ClipMate Newsletter - March 2006
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Welcome back to our Newsletter, featuring news about the upcoming ClipMate 7 update, a special offer, and as always, a ClipMate usage tip.
Many of you have already upgraded to ClipMate 7, as a result of the auto-update notification. If that's you, then thanks! Otherwise, we'd like to announce that ClipMate 7 is available, and that registered ClipMate 6 users can take advantage of the $19.95 single-user upgrade pricing by following this link: http://www.thornsoft.com/ClipMate7_Upgrade_Offer.htm
Coming Soon: We're working on version 7.1 now, and all registered users of ClipMate 7 will be able to download the update for free when it is released this summer.
NOTE: The latest release is v7.0.07.133, and you can download it here: http://www.thornsoft.com/dist/ClipMate.exe
While ClipMate's single-user license allows you to run the same license on up to two computers, sometimes your needs grow. Our "Household Pack" allows home users to run ClipMate on up to 5 computers. We also have multi-user discounts for workgroups and businesses of any size. Sometimes the pricing gets tricky when you are expanding or upgrading multi-user licenses, so send us an e-mail: sales@thornsoft.com and Brenda can prepare a custom quote for upgrading your license, taking into account what you've already purchased.
Special Offering - DreamQuest GamesSometimes our users ask us what they should do with all of the time that they save by using ClipMate. How about some card games? Chess, Checkers, Mah Jong? DreamQuest makes great games for Windows, Palm and PocketPC. We've known the owners for years, and believe me, they take their fun very seriously!We're pleased to offer all of their games to our readers at a $5 discount (25% off) until July 1, 2006. Click http://dqsoft.com/coupon/league_clipmate to order with the coupon. Whether you're trying to hone your Euchre skills, learn Chess, or want experience their online gameroom, we think you'll like what DreamQuest has to offer. They have free trials available, and a 100% money-back guarantee. |
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Today's major applications can place richly formatted data onto the clipboard, containing fonts, colors, images, and all sorts of markup. Sometimes this is great, sometimes it gets in the way. For example, if you copy some text from a web page and paste into a Word document, it will usually paste with the same font/size/color that it appeared on the web site. Then you have to go and change the font back to what you wanted. Or worse, you don't notice that your document switched from "arial" to "verdana" until the document was printed. I hate that!
ClipMate's "filter outbound clips", found under the "Tools" menu and optionally available on the main toolbars, allows you to "filter" the clipboard, thus allowing you to easily "paste as plain text" into any application, leaving the fancy formatting behind.
To use, turn on the filter from the Tools menu or the toolbar (you can add it to the toolbar with right-click | Customize Toolbar). Once activated, it will cause the clipboard to be updated with a "text only" or in the case of graphics, "bitmap only" version of the data. What happens next, depends on the "mode" that you are using - "active" or "passive" filtering. This option is selected in the "Pasting" tab of the options dialog.
"Active" mode will overwrite the clipboard with the "filtered" version of the data, as soon as the clipboard is updated by any program. Immediately after the data is copied, you'll hear the traditional "pop" sound, followed by the "whoosh" sound of the filtering. Now the clipboard contains plain text, and can be pasted immediately.
If you use the "passive" mode, the clipboard isn't overwritten until you bring ClipMate to the foreground and then switch to another program. So if you copy something and paste right away, you'll get all of the formatting. But if you copy something, switch to ClipMate, and THEN go to a program and paste, you'll get the text-only version.
Drawbacks: Filtering, particularly in the "active" mode, can disrupt the ability to copy/paste files within Windows Explorer. That's because Windows Explorer places file pointers and other fancy data types onto the clipboard, and then ClipMate's filter overwrites it with a plain-text list of the files. So then Windows can't paste. Quite a few users have run into this when they've left the filtering turned on, in "active" mode. The solution is to click the filtering off, or switch to passive mode.
Conclusion: While it's not something that you would normally leave turned on all the time, ClipMate Filtering ability can be a great convenience when fancy data formatting gets in the way.
For more information regarding clip filtering:
Several users have reported that all of a sudden, they couldn't copy
data from FireFox. And it didn't matter whether ClipMate was running or
not. They couldn't even copy simple text and paste into Notepad (a basic
test of clipboard functionality). Dave Hungerford, AKA WinSleuth,
did some digging, and discovered that there is a widespread, but largely
undetected piece of malware known as "AdWare.Win32.AdvertMen.a".
It's been causing all sorts of trouble, and there are several good
articles and blogs on the subject. We've listed some of the most useful
ones here:
http://www.thornsoft.com/hwp/question.php?qstId=112
Most of the translation files from version 6 have been updated to
work with version 7, but are incomplete - they're missing the strings
that are new to v7. However, the Russian translation has been
brought up to date. German, Chinese, and Turkish are in the
"partial" state, and work has now started on Polish and Italian
translations.
http://www.thornsoft.com/lang/index.htm
That's it for now! As always, please feel free to contact us with any questions.
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Thornsoft Development, Inc.
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