Paste Master is an easy to use clipboard manager configured by a preference pane that allows you to save multiple clipboards and be able to paste them again later. It has the following advantages:
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Recognition Of Special Text Types
Paste Master allows you to copy numbers in several different formats and paste them in their current form, as separate fields, or as fields together. Pasting as separate fields means that tabs are typed between the fields to move to the next field in the form. Thus, a phone number like: (202) 345-6789
can be pasted as:
or as:
In addition, Paste Master recognizes URLs and allows you to go to the URL in your default browser or
paste the URL as a TinyURL.
Paste Master currently supports several types, with
special handling as shown
below. Each type is denoted with a letter in a colored background
for easy identification of types.
| Type | Examples(s) | Special handling |
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| Number | 202-345-6789 | Paste as individual fields, or as just the digits | ||||
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789-456-1234 x5678 | |||||
| (202) 345-6789 | ||||||
| (789) 456-1234 x5678 | ||||||
| 02 1234 5678 | ||||||
| 234-23-0500 (e.g., an SSN) | ||||||
| Multiple | xcy-kjy-oiuy-po34 (e.g., registration code) | Paste as individual fields or with fields
together |
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Fields  |
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| Multiple | John Woodward |
Paste as individual words | ||||
Words  |
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Address  (3 lines) |
Barack Obama 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500 |
Paste as an
address into address form fields (name, address line 1, address line 2, city, state, zip code), with address line 2 blank |
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| Address (4 lines) |
John Woodward XYZ Company 123 Whatever Street Somewhere, ST 01234 |
Paste as an
address into address form fields (name, address line 1, address line 2, city, state, zip code), with address line 2 filled in |
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URL  |
http://theWoodwards.us |
Go to URL in default browser (if you are connected to the web) | ||||
| Paste as a TinyURL
(if you are connected to the web) |
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| Multiple Items  |
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Create Multiple Clipboards -- 1 clipboard per item (items are separated by tabs or ends of lines) |
All text types can also be pasted unformatted.
Using Clipboards From Grid
Here is an example grid display of multiple saved
clipboards that
show how the special types are designated. You display or
hide
the grid with a hot key you designate (default command-/).
You can also hide the grid with the escape key, by clicking on the
close (red) button, or by clicking outside the grid (unless you are in Paste Multiple
Mode
or Drag Mode).
As you move your cursor over the grid, the background of
the item you are pointing to turns light blue to track the cursor.
If a very long textual item is in a clipboard, you can hover your mouse over item and more of the text (as much as will fit) will be shown. If you hover your mouse over an image, a larger size of the image will be displayed (up to full size, as much as will fit). Some clipboards contain both an image and text:
- An image copied from Safari by right clicking and choosing "Copy Image" displays the image in the grid (or menu bar icon), but if you hover over the image in the grid, its URL (also saved in the clipboard) will be displayed.
- If you copy a single Finder item, its icon is displayed, but if you hover over it in the grid its name is displayed.
If you copy multiple Finder
items, the image shown at the right is displayed, but if you
hover over it in the grid all of the copied filenames are displayed.
You
click a clipboard or type its number to paste it. Only the first
9 clipboards have a number, shown with a yellow background.
Clipboard 2, marked with a , has been
recognized as multiple words,
so command-clicking (by default) pastes each word in a different field,
tabbing in
between. This feature would be useful for pasting a name into
separate first and last name fields.
Clipboard 3, marked with an , has been
recognized as having
multiple fields (like a registration code), so command clicking
pastes each field separately.
Clipboards 4 & 5, marked with ,
have been recognized as numbers, so (by default) command-clicking
pastes as
fields, or option-clicking (by default) pastes all digits together.
Clipboard 6, marked with ,
has been
recognized as a URL, and you can go to that URL in your default browser
or paste it as a TinyURL (if you are connected to the web).
Clipboard 7, marked with ,
has been
recognized as an address, and can be 1) pasted as such into a form with
multiple fields for an address or 2) made into one clipboard per line,
(added in addition to the clipboard containing the full address).
Clipboard 8, marked with ,
has been
recognized as having multiple items in it (with individual items
separated by tabs within a line or by ends of lines). Such a
clipboard can be used to create one clipboard per item, (added in
addition to the clipboard containing the multiple items).
Right-clicking any clipboard shows you all the options
for that
clipboard and
allows you to choose:
Searching Clipboards
If
you type text in the
search field, clipboards
matching the text are
turned to a light green background, as shown at the right.
