Paste
Master is an easy to use clipboard manager controlled by a preference
pane that
allows you to save multiple items that you have placed in the clipboard
and be able to paste them again later. It has the following
advantages:
- Compact grid display allows you to see and
select from many saved clipboards at once.
- Recognition of common text types in clipboards
allows convenient pasting options when pasting data.
- You can delete individual or ALL saved
clipboards (for example if they contain sensitive data).
- You can lock clipboards so they are not
displaced by new ones.
- Clipboards are also available from a menu in the menu bar.
Paste
Master allows you to display
up to 99 items in a compact manner, making it easy to quickly find
which one you want to paste again. Paste Master recognizes certain
types of text much like Apple's
Data Detectors, and allows you to paste them in special ways.
This feature is very useful when dealing with web or database forms
that force you to type things like phone numbers or social security
numbers in separate fields, or force you to enter phone numbers with
just decimal digits. Furthermore, you can paste clipboards as
unformatted text even if they are formatted. This is useful
if
you want pasted text to inherit the formatting of the application you
are pasting into.
Recognition Of Special Text Types
Paste Master allows you to copy a phone
number in several different formats and paste them in their current
form, as separate fields, or as just digits 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:

Paste Master currently supports several types, as shown
below.
More types and paste options will be added in the future, based on
demand.
| Type |
Examples(s) |
Can be pasted |
|
| Phone |
202-345-6789 |
As is, as individual fields, or as just the
digits |
| Number |
789-456-1234
x5678 |
As is, as individual fields, or as just the
digits |
 |
(202) 345-6789 |
As is, as individual fields, or as just the
digits |
|
(789) 456-1234 x5678 |
As is, as individual fields, or as just the
digits |
|
| Multiple |
234-23-0500 (e.g., an
SSN) |
As is or as individual fields |
Fields 
|
xcy-kjy-oiuy-po34
(e.g., registration code) |
As is or as individual
fields |
|
| Multiple |
John Woodward
|
As is or as individual words |
Words 
|
All text types can also be pasted unformatted.
Clipboards Grid Display
Here is an example 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.
You
click an item or type its number to paste it. Only the first
9
items have a number. 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).
Item 2, marked with a , has been
recognized as mutiple words,
so command-clicking 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.
Items 3 and 4, marked with an , have been
recognized as having
multiple fields (like a social security number), so command clicking
pastes each field separately.
Items 5 & 6, marked with ,
have been recignized as phone numbers, so (by default) command-clicking pastes as
fields, or option-clicking pastes all digits together.
Right-clicking any item shows you all the options for that item and
allows you to choose:
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. Note that deleting all clipboards
clears the system clipboard, which may be useful as a security measure.
Menu Bar Icon
You
can optionally have Paste Master display its icon in the menu bar, as
shown at the right. In addition to the functions above the line,
each clipboard is listed below the line. Choosing the clipboard pastes
it. The modifier keys 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 and 10.6
systems, but will be marked with a check mark on 10.3 or 10.4 systems
(because of a Mac OS limitation).
Shortcuts
Several
modifier keys and combinations provide shortcuts for choosing special
functions from the above menu. 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) as described below.
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.
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 items to position 1", 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 position 1, shifting
others up by one. You have the option to save all clipboards across reboots or restarts of Paste Master.
The Shortcuts tab allows you to change the default modifier keys that provide shortcuts in the clipboard grid or menu:

The Clipboard Display
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.
Macintosh
Requirements
Paste Master is a Cocoa (MacOS X only)
application. It
runs
on 10.3 and higher, including Snow Leopard. Universal
Binary.
It is required that the keyboard shortcut on your
system to paste is command-v, the common default.
Version
History
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 clipoard 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
Paste Master is shareware. You can try it out for
30
days,
but if you still use it thereafter, you must register it. The
price is very reasonable--$8. After 30 days, Paste
Master
will not work unless you have registered it.
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.
Paste Master Copyright © 2009 John Woodward. All
rights
reserved.
You
may distribute Paste Master unmodified via any media, as long as you
keep it together with its Read Me file.
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