The Path to Zen

Yankee Clipper

A nice free clipboard tool I’ve been using for a couple of months. It sits on the tool tray quietly, capturing the clipboard content everytime you copy something to it. The previous content is not overwritten, but rather is kept in a history list. You can bring up the Yankee Clipper window at any time with a hotkey, pick an entry from the history, and double click to bring it to the clipboard. As the cream on top, my favorite feature is “shoot”. It allows you to select an entry, press F8 (or click on a toolbar icon), switch to the application where you want the entry to go to, and just wait for a couple of more seconds — ta-da! the text is “shot” over to the target application as if it is typed in.

[edit - 04/30/2005] since my original post, the developer of Yankee Clipper has created a more powerful commercial version, YCX, which charges a meager $14.95. The freeware verion, YC3, is still accessible from the same web site.