Searching occurs as you type, but while you type the yellow digits
disappear because typing those digits does not paste while you are
typing
in the search field, and mouse movements over the grid (such has
hovering to see more of a clipboard) do not work. Pressing return
exits the
search field,
restores the hovering and the yellow digits, and allows you to paste by
typing the
digits. The text in the search field is persistent--it applies to
clipboards added to the grid after the text is entered, and is saved
across restarts and clipboard set switches if you are saving passwords.The Grid Menu
Using
the pulldown menu in the upper left of the grid, as shown at the right,
you can show help below the grid that reminds you of grid usage and the
key
modifiers (shortcuts) you can specify when clicking in the grid.
You
can also open the preferences, delete unlocked clipboards, all
clipboards, or unlock all clipboards. You can also specify grid-specific options, including four grid sizes, with a default of "Normal", which is shown above. With the "Tiny" size, the lock icon is not shown, but locked clipboards have a white background.
You can also modify several general configuration options (that also appear in the preference pane, and apply to both the grid menu and icon menu).
You can also choose the clipboard set you want to display in the grid and icon menu. The default set, as shown at the right, is called "Main". Choose "Edit..." if you want to create, delete, or duplicate existing sets.
Finally, you can also turn on/off:
- Paste Multiple Mode, which allows you to paste multiple clipboards without the grid disappearing after pasting.
- Drag Mode, which allows you to drag clipboards to rearrange them in the grid or drag into specific places in applications.
- Delete After Pasting Mode,
which causes unlocked clipboards to be deleted after they are pasted.
Paste Multiple Mode
as shown at the right
to indicate you are in paste multiple mode, and the grid will remain
displayed until you close it with the grid hotkey, the ESC key, or by
clicking the red close button. Clicking outside the grid does not hide
it in this mode, and if you bring another window forward while the grid
is displayed, the yellow numbers disappear from the grid because
typing those because would type into the window rather than pasting a
clipboard.You will remain in this mode until you select Paste Multiple (command-M) again with the grid displayed (even if you hide and redisplay the grid). When in this mode, you can type the tab key to tab in the window into which you are pasting. Also, if you reposition the grid in this mode, it will stay where you put it even if you hide the grid and redisplay it. When you enter this mode, a number of other options appear:
- Tab After Pasting
(command-T) makes it easier to paste into forms, because the next form
field is automatically tabbed to after each paste. When this mode is
on, the grid menu button changes to
.
- Show All Clipboards (command-A) is the default when in Paste Multiple mode, but if you have many clipboards saved, you may find it inconvenient because the grid blocks the window into which you are pasting.
- Show Only Locked
(command-L) shows
only locked clipboards, in case you locked them because you paste them
often. You might use this to paste you name, address, phone
number, etc. This option is available only if you have locked
clipboards.
- Show Only Recent (command-R) shows only the last 9 clipboards, which can be pasted easily by typing 1-9.
- Show Only Recent and Locked (command-B) shows both of the above.
- Use Fewest Rows Possible lays out the grid with clipboards going across and uses as few rows as possible. The idea is to make the grid thin and able to be moved to the top or bottom of the screen to allow easy access to windows on the screen while the grid remains displayed.
- Use Fewest Columns Possible lays out the grid with clipboards going down instead of across and uses as few columns as possible. The idea is to make the grid thin and able to be moved to the right or left of the screen to allow easy access to windows on the screen while the grid remains displayed.
In Paste Multiple mode you can move the grid where you want it and its position will be restored the next time you enter Paste Multiple mode. With the grid displayed all the time, you may find it more convenient to have it vertically displayed with as few columns as possible so you can tuck it away on the left- or right-hand side of your screen. If this is the case, select Use Fewest Columns Possible. If you choose this, the clipboards are laid out down the columns as opposed to across the rows. When you leave Paste Multiple mode, the grid returns to its normal layout.
Drag Mode
as shown at the right. However, clicking a clipboard does not
paste it, because in this mode you can drag clipboards to rearrange
them in the grid or drag them into other applications to paste them.When rearranging clipboards, if you have grouped locked clipboards you can rearrange either the locked or unlocked clipboards, but not intermix them.
You can drag a clipboard to any application that can accept the type of clipboard to paste it.
Note that although you can specify Tab After Pasting in drag mode, it applies only if you paste via right clicking, but not if you paste by dragging. When you turn this on in Drag Mode, the grid menu button changes to
Drag Mode is very useful when for pasting multiple clipboards into field entries and is more convenient than moving the cursor in between each paste in such a case.
