Cool Tools: ClipX

Here’s how I see the history of tool development

1. Stone Age man discovers the hand axe.


2. James Watt creates the Steam Engine


3. ClipX is written and released onto the Internet.

That’s it – all major tool based landmarks covered. There may be cynics who question the inclusion of ClipX into this 3 point history of technology. To them I say ‘pish’, ‘tish’ and ‘pish’ again. ClipX has revolutionised my desktop behaviour (sadly all my other behaviours remain steadfastedly unrevolutionised).

For years I though it was a law of the universe that you could only ever cut and paste one thing at once. You pop it onto the stack and push it off. ClipX stores a list of 25+ cut and copied objects and you can access them all with a Ctrl-Shify V (see this post’s picture). I kid you not – it’s a marvel to work with. I’m in the habit now of copying half a dozen chunks of code confident that I can retrieve them for further code based tomfoolery later.

And what is the price. Well to you governor it’s entirely free. So go mad – down load a copy and cut and paste until you can’t cut and paste anymore. Lovely.