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Last week, I picked shadowClipboard as the PotW due to its ease of use and simple interface. The comments to that article pointed me to PTHPasteboard, another multiple clipboard utility. After using the two side by side quite a bit this past week, I must say that I clearly prefer PTHPasteboard (though that doesn't mean that shadowClipboard is a bad program; PTHPasteboard just matches my work style a bit better).

PTHPasteboard can track 20 objects (or more, if you use the Prefs to up the limit!), and does so with a small (resizable) floating window. When you click on one of the save locations, the data is immediately copied and pasted into the appliation that was active when PTHPasteboard was activated. In addition, you can easily create keyboard shortcuts for the first 10 buffer spots, as well as one with which to activate the buffer window. There are even four different menubar icons to pick from, in case you don't like the default.

After using PTHPasteboard for the last week or so, it's become an invaluable part of my toolkit, and has saved a bunch of time in copying and pasting work on the new site. Definitely worth the high praise it received in last week's comments!
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Another useful feature of PTHPasteboard...
Authored by: jolinwarren on Mon, Jan 20 2003 at 11:05AM PST
Another great feature of PTHPasteboard is that it will save the contents of your clipboards between restarts, logouts, etc. So if you've just restarted, you have access to all of the same historical clipboards as you would without the restart. What a great feature!

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If you like that...
Authored by: bostmass on Mon, Jan 20 2003 at 12:26PM PST
I have also found the PTHClock to be absolutely indispensable and a complete replacement for Apple's menu bar clock. You can have the date and time in any format you want visible at once, and a nice sheet-popping calendar can be displayed based on your preferences. The company comes out with some nice freeware (or donationware).

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CopyPaste better than PTHPasteboard...
Authored by: kimvmar on Mon, Jan 20 2003 at 4:28PM PST
I use CopyPaste (in both 9 and X) which I find superior to PTHP

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CopyPaste better than PTHPasteboard...
Authored by: steventamm on Mon, Jan 20 2003 at 8:42PM PST
Why?

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CopyPaste better...for what??
Authored by: Felix on Tue, Jan 21 2003 at 12:22AM PST
CopyPaste certainly has additional features like text scrub (cleans up text for posting into e-mail, documents, etc.) but if all you need is a great multiple pasteboard copy buffer (with other features noted above) then look no further than PTHPasteboard. It has been around since OS X was first released and I have used it continuously from that infamous Saturday forward. I was a registered OS 9 CopyPaste user but the company screwed around so long getting an OS X version out the door that I found adequate work-arounds and then never bothered to upgrade when the native version was finally released. Frankly, it would be difficult to imagine Mac life without this little app.

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Another useful feature of PTHPasteboard...
Authored by: pdr on Tue, Jan 21 2003 at 8:30PM PST
How are you able to save your contents thru restarts? I don't see that in prefs or anywhere else.

thanks!

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Another useful feature of PTHPasteboard...
Authored by: robg on Tue, Jan 21 2003 at 9:43PM PST
There's a "Save Buffers" option in the preferences panel...

-rob.

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If only it would run.
Authored by: twehr on Tue, Jan 21 2003 at 8:30AM PST
Sounds like a great app. Unfortunately, it only runs for 2-3 seconds before it dies and goes away. Not very useful that way.

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Conflict of some sort...
Authored by: robg on Tue, Jan 21 2003 at 1:50PM PST
I have it running on two machines flawlessly -- if you login as another user, does it run?

-rob.

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If only it would run.
Authored by: ruminator on Wed, Feb 12 2003 at 6:17PM PST
I have been running it for a week now without a problem.

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Network sync in PTHPasteboard?
Authored by: david-bo on Thu, Jan 23 2003 at 6:04PM PST
Has anyone managed to make the network syncing (between different computers running PTHPasteboard) in PTHPasteboard work? I don't understand how to use it:-(

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