Dr. Mac's OS X Tip-of-the-Day 
Dr. Mac - Like the Clipboard? You'll like 20 clipboards (or more) even better.
By Bob LeVitus
It's finally a freely distributed software Friday again... and today's
freebie is a total pleasure.
Its programmer, Paul Haddad, says PTHPasteboard is a pasteboard buffer
application. He must be an engineer. If he were a marketing guy he'd
have said it's a multiple clipboard saver/rememberer/paster.
It remembers the last 20 items you copied or cut, then allows you to
paste any of them in any application at any time. You can paste via hot
key, the PTHPasteboard menu, or OS X Services, which I like a lot. As I
said yesterday, I like options. (Actually, I said I like the Option
key... but it's close enough for now.)
There's a PTHPasteboard window that shows the items the program is
currently remembering. Select an item and it is pasted into the current
active application. Again, you have options: You can select the item
with mouse, arrow keys, or the 0-9 keys.
PTHPasteboard also operates as an OS X service. If you install it in
any of the Applications folders (/Applications or Home/Applications),
you'll see the nifty Paste from PTHPasteboard item in the Services
menu. Select it from the menu or use its keyboard shortcut
(Command-Shift-V) and the Pasteboard window appears. You can then
select any item for pasting and it'll be pasted into the currently
active application.
P.S. Pressing Esc will dismiss the PTHPasteboard window without pasting
anything.
Hurrah for Paul Haddad, who says: "PTHPasteboard is free and will
always be free. If you'd like to donate money towards this and other
free PTH products please click the above button."
That button, and all his other neat freebie software including another
favorite of mine, PTHCPUMonitor, which displays CPU activity in the
menu bar using a plethora of neat icons as its display, can be found
here:
http://www.pth.com/
Check 'em all out. And if you like 'em, it wouldn't hurt to send the
guy a few bucks.
To discuss this tip (or anything you like) in Dr. Mac's OSXFAQ Forum, click
here:
http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=3070
Bob LeVitus is a leading authority on Mac OS and the author of 39 books,
including Mac OS X For Dummies and The Little iTunes Book.
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