The American Balloon, a professional wrestler (Wrestling-related homepage at http://www.balloonsault.com) and Mac Shareware programmer, has released PopCopy 2. PopCopy is an application that sits in the menubar, and keeps a history of any and all text, images, or files that have been copied to the clipboard. The user can also select an item by pressing a user-defined (by default Command+Shift+V) hotkey combination, which presents the user with a menu to choose a previously copied item, and when the hotkey is released, places this item into the clipboard, and pastes it into the frontmost app.
PopCopy 2 was completely rewritten, sports new features like customizable hotkeys, a new hotkey interface which lets the user preview three items at once, and better item previewing in the menubar, letting you see a submenu with the full path of a file, a larger preview of an image, or a longer preview of text. PopCopy 2 also adds support for text from Microsoft Office.
Here’s how PopCopy works:
• Copy or Cut an item from any application. A file, picture, or text item. It shows in the MenuBar in truncated fashion.
• Copy another item. It shows in your MenuBar and the history of what you’ve copied (or cut) in a drop down menu. You can preview/store pictures, files, and text that was previously copied into the clipboard.
If you need to get back to the item you previously copied, you can do one of two things.
A: Use the PopCopy menu in the menubar to reselect your previously copied item.
B: Hold the hotkey (Command + Shift + V), then use your arrow keys to select the item.
PopCopy is offered as a trial download and a full version costs US$14.
View the video to see what PopCopy 2 can do via YouTube:
Direct link to video: http://www.popcopy.net/Movie.html
More info and download link here.
MacDailyNews Retake: Sheesh, why isn’t this in the OS already?! Anyway, this thing is exactly what the doctor ordered for us. Now we can just copy a quote from here, cut an image from there, copy the URL from over there, and use PopCopy’s menu to grab everything off our Clipboard while working in ExpressionEngine instead of tabbing around in Safari like lunatics all day. We’ve tried other “multiple clipboard” apps, but none works as effortlessly for us as PopCopy. If you are looking for a simple, usable multiple clipboard, try out this application. Ee can tell you that it works very well on Power PC- and Intel-based Macs: highly-recommended.
Also check out The American Balloon’s “Telekinesis,” an application that allows one to assign any keyboard key or key combination to any button on your Apple Front Row Remote. It costs $7 to register, and can be found here.
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Why isn’t this in the OS already?! PopCopy offers Clipboard history in your Mac OS X Menu Bar – June 09, 2006
His Telekinesis app looks cool too. I’d been wandering when someone would do something like that.
Second “article” about this program. SLOW NEWS DAY.
How long before Apple comes out with their own version without paying royalties to the pop copy programer?
Apple reserves the menu bar area for their own use/expansion and has said so many times in developer material.
Programs that make use of this area often conflict with Mac OS X changes and updates, have been know to cause a security issue at times.
Although a nice idea, use at your own risk and un-install it (and any other OS hacks/haxies/root level app installs) before a OS update.
Clone that boot drive to a external occassionally as well by visiting Carbon Copy Cloner forums free software/advice.
Did anybody else check out his website about his pro wrestling? Quite an interesting fellow. I’m not sure I’ll ever meet anyone who’s not only a pro wrestler but also a Mac Software author. Wowzers. Cool apps, tho.
Jumpcut has been doing exactly this for a long time, since 2004 to be precise. This is good, too, and I totally agree it ought to be in the OS, but please don’t pretend it hasn’t been available. Jumpcut is here.
I’m a little disappointed in our MacDailyNews overlords. I believed they were on top of all things Mac. But their new infatuation with a multiple clipboard application is perplexing. Multiple clipboard apps have been around for a very long time and there are plenty to choose from–like PTHPasteboard, iClip, iClip Lite, CopyPaste, KoolClip, Clipper, Pasteboard Recorder, shadowClipboad, Clipboard Historian, Butler, and the list goes on and on and on. The way MacDailyNews is making it out is that the author of PopCopy has come up with some revolutionary idea and implemented it in a revolutionary manner. Not. PopCopy may be very good, but is it a news story? Why haven’t we seen stories on all the other clipboard managers? Many of them send press releases. I’m beginning to think MacDailyNews has some vested interest in PopCopy. But I still love them anyway.
