ClipMate Newsletter - March 2006
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Welcome back to our Newsletter, featuring news about the latest ClipMate7 update, good news for FireFox users, 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
Universal QuickPaste lets you paste into most programs simply by double-clicking. The new ClipBar integrates right into your windows taskbar, showing the top clip and your choice of more than two dozen tool buttons. As with other toolbars in ClipMate 7, it's completely customizable. You can now drag/drop clips right into OLE-aware programs like Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, FireFox, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Excel, Paint Shop Pro, and many others. Virtual Collections will help you find your clips, no matter where you may have filed them. Are you a dual-screen power-user? We've updated our screen capture to be multi-monitor aware. And our new "skins" library gives ClipMate a fresh new look.
Here is a description of the new features, with screenshots:
http://www.thornsoft.com/new_features_7.htm
NOTE: The latest release is v7.0.07.133.
ClipMate 7 has a new series of collections that aren't really collections at all, in the sense that you'd put clips into them. Instead, they're really just "canned queries", returning a series of clips that match a particular criteria such as "all clips captured today" or "all bitmap clips". So if you captured a clip yesterday, and it resides in the InBox, it'll show up both in the InBox, and the "This Week" virtual collection. This is great for when you know that you captured something on a particular day, but aren't sure where you put it. The Virtual Collections will find it for you.
Note that any changes or deletions made to the clip in a virtual collection will affect what you see in the "real" collection - because it's really just the same clip. Note that when you're viewing a virtual collection, the second column of the ClipList shows the collection (InBox, Safe, etc.) where that clip actually resides.
For more information regarding virtual collections:
In version 7, we're breaking loose from the constraints of the old hotkey control, and allowing the use of new combinations such as the cute little "Windows" key, next to your spacebar. To use it, just use "WIN+", just like you'd use the other "modifier" keys such as "CTRL+", "SHIFT+", or "ALT+". While Microsoft would prefer that the WIN key be reserved for "shell commands", we feel that ClipMate's new ClipBar, which integrates into the windows taskbar, definitely qualifies. So the next time you need to paste something, press WIN+V, and the ClipBar Pop-Up menu should come right up. It's much handier than the mouse, as you can just arrow down to the clip that you want, press ENTER, and the clip should be pasted right back where you were working, without having to move your hands from the keyboard.
To see what keyboard modifiers and special keys are available, right-click in the hotkey editor, and it should give you a list of common keys, and you can select to insert.
For more information regarding the new hotkey editor:
In the next maintenance release, the "delete scripts" option will be enabled by default. But you can turn it on now. Just view a text clip in ClipMate Explorer, and click the "HTML" or "Text as HTML" tab in the edit/view window. On the HTML toolbar, there's a drop-down menu for settings. One of them is "delete scripts?". Click to turn on the checkmark. Note that you can also turn the HTML display off completely. See Tools | Options | Advanced | Use Internet Explorer To Display HTML? Both of these options apply to ClipMate 6 and ClipMate 7.
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
Are you a Firefox user? If you update to FireFox 1.5, ClipMate will be able to determine the "Source URL" for HTML clips that you copy from FireFox. Be sure to enable "HTML Format" in ClipMate's Application Profile for FireFox.
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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