few more I am going to try.

By: Clipper

Clipper — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:27:42 +0000

I’ve tried a lot of these, and actually this seems to be the best so far. Nice, simple, very usable. Thanks.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:46:16 +0000

@kelltic

Talk about class of software without leader app… There is suddenly too many to try and in this case I am not even sure I want it in long term. :)

By: kelltic

kelltic — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:44:47 +0000

Clip Cache. Very easy. I never know it is there until I need it. Then I click it up from the system tray and there is everything I’ve CTRL+C’d or CTRL+V’d. A word, a few lines of text, or graphics – anything at all that I’ve copied.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:42:58 +0000

@Mark Spenceer

Will take a look, but site seems down at moment.

By: Mark Spenceer

Mark Spenceer — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:13:16 +0000

I love the clipboard cache function in PhraseExpress. It’s a Freeware Autotext utility that also have a clipboard history saver.

I like that it can strip off text formatting if I want it to.

Mark

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:26:19 +0000

@JeeMan

Naturally. :) Yep, I went over all suggestions and Ditto-CP is likely the one I will try next. Features look interesting, will see how it goes for me.

By: JeeMan

JeeMan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:45:54 +0000

I am really happy to see that even if a clipboard manager is the kind of software you don’t get, you will at least give it a try! :-)

As for my personal experience (and as I previously mentionned in the comments from your other article) I am using Ditto-CP. I have been using it for maybe two years, and I never encountered any of the problems you mentioned.

I am really interested in the other articles you will write on this subject, it will allow me to compare from my personal experience. Thanks!