Delete After Pasting Mode
In this mode...which applies whether you are in normal, paste multiple, or drag modes, specifies that after an unlocked clipboard is pasted (in any manner), it should be removed from the grid. If you are in this mode, a trash can appears in the grid menu, such as:
,
, 
, 
, or 
. Note that this
mode also appears in the Menu Bar and can be controlled from there as
well.Using Clipboards From Menu Bar
You
can optionally have Paste Master display its icon in the menu bar, as
shown at the right. You can also choose to have the icon be
grayscale, as shown at the right. The functions at the top of the
menu are the same as in the grid menu,
except
for the "Clipboard Size" menu, which allows you to specify one of four
different
clipboard sizes:- Normal--1 line per text clipboard, max 30 characters wide; plain text shown; small size for images
- Medium--up to 3 lines per text clipboard, greater width; formatted text shown; medium size for images
- Large--up to 6 lines per text clipboard, greater width; formatted text shown; large size for images
- Huge--all lines for text clipboard (that fit on screen), greater width; formatted text shown; huge size for images
Choosing the clipboard pastes it. The shortcuts that work on the grid work here as well (except that control- or right-click is not needed because each clipboard acts as a menu if you want to choose a function that way).
Pasting via this menu works in a situation when pasting via the grid does not. Certain applications that cause you to take some special action to enter input mode may cancel input mode when the grid is displayed. In this case, pasting via this menu should work because the menu does not cancel input mode. As example of this behavior, if you select a file in Finder and hit return, you enter input mode. Displaying the grid cancels input mode, but pulling down the menu does not.
Locked items will be marked with a lock symbol as in the grid on 10.5+ systems, but will be marked with a check mark on 10.4 systems (because of a Mac OS limitation).
Editing Text Clipboards
Locking Clipboards
As more
clipboards are
selected they are added to the grid up to the maximum you specify
(1-99). When the maximum is reached, the oldest clipboards
are thrown away. To prevent this for a particular clipboard,
you can lock it. The visual difference between locked an
unlocked clipboards is shown at the right. You can
lock/unlock individual clipboards or unlock all of them. Note
that you cannot lock all of the available clipboards because then there
would be no room for new ones.
Deleting Clipboards
You can delete individual clipboards (e.g. because they contain sensitive information), or all unlocked clipboards, or all clipboards (via the grid menu or menu bar icon). Note that deleting all clipboards clears the system clipboard, which may be useful as a security measure. You can also enable a hotkey that allows you to quickly delete all unlocked clipboards. Also, you can use Delete After Pasting Mode to cause unlocked clipboards to be deleted after they are pasted. Finally, if you are in Drag Mode, dragging an unlocked clipboard to the trash deletes it.
Entering Notes
Notes are a very useful feature that allows you to capture thoughts,
URLs, etc. for later use by entering them directly into a clipboard
from any application. Paste Master supports a hotkey to bring up a
dialog that lets you enter notes. When you type the hotkey
(default command-option-/), which can be changed in the preference pane, the dialog at the
right appears
to allow you to enter a note. You can enter directly into any
clipboard set, including one you are not currently using (you might
even want to create a set just for notes), and you can specify whether
you want the note to be locked or not.Pasting Multiple Clipboards Via
Hot Key
In addition to Paste Multiple Mode and Drag Mode in the
grid, there is an alternative way to paste multiple clipboards. A
special hot key (default command-')
is specified in the Preference Pane (see below)
that pastes the items in the clipboard in a last-in-first-out
manner. The hot key can be used with or without
the grid displayed. In other words, using the grid above as an
example, the first press of this hot key would paste "word" (the last
item copied), the next press would paste "two words", etc. There
are three important things to note about pasting with this hot key:- There is a very slight delay between pressing the hot key and the pasting of the clipboard. This is normal.
- As you paste and item, it goes to the end of the grid, and other unlocked items shift downward, such that each paste actually pastes the first item shown in the grid (if you were to look at it between pastes).
- If you have locked items that you have grouped at the
beginning or end of the grid (see below),
they will not be
shifted via this hot key.
Pasting Into Forms
In addition to using the Paste Multiple Mode, Drag Mode, or Last-In-First-Out hotkey features to make form entry easier, you can use the special data types that Paste Master recognizes to facilitate form entry as follows:| Addresses | With a typical
address form like:
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Just select an
entire address like: Barack Obama 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500 or John Woodward XYZ Company 123 Whatever Street Somewhere, ST 01234 Then put your cursor in the "Name" field, display the grid, right-click the address clipboard, and choose "Paste As Address". The result will be that the address will populate the address fields. |
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| Phone Numbers |
With a typical phone number form
like: Extension |
Just select a phone number like: 456-123-1234, or (456) 123-1234 or 456-123-1234 x56789 Then put your cursor in the first field, display the grid, right-click the number clipboard, and choose "Paste As Separate Fields". The result will be that the address will populate the phone number fields. |
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| Multiple Items |
With any type of form |
You can use the
"Create Multiple Clipboards" feature in multiple cases. If, for
example, you have an address in some other format than those above in a
clipboard, then choosing "Create Multiple Clipboards" will add one
clipboard per line in the address. You can them paste or drag
each line into the form as needed. This would be much easier than
copying each line separately. As another example, if you have numbers in a spreadsheet, you can copy a bunch of them at once then create one clipboard per number easily. |
Shortcuts
Several
modifier keys and combinations provide shortcuts for choosing special
functions from the menu bar or from the contextual menus in the grid.
