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05/06/2008, 2:00am, EDT
Tuesday, May 6th
Script Software offers CopyPaste Pro beta
Script Software on Monday debuted CopyPaste Pro 1.0b, a beta update to the original multiple clipboard utility for the Mac. It offers a new instantly available window (like Apple's Application Switcher) that lets users navigate through the Clip History and Clip Archive as well as offers an editor called "Bean," which enables the users to edit clipboards. Rewritten in Cocoa and Objective C, the update also offers a new easier and simpler interface that follows the look and feel of Apple's Dock and Application Switcher and offers significant performance improvements, especially on Intel-based Macs and in Leopard. CopyPaste Pro is a Universal Binary for native operation on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs and runs on both Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
The software also allows users to browse any clip archive, drag images from Safari (to the clip history) and save all clips through restarts as well as provides tools to act on clip data.
CopyPaste Pro is $20 while in beta and will be priced at $30 after May 12th.
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No, it's not beta!
I don't understand how this blunder was made by MacNN. But I can tell you as a long term beta tester for CopyPaste Pro that it is most emphatically OUT of beta. The beta testing is over.
What you get is the finished version of 1.0.0. Tada! And I like it a lot. It is much better than the previous PPC version and is almost worth the wait time. (It did take a long time to finish). It still has a couple bugs, as do any version 1.0 products, no surprise. But just yesterday I got a note from the developer asking for further testing to stomp them out.
Meanwhile, the pricing schedule until May 12 is totally kewl. Grab this most excellent