ArsClip makes your clipboard more useful than ever before
Posted: February 09, 2013
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Have you ever copied something you needed, forgot you did it, then copied something over it and pasted that instead of what you originally meant to copy? Instead of going back and finding your original text, now everything you copy is all in one place.
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Have you ever copied something you needed, forgot you did it, then copied something over it and pasted that instead of what you originally meant to copy? Instead of going back and finding your original text, now everything you copy is all in one place.
Few operations are more ubiquitous than copying and pasting. It often seems like Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are ingrained into our muscle memory. But isn't it odd that your powerful, modern, powerhouse of a computer can remember only the very last thing you copied? Wouldn't it be better if it could keep a running log of everything you copy, letting you pick any one of your recently copied snippets for pasting? ArsClip is a free, tiny utility that promises to do that, and much more.
ArsClip is delightfully low-key and unobtrusive, calling to mind other classic utilities like IrfanView. It comes with an installer, but you can also use it as a portable app without installing anything. Once you run it, it sits in your system tray and quietly listens to whatever it is you copy. Ctrl-V still works as usual, instantly pasting the last thing you copied. But the moment you want to paste in an older item, just hit ArsClip's special hotkey, and up pops a menu with your recently copied items. Each item gets a hotkey (1 through E), and can be pasted in with just a single keystroke. You can also use the arrow keys to navigate the menu, or click an entry with the mouse.
Of course, you may not always want to keep a log of whatever you copy. This is particularly important when it comes to passwords, for example. Fortunately, ArsClip makes it very easy to exclude certain applications from its watch list. It took me just a few seconds to tell ArsClip not to watch what I copy from KeePass, and that was it: My passwords were safe again.
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