Here are the default keys and their meanings:| Control or
Right-click |
Displays the menu of all functions that can be performed on the clicked clipboard |
| Command | Pastes the clicked clipboard as separate fields; ignored if clipboard was not recognized as fields or a phone number |
| Option | Pastes the clicked clipboard as digits together; ignored if clipboard was not recognized as a phone number |
| Command-Option | Deletes the clicked clipboard |
All of these can be changed (except right-click) using the Shortcuts tab in the preference pane as described below.
Security Features
If you are concerned about having sensitive data in saved clipboards,
there are several Paste Master features that allow you manage this risk:- You can manually delete clipboards that are sensitive when you are done using them (using either the grid or the menu bar icon).
- You can specify in the Preference Pane that clipboards not be saved across restarts, or that only locked clipboards be saved.
- You can specify for each clipboard
set that unlocked clipboards should automatically deleted after a
certain amount of time (or upon restart). This allows you to have
different auto delete settings for different clipboard sets. For
example, you might have a special set with automatic deletion for your
most sensitive information, and not automatically delete in another set.
Clipboard Sets
If you have specified that clipboards should be saved across restart, you
can maintain any number
of named clipboard sets, creating,
deleting, or choosing which one you want to use via the grid menu or menu bar icon. Both of these
menus contain a "Clipboard Sets" menu such as the one shown at the
right. This menu allows you to choose which set to use ("Main" is
selected at the right). You can also choose "Switch" (or more
typically type command-S) to rotate through the sets displayed in the
grid. Finally, you can choose "Edit..." to display this
dialog that allows you to create, delete, rename, duplicate, or edit
the
automatic delete settings for each clipboard set:
You cannot rename or delete the "Main" set.
The popup menu in the "Auto delete unlocked clipboards..." column gives
you the following options:
You
can also move clipboards between sets. This is useful if you save
a clipboard in the wrong set. To move a clipboard, right- or
control-click it and choose the set to which you want to move the
clipboard, as shown in the menu at the right.Configuring Paste Master
When you select the Paste Master preference pane
in the
System Preferences (it is automatically selected immediately after
installation), you will see the Configure tab:
The default configuration is shown above. Any configuration
changes you make take effect when you enable Paste Master, or--for
changes made after it is enabled--when you leave the Preference
Pane. If you uncheck "Move pasted unlocked clipboard to first
unlocked position", unlocked items
you
click on to paste will remain in their current position until you cut
or copy a new item, which will always go into the first unlocked
position shifting
others up by one. You can cause locked clipboard to be grouped at
the beginning or the end of the grid and (optional) menu bar menu.
You have the option to save all or just locked
clipboards across
reboots or restarts of Paste Master.
If you put large amounts of data in the clipboard
frequently, you may find that things slow down. In this case, you
may want to check the "Do not save clipboards larger than..."
option. Clipboards larger than the specified size will not be
saved at all. Note that:
- Clipboards are actually much larger than you would think. A clipboard with a single character in it could actually be thousands of bytes.
- Turning on this option will slow things down slightly
because the size of each clipboard must be checked. But it will
not slow down as much as saving many large clipboards.
The number of clipboards saved can be 1-99. If you
set it to a number lower than the current number of saved clipboards,
older saved clipboards will be deleted. However, in no case will
locked clipboards be automatically deleted, nor will the last unlocked
clipboard. Examples assuming that you have 5 locked clipboards
and 5 unlocked clipboard saved:
- If you set the number of saved clipboards to 8, the oldest two unlocked clipboards are deleted.
- If you set the number of saved clipboards to 4, the oldest four unlocked clipboards are deleted (because 1 unlocked clipboard must always be left), leaving a total of 6 clipboards.
You can specify that text clipboards are pasted unformatted by default.
You can specify that text clipboards are shown unformatted in the grid.
By default, the grid is centered on your display. If you want to control where it is displayed, check "Allow Me to position the grid". Once it is displayed, you can move it, and it will stay there, even if it changes size because you copy more clipboards. If you check "Display grid near cursor", the grid will appear near the cursor, but completely visible on one screen. This option is useful when you have multiple screens. These last two options are mutually exclusive: checking one unchecks the other.
When you select "Create Multiple Clipboards", by default duplicate clipboards are not saved, so if you create multiple clipboards from "1 1 2", you would get just "1" and "2" as clipboards. If instead you want all three clipboards, select "Do not eliminate duplicates with Create Multiple Clipboards".
The Hotkeys
tab
allows you specify all hotkeys that will be recognized by Paste
Master. The defaults are shown below. Clicking the buttons
at the right captures the next key (with modifiers) that you type as
the hotkey.
