![]() The clipboard is the place where your Mac stores the item you most recently copied. You can see what’s stored there by opening Finder and then choosing Edit > Show Clipboard. When you do this, a small window will pop up and show you what’s being stored and what type of content it is. For example, my clipboard contains a sentence of plain text, but it can also store images or files. To copy something to the clipboard, select it and then press Command + C, and to paste it press Command + V. Note: This clipboard feature is pretty limited since you can only see one thing at a time and you can’t recover old items that you’ve copied. If you want to copy multiple things, you’ll need to install a clipboard tool to accomplish this. There are a lot of options, so here are a few of our favorites. JumpCut is an open-source clipboard tool that will allow you to see your full clipboard history as needed. It’s not the fanciest app, but it has been around for a while and will work reliably. When you do download it, you will probably see a message saying the app can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. This is completely normal – by default, your Mac tries to protect you from potential viruses by preventing unrecognized programs from running. Since this is a safe app, you can go to System Preferences > General and pick “Open Anyways” to allow Jumpcut to run. Or you can go to Applications, locate the app, right-click and select Open. Learn how to install flycut-clipboard-manager.apk file on your phone in 4 Simple Steps. Note: Not comfortable with allowing JumpCut on your Mac? Fl圜ut is a “fork” of JumpCut – this means it’s a version of JumpCut built by a separate team to add additional features by building on the original application. APK (Android Package Kit) files are the raw files of an Android app. It looks and functions almost exactly the same, however, unlike JumpCut, you can get Fl圜ut from the Mac App Store. ![]() Once installed, Jumpcut will appear as a small scissors icon in your menu bar. The list shows a sample of whatever you’ve copied, like this: Once you’ve copied and pasted a few things, a list will start to form. Unlike the software developed for Windows system, most of the applications installed in Mac OS X generally can be removed with relative ease. ![]() To use a particular clipping, just click on it, then press Command + V to paste it where you want to use it. Jumpcut is limited to text clippings, and can’t store images for you. Flycut checks for new clippings every time you open Flycut on iOS. You can modify the hotkey and other settings from preferences. ![]() You can later paste it using Shift/Command-V, even if there is something else in your clipboard. Flycut saves every time you copy code pieces to your Macs history. If you’re looking for something a little fancier that can support more than just text, Paste is a good alternative. Jumpcut is the open-source app that inspired it. You can find it on the Mac App Store (where it’s actually called Paste 2) for $14.99, or you can get it for free with a Setapp subscription (which is what I’m using right now). Both versions are completely the same though. ![]()
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