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The American Balloon has tig ol bitties. I had to double take. huge.
It’s macdailynews’s site, so if they like/want to promote a particular app who cares? Maybe the American Balloon threatened multiple Body Slams if they didn’t promote the app.
CopyPaste and CopyPasteX have been around for years. Not exactly the same thing – certainly more of an ‘old school’ UI – but useful.
Agree with MDN – this sort of thing (clipboard with history – preferably editable) is over-due for the OS. With Spotlight and Smart Folders, this should be a no-brainer. OK, maybe it would require a real folder to contain a database of stuff not on your HD.
Yeah … the guy has a lot of slack skin flopping around. Must have been exceptionally rotund at one time.
I got four words for you:
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LOVE.
BLOWING.
UP.
After seeing the YouTube video demo, I’m gonna give this a try. The hot key option is cool…..
I agree with Auctoris. It seems like MDN and Popcopy have shared interests indeed. How much are they paying you?
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Sorry to bother you, but, as an Italian reader, living in northern Italy but born and raised in Naples, I’d just like to point out that the beautiful music that accompanies the video is an old neapolitan song about how a proper cup of coffee should be made. It’s sung in neapolitan! Does anybody know who sings this nice version?
Thank you.
Paolo
Asti – Italy
OS X can’t to this? Good grief, 10.4 also can’t make my morning coffee, mow the lawn, take out the garbage, or change a diaper. Is this empirical evidence that OS X is worthless and Windows is superior, albeit Windows can’t make my morning coffee, mow the lawn, take out the garbage, or change a diaper, either. I suppose next week’s discussion will be how many angels can dance on an Intel versus AMD microprocessor.
In totally unrelated news:
Four chairs were found smashed today in Redmond…..police currently are investigating. The only clue left was a small balloon…….
Alternativey, try Xshelf which does similar thing but is free. It does not clutter the menubar but uses a self-hiding windoid on the side of screen. Works well, but fewer bells&whistles;. Plus it allows you to “cut” files to move them rather than just copy. And it’s free. Downside is no keyboard navigation, but i can live with that.
Paolo-
It’s the Bruno Tommaso Orchestra’s version.
I love the song too.
-Balloon
Static Mesh’s caution (regarding how programs that use the menu bar can cause problems when upgrading system software) could be borne out of a prior experience of his and others with some badly done haxies. But it is a over-wide generalization that doesn’t properly apply to well-conceived applications.
I’ve used WolfClock (a cool little freeware app) through many, many system upgrades with no problem. This is to be expected for software that is simply a straightforward application which can be auto-launched during startup. The same can be expected for PopCopy which works the same way.
More importantly, Mac Daily News is right to have 1) made the 2.0 release the subject of another article, and 2) rhetorically ask why it isn’t already part of OS X. PopyCopy is a extremely nice add-on that every Mac owner should have. It’s small (252 KB download), very Mac-like, and very, very helpful.
http://www.clipmarks.com/
I’m still waiting for taskmenubar…
Best classic app ever. Period.
Thank you, Balloon! I should have known it was an italian performer…
And compliments on the very good software you developed.
Paolo
Hello MDN, not everybody needs a multi-clipboard app. I sure don’t, and I don’t want the added complexity cluttering up my OS. That’s why there are application developers, so they can provide for your needs. If Apple included every single thing that every single person wanted, then OS X would be a bloated mess, and there would be no reason for application developers to exist. If PopCopy suits your needs, then use it. But don’t whine about how it should be in the OS. It absolutely should not be in the OS. Don’t you understand Apple’s philosophy by now? Less is more. If you want more complexity, get it yourself, but don’t expect everyone else to have to suffer through the pain that comes with adding the kitchen sink into the operating system.
Unbelievable.
KoolClip is free
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17754
I like Butler’s pasteboard the best…