Note that each hotkey
can be
individually enabled.
Note that the "Copy Appending" hotkey works only if the current clipboard contains text and you are copying text. When you use this hotkey, the text in the clipboard loses any special formatting and can hence be pasted only as plain text. Copy Appending does not impact the current system clipboard, but rather the first clipboard shown in the grid or menu bar menu. Thus, to paste the accumulated clipboard, paste it from the grid or menu bar menu.
The Applications
tab allows you to specify preferences for specific applications as
illustrated below.
Clipboards from applications whose clipboards are
to be ignored will appear in
position 1 of the grid, but will not be saved after that. In
other words, the next clipboard will replace them in position 1.
By default, there are no applications whose clipboards are
excluded. The preferences above for pasting formatted or not
override the similar preference in the Configure tab when
pasting into the listed application(s).
The Shortcuts tab allows you to change the default modifier keys that provide shortcuts in the clipboard grid or menu:
The Grid tab shows a reminder of the meanings of the symbols of the in the clipboards window, and the Register tab allows you to go to the web page where you can pay only $8 for a registration code and enter the code. It also allows you to go to a web page to retrieve a previously-purchased registration code given your purchase information.
Installing Paste Master
ALWAYS make sure that System Preferences is not
open when you install. To install, just double-click Paste Master.prefPane.
You will be given the option to install for all
users or just the current one. No matter how you install it,
it
must be configured for each user separately.
Uninstalling Paste Master
To uninstall Paste Master, disable it in the preference pane then
remove the preference pane from System Preferences by right-clicking it
and selecting "Remove".
Macintosh
Requirements
Paste Master is a Cocoa (MacOS X only) application. It runs on 10.5+. Universal Binary.
It is required that the keyboard shortcut on your system to paste is command-v, and that the keyboard shortcut to copy by command-c, the common defaults.
FAQ
Q: I am running 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or later. I cannot get the preference pane to install because it was not downloaded from the app store, and there is a message about an unidentified developer. What do I do now?A: Just right-click on the preference pane and choose "Open". Then answer the dialog saying you want to open it. This will install the preference pane.
Acknowledgments
As of version 8.4, Paste Master uses a modified version
of ShortcutRecorder
to allow for the specification of Hotkeys.
Copyright (c) 2006-2009, contributors to
ShortcutRecorder.
(See the contributors listed in detail later in the file, or see wafflesoftware.net)
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- The name of the contributors may not be used to
endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
AND ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES;
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AND
ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
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OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
=====================================================================
Contributors to Shortcut Recorder, in no order in particular:
Jesper, waffle software, <wootest+shortcutrecorder@gmail.com>.
Initial idea and concept, first shot at implementation using NSView.
David Dauer, <david@daviddauer.de>. Refinement, cleaner
reimplementation, documentation, IB Palette.
Jamie Kirkpatrick, Kirk Consulting Ltd,
<jkp@kirkconsulting.co.uk>. Further modularisation and
re-factoring, and general bug fixes.
=====================================================================
ShortcutRecorder uses CTGradient, Copyright (c) 2005, Chad Weider.
Some rights reserved: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
For more information, visit http://blog.oofn.net/projects/misc/
Version History
9.8 - Further refined the recognition of URLs in clipboards.
9.7 - Feature enhancement and bug fix:
- Added support for recognizing and going to more types of URLs.
- Fixed bug in use of shortcuts to delete URL clipboards.
9.6 - Fixed bug in 9.5 that effected the grid menu.
9.5 - Feature enhancement and bug fixes:
- Added the ability to move clipboards between clipboard sets
- Fixed bug in grouping locked clipboards when switching clipboard sets.
- Fixed bug with editing clipboards.
9.4 - Feature update:
- Clipboards produced by additional automatic typing utilities are now ignored (including 1Password).
9.3 - Feature update:
- Added option -- for the Create Multiple Clipboards function -- to not eliminate duplicate clipboards.
9.2 - Feature update:
- Improved handling of clipboards that contain Mail.app headers.
- Removed support for .pvr clipboard contents.
- Updates to improve compatibility with forthcoming Yosemite (Mac OS 10.10) release.
9.1 - Not released.
9.0 - Feature update:
- Added to ability to
create multiple clipboards from multi-item (multi-line or separated by
tabs) clipboards for easier pasting or dragging.
8.9 - Feature enhancement:
- Clipboards whose contents cannot be displayed as text or an
image
are now denoted with the application that created them, as
<<ApplicationName Clipboard>>.
8.8 - Feature enhancements and bug fixes:
- Added mode to have saved clipboards deleted after they are pasted.
- In drag mode, dragging a clipboard to the trash now deletes it.
- Bug fixes.
