Clipmate7
By Dorothy Alexander
President, SCUG
Software Created by:
Thornsoft Developments, Inc.
P.O. Box 164,
Spencerport New York 14559
Phone: 585/352-4223
http://www.thornsoft.com/index.htm support@thornsoft.com Price: $34.95 single-user - electronic download or purchase a CD for$9.95 including shipping $19.95 upgrade from Version 6 - electronic download Bonus Feature:
30 day evaluation period prior to purchase

System Requirements:
5.3 MB space
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro & Vista
It does NOT run on Linux, Mac, Palm or Pocket PC.

At some time or another all of us have wanted to copy something to another location. You say "yes" we use MS Clipboard. BUT, did you not find that each time you copy something it re-writes over the last item and it is GONE. Or perhaps you shut down your computer before copying it into a word document for safekeeping and it has also gone bye, bye. With ClipMate 7 you no longer have these concerns as it holds literally thousands of clips in the clipboard history.

You can copy Text Files, Bitmaps, HTML, Rich Text, Spreadsheet date or whatever, and use it a few minutes later, an hour later, or even days later. In fact clips can be stored indefinitely. You can store frequently used items, or ones that you absolutely do not want to misplace, in the "Safe" folder so that they cannot be deleted without confirmation.

Text that you copied can be edited in numerous ways using ClipMate 7, such as combining several clips together, doing a spell check (just right click on the word to check spelling) and even altering the text to suit your needs. If I were to go on line and look for URL's for a specific purpose, e.g. genealogy research, I could copy all of these URL's into ClipMate 7 and then print them, in the same order that I copied them, into a Word document.

The clips that you save can be categorized into various topics such as pictures, genealogy, permanent clips, club information clips, etc. Clips can be moved from one category to another with no problem. This feature certainly is great when you are trying to find a specific clip amongst the hundreds that you will soon accumulate.

You can copy photos, displayed on eBay for example, to ClipMate 7 and then paste to a Word document without any problem. They can be exported as either a BMP or JPEG file for use in a graphics program. I had misplaced a photo illustrated in one of my eBay ads and was able to capture it and replace it into My Photo file. Worked perfect.

One of the new features in version 7 includes drag-and-drop support, support for dual-monitor screengrabs, and virtual collections. Let me explain in Clipmate language. Virtual collections are really pre-defined searches, and do not actually hold data of their own. For example, the "today" collection is a query that searches for clips captured today. The "Bitmaps" collection is a query that searches for all clips containing Bitmaps.

Another important feature, in version 7, is the fact that you can now take it with you on your portable USB "thumb" drive. That will be a great asset for instance when you are collecting information at the library. I had a little trouble with this since I only have one computer presently so wrote for help. Once I downloaded the PortableApps directory on the thumb drive I then followed their instructions to download the portable installer. I brought it to the General Meeting of SCUG and tried it in the club computer and it works great. Nice feature.

Thornsoft offer excellent online help. A few titles within their support are: FAQ, Knowledge Base, Form (questions answered by an administrator) and Flash Tutorials. The later (Flash Tutorials) was very simple to follow and I found very helpful in setting things up.

There are many things to learn, but with the help of the visual aids you will find that you are learning in no time. It appears to do all the things they say it should do in the manner it should. I encourage you to at least give ClipMate 7 a 30 day trial. Once you use this program you will wonder why you never had it before as you will not be able to live without it!

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