[sotd] February 28, 2003 Hamsin Clipboard - Software of the Month]
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- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:01:02 -0400
Site of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2003
Hamsin Clipboard -- Software of the Month
Gentle Members using any of the flavors of the Windows OS, who find
themselves doing a great many copy/paste operations in the course of their
computing day, are aware of the deficiencies of the clipboard. There are a
number of heavy-duty freeware utilities which address these inadequacies,
as well as number of lighter weight applications. One of the lesser known
programs which deserves a far higher profile is the sprightly Hamsin
Clipboard from programmer Pavel Shenkman.
The List had previously been a devotee of a similar freeware utility
"Clipomatic" (SOTD Software of the Month - December 2001). However, its
supremely irritating habit of vaporizing recently used clips between
restarts, ultimately proved too annoying for continued use. After a
tenacious hunt through a veritable multitude of clipboard applications,
Hamsin Clipboard emerged as out-performing other applications in this
class. For the better part of a year, Hamsin Clipboard has been a stalwart
staple for the List.
One of the prime requisites for many users of essential utilities is the
program's ability to avoid adding to the burden of an aching 'mouse elbow'
by providing a range of keyboard shortcuts, preferably configurable to the
user's choice. Hamsin Clipboard excels in this respect, with its capability
of allowing a single keystroke (one of the Function keys) to invoke the
program's complete selection of the last ten clips, which are automatically
saved as a clipboard history. These clips will remain firmly in place, even
if the program is shut down and restarted.
The utility offers support for 'all standard clipboard formats (text, OEM
text, unicode text, text locale, bitmaps, metafiles, palettes, etc.) and
rich text formats are optionally supported'. Additionally, constantly used
'boilerplate' text may be stored permanently under the 'Favorites' section
and used by a simple hot key combination without even opening the drop down
list. The "Merge Copied Texts" allows several clips to be combined and
pasted as a single item while "Incremental Paste" offers the ability to
copy a number of clips and then paste them in the order they were copied.
Miserly in its use of RAM, it consumes less than 225 kb according to
MemLoad, a boon to those on computers without a truckload of memory. Its
author declares 'no installation required', although its 'configuration is
saved now in [the] Windows registry instead of [an] ini file'. The zip file
download is an incredibly modest 49 Kb.
The List is totally dependent on a robust clipboard utility. If Gentle
Members find themselves in a similar situation, this month's Windows
freeware program, Hamsin Clipboard, may be of inestimable value.
Drop over to the website for an unsung hero among clipboard programs at:
http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/
A.M. Holm
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