8.7 - Feature enhancements and bug fix:
- Improved checking for updates with new Updates tab in Preference Pane.
- Moved the checkbox to automatically check for updates to the
new Updates tab.
- Fixed bug in entering notes.
8.6 - Reduced the amount of disk space used for saved clipboards.
8.5 - Feature enhancements and bug fixes:
- Added hotkey to paste the current clipboard unformatted (if a text clipboard).
- Added help within the preference pane.
- Fixed bug with use of "Use Fewest Columns Possible".
- Fixed bug with "Paste as Tiny URL" not restoring the
actual clipboard after pasting.
- Fixed bug with "Paste as Tiny URL" not working when you have proxied internet access.
8.4 - Feature enhancement::
- Hotkeys are now specified in a different manner that allows function keys, arrow keys, etc. to be hotkeys.
- Updated the icon that appears in System Preferences for retina displays.
8.3 - Feature enhancements and bug fixes:
- Added preference to display grid where the cursor is located.
- Added debugging info to email body when "Email the
Author" is clicked.
- Fixed bug occurring when all clipboards are locked and grouped at start.
- Eliminated even more clipboard duplication.
8.2 - Enhancements and bug fix:
- Improved performance when copying small images.
- Updated the menu bar icon for retina displays.
- Improved help available in the preference pane.
- Fixed bug causing duplication of some clipboards.
8.1 - Bug fixes:
- Fixed crash caused by other applications creating
mal-formed clipboards (these are now ignored).
- Restored yellow background to clipboard displayed by
hovering over them in the grid.
- Fixed other miscellaneous bugs.
8.0 - Feature update and bug fixes:
- Added "Drag Mode" to the grid, allowing clipboards to be: 1) rearranged in the grid by dragging them; and 2) dragged directly into specific locations in other applications to "paste" in that location.
- Corrected indication of current "Show only..." item in grid menu while in Paste Multiple or Drag modes.
- Fixed bug creating new clipboard sets.
- Fixed rare crash when reading large or corrupt clipboards.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
7.91 - Fixed bug occurring when all clipboards are
locked.
7.9 - Feature updates and bug fix:
- Preference Pane reorganized to put all hotkeys in a single tab, replacing the "Append Copy" tab.
- Improved error checking in the Preference Pane.
- Each hotkey can now be individually enabled.
- Added hotkey to delete all unlocked clipboards in the current set.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
7.8 - Compatibility updates:
- Clipboards produced by automatic typing utilities (like TextExpander, Butler, TypeIt4Me, Typinator, Keyboard Maestro, etc.) are ignored.
- Text clipboards of 0 length are ignored (1Password does this to clear the clipboard).
7.71 - Fixed bug (in 7.7) occurring when clipboards are
not saved across restarts.
7.7 - Feature and documentation enhancements and bug fixes:
- Grid title is now name of clipboard set, or "Clipboards" if you have only one set.
- Application-specific preferences were improved.
- Optional help information that displays below grid now contains instructions on grid usage.
- A help screen is shown the first time Paste Master is run.
- Reorganized documentation and added table of contents.
- Fixed bugs in renaming sets.
7.6 - Feature enhancement:
- Improved grid search functionality.
7.5 - Feature enhancement:
- Added "Check For Updates" button to preference pane.
7.4 - Feature and performance enhancements:
- Added ability to specify default text pasting (formatted or not) on a per-application basis.
- Improved support for very large clipboards (such as
huge images).
- Improved performance (especially if saving clipboards between restarts).
7.3 - Compatibility enhancements:
- Improved Preference Pane user interaction on Lion (10.7).
- Fixed problem with Paste Master not running after
restart on Mountain Lion (10.8).
7.2 - Feature enhancement and bug fix:
- Added the ability switch among multiple clipboard sets by typing command-s when the grid is displayed.
- Fixed bug in editing clipboards when user has
positioned the grid.
7.1 - Feature enhancement:
- Added the ability to edit saved text clipboards.
7.0 - Feature enhancement:
- Added new security feature: the ability to specify, on a per-clipboard sets basis, that unlocked clipboards should be automatically deleted after some period of time or upon restart.
- Improved .plist bug workaround.
- Restored compatibility with Word 2004 clipboards.
- Fixed user interface glitch in the edit clipboard sets dialog.
6.9 - Feature enhancement and bug fix:
- Reorganized preference pane for improved clarity.
- Worked around bug in Mac OS 10.6 that leaves
zero-length .plist files in Library/Preferences.
6.82 - Bug fix:
- Fixed crash experience by some users of Version 6.8.
6.8 - Feature enhancement and bug fix:
- Added support for clipboards that contain both image
and text representations (such as images from Safari web pages and
Finder items).
- Fixed a bug whereby images would not paste when "Paste text clipboards as unformatted by default" is checked.
