Posts Tagged ‘Copy Paste’

Windows CMD Alternative with Easy Copy/Paste, Tabs, and More

Windows only The Windows command prompt is one area Microsoft didn't get around to updating until they starting rolling out PowerShell as an integrated part of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 a few years ago.

June 28th, 2011
Windows CMD Alternative with Easy Copy/Paste, Tabs, and More

Paste Clipboard as Plain Text

Windows only There are several applications that I use on a regular basis that don't have a "paste as plain text" option in them. I'm sure most of you have experienced this at some time or another, and generally what I do in those situations is fire up Notepad, paste in the stuff I just copied, and then re-copy it from Notepad. It's not ideal, but it works.

June 22nd, 2011
Paste Clipboard as Plain Text

Shapeshifter is an Awesome Clipboard Manager

Windows only I've tried using quite a few clipboard managers in the past, but I always run into the same problem of forgetting they are actually there. Sometimes they use a custom keyboard shortcut which is yet another thing you'll have to embed in your brain, or there will be a System Tray icon that will be forgotten about shortly after installation. In my mind these methods aren't efficient.

April 7th, 2011
Shapeshifter is an Awesome Clipboard Manager

PasteCopy.NET: A More Advanced Windows Clipboard

Copying and pasting is something that we've come to do on a regular basis without thinking twice. What I find interesting is that over all of these years the basic concept has not changed. On most operating systems you copy one item, it gets stored on a clipboard, and is immediately overwritten when a newer item is copied.

March 5th, 2010
PasteCopy.NET: A More Advanced Windows Clipboard

Keyboard Shortcut to Paste Plain Text

There are some things I never understood with Microsoft. For example, why was it never possible until Windows 7 to have a keyboard shortcut for creating a new folder? Or for that matter why was there not even a toolbar icon you could add to perform that action? At least in Windows 7 they finally assigned Ctrl+Shift+N for creating a new folder, but that's not the only thing that's perplexed me.

September 10th, 2009
Keyboard Shortcut to Paste Plain Text