I love discovering new neat things on my mac, and today I stumbled upon OS X's built in clipboard switcher which allows for multiple copies and pastes to be saved and accessed at any time.
You can access the clipboard switcher by adding the shift key to the normal cmd+c or cmd+v keyboard shortcuts. To add a new clipboard entry to the manager, just select the text you want to copy and press cmd+shift+c. To paste, select where you want the text/image to be pasted and then double click which copy you would like pasted.
A few other finder keyboard shortcuts that I also discovered today are:
instant access to the Applications folder: cmd+shift+A
instant access to the Utilities folder: cmd+shift+U
instant access to the Desktop: cmd+shift+D
and my personal favorite,
instant google search of selected text: cmd+shift+L
UPDATE:
A recent machints.com article adds that you can also drag selected text to the safari icon in your dock to perform an instant google search
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080619191307294
1 comment:
Mitch, you said: “You can access the clipboard switcher by adding the shift key to the normal cmd+c or cmd+v keyboard shortcuts. To add a new clipboard entry to the manager, just select the text you want to copy and press cmd+shift+c. To paste, select where you want the text/image to be pasted and then double click which copy you would like pasted.”
I tried this on OS X 10.5.4 and it didn't work. In Mail it brought up the color chart. In Safari, it didn't do anything. What am I missing here? SlimJIm
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