- Support for 10.4 dropped as of this release.
6.7 - Feature enhancement:
- Added ability to enter notes directly into clipboards for later use.
6.61 - Bug fix:
- Fixed bug in using menu bar menu introduced in 6.1.
6.6 - Feature enhancements:
- Grid menu and menu bar menu reorganized for compactness and consistency.
- Clipboard sets and general configuration items now available from the menu bar menu.
- Improved and corrected documentation.
6.5 - Feature enhancement:
- Added option to paste URLs as a TinyURL if you are connected to the web when you paste.
- Added shortcut for pasting as a TinyURL.
- The option to go to a URL appears only if you are
connected to the web.
6.4 - Feature enhancements:
- The grid position in Paste Multiple mode, is now remembered independent of the grid position in normal mode.
- The grid in Paste Multiple mode can now be displayed using the fewest number of columns possible, with the clipboards being filled in vertically rather than horizontally.
- Added warning about deleting saved clipboards if you
turn off saving across restart.
6.3 - Feature enhancement and bug fixes:
- Grid item backgrounds now track cursor over grid--the item you are pointing at turns light blue.
- Improved search function--you must now hit return in the search field.
- Fixed bug in pasteboard changes not being saved
across restarts in rare cases.
6.2 - Feature enhancement:
- Added support for recognition of URLs in clipboards and the ability to go a URL in your default browser via the grid or the menu bar.
6.1 - Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug in registration system with names containing Latin characters.
- Fixed misspelling in grid shortcut help.
6.0 - Feature enhancement:
- Added support for multiple, named, sets of clipboards
(see the grid menu).
5.6 - Feature enhancement and bug fixes:
- Many configuration settings from Preference Pane were duplicated in the grid menu for more convenient access.
- Fixed bugs in paste modifiers and grid help
information.
5.5 - Feature enhancement:
- Added ability to specify a shortcut for Paste As Address.
5.4 - Feature enhancement:
- Improved help about click modifiers (shortcuts) at
the bottom of the grid.
5.3 - Feature enhancements:
- Added option (via the grid menu) to display help about click modifiers (shortcuts) below the clipboards in the grid.
- Added "Lock Grid" to the "Paste Multiple" item in the
grid menu to clarify its purpose.
5.2 - Feature enhancement:
- Added option to not save clipboards over a specified size.
5.1 - Feature enhancement:
- Added option to group locked items at the beginning
of the grid and menu bar menu.
5.0 - Feature enhancements:
- Added support for recognition of addresses in clipboards and special pasting of addresses into form fields.
- Added ability to specify one of four clipboard sizes in the menu bar menu.
- The paste text clipboards unformatted by default
option now applies to clipboards pasted with the paste
last-in-first-out hotkey.
4.91 - Bug fix:
- Restored "Paste As Is" function when text clipboards are pasted unformatted by default.
4.9 - Feature enhancement:
- Added preference to specify that text clipboards should be pasted unformatted by default.
4.8 - Feature enhancement:
- Added preference to allow you to specify that only
locked clipboards should be saved across restarts.
4.7 - Feature enhancements:
- Added option to specify a hotkey to copy the selected text and append it to the current clipboard.
- If you have asked that clipboards be saved, they are
now saved every hour in case your system hangs.
4.6 - Feature enhancements and bug fixes:
- Added ability (via grid menu) to choose among four grid sizes.
- Grid position is saved across restart if "Allow me to position grid the grid" is selected.
- Fixed bug in saving grid position when grid is displayed from the menu bar menu.
- Fixed bug with pasting last-in-first-out.
4.5 - Feature enhancement:
- Added preference to allow you to determine where the
grid is positioned when displayed.
4.4 - Feature enhancement and documentation updated:
- Made menu bar icon highlight when clicked.
- Updated "Clipboard Grid" tab to reflect correct
contextual menu.
4.3 - Feature enhancement:
- Simplified grid contextual menu and menu bar menus by
removing submenus.
4.2 - Bug fixes:
- Fixed crash with small number of clipboards in multiple-paste mode.
- Fixed display glitch when deleting unlocked
clipboards.
4.1 - Fixed rarely-occurring glitch in pasting fields
together.
4.0 - Feature enhancements and typo fix:
- Added new pulldown menu in the clipboard grid that allows pasting, deleting, and unlocking multiple clipboards.
- Added ability to paste multiple saved clipboards in a last-in-first-out order using a new hotkey specified in the Preference Pane.
- Removed deleting and unlocking multiple clipboard options from the contextual menus of each clipboard in the grid.
- Added the option to unlock all clipboards to the menu bar icon.
- Reorganized Preference Pane configuration panel to add the new hotkey.
- Fixed typo in Preference Pane shortcuts panel.
3.8 - Feature enhancements:
- Added ability to specify the maximum number of clipboards that should be displayed in the menu.
- Reorganized Preference Pane.
3.7 - Feature enhancement and documentation update:
- Added option to display menu bar icon as grayscale.
- Fixed typo in Preference Pane documentation.
3.6 - Feature enhancement and bug fix:
- Added button to Register tab to retrieve previously-purchased registration code.
- Fixed bug with reducing the number of saved
clipboards below the current number saved.
3.5 - Feature enhancements:
- Added ability to specify keys that appear twice on keyboard (such as 0-9) as the hotkey and have both keys function as the hotkey.
- Added button in Preference Pane to email the author.
3.4 - Updates:
- Updated look of the clipboard grid, using solid gray
lines instead of dotted lines.
- Improved hover help for grids items.
3.3 - Feature enhancement:
- Added ability to paste recognized fields together
(e.g., 345FD-89 as 345FD89).
3.2 - Feature enhancement:
- Added "Exclusions" tab to preference pane to allow
you to specify applications whose clipboards should not be saved.
3.1 - Feature enhancements and typo fix:
- Broadened specification of what is recognized as a number to accommodate non-US phone number formats.
- Improved performance.
- Fixed typo in Preference Pane.
3.0 - Feature enhancement and bug fix:
- Added search field to clipboards grid.
- Fixed problem with pasting clipboards from Microsoft
Office and other applications that produce clipboards in uncommon ways.
2.91 - Fixed bug in menu on 10.3 systems.
2.9 - Feature enhancements:
- Added "Delete Unlocked Clipboards" to menu.
- Improved performance for large clipboard sets.
2.81 - Fixed obscure bug in setting hot key.
2.8 - Feature enhancements:
- Added support for Dvorak keyboard layout.
- Added shift modifier as an option for the hotkey.
- Added option to confirm deletions of all clipboard or unlocked clipboards to prevent accidental deletion.
- Reorganized Configure tab of Preference Pane.
2.7 - Feature enhancement:
- Changed Shortcuts tab to allow custom
specification of modifier keys for all functions that can be specified
via the clipboard grid or menu.
2.6 - Feature enhancement:
- Added preference to keep all locked clipboards grouped at the end of the grid and menu.
2.5 - Feature enhancements and bug fixes:
- More of a text item is now shown when you hover the mouse over them item in the grid.
- Image items are now shown larger (if possible) when you hover the mouse over the item in the grid.
- Images in the grid are now scaled down to fit in 10.6.
- Many memory leaks fixed.
2.4 - Feature enhancements:
- Added a warning in the preference pane that configuration changes take effect when Paste Master is re-enabled or System Preferences is quit.
- Improved support for non-standard clipboard types.
2.3 - Corrupted release.
2.2 - Feature enhancements and
bug fix:
- Added the option to display an icon in the menu bar to allow for Paste Master control and pasting, as an alternative to the grid view.
- The escape key now dismisses the clipboards grid.
- Right-clicking a clipboard in the grid now displays the menu, like a control-click.
- Fixed bug in entering registration code.
2.1 - Feature enhancements and
bug fixes:
- Added the option to display all text in clipboard grid unformatted.
- Clipboard grid width is now limited by main screen width.
- Empty grid cells now have a darker background to
visually distinguish them.
- Worked around buggy clipboard produced by Mail.
- Fixed bug in clipboard type display and empty grid cell display.
- Fixed bug in shrinking some image clipboards to fit in grid cell.
2.0 - Feature and compatibility enhancements and
bug fix:
- Added the ability save clipboards across restarts.
- Added the ability to lock individual clipboards so they are not discarded as new items are placed in the clipboard (and the ability to unlock).
- Added the option to paste text without its formatting.
- Added the option to automatically check for updates.
- Clipboards now displayed in the grid as formatted text.
- Added hover help to the Configure tab of the preference pane.
- Limited the display of clipboard items hovered over to 1000 characters.
- Reorganized the help information in the preference pane.
- Preference pane now loads as 64 bit on 10.6--no annoying relaunch of System Preferences (10.4+ version only).
- Fixed bug when "Moved pasted clipboards to position 1" is unchecked.
1.1 - Feature and compatibility enhancements:
- Added the ability to delete individual or ALL saved clipboards.
- Reformatted preference pane for improved display on 10.4.
- Added support for 10.3.
1.0 - Initial release.
Purchasing
Paste Master
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Registration includes future updates.To purchase Paste Master, click here, or click the Purchase Registration Code button in the Register tab of the Preference Pane. Once you have paid, you will receive a registration code via email. You can enter this code in Paste Master Register tab.
If you do not get your registration code via email in a
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filter. In that case, click on the Retrieve Purchased Code button in
the Register tab or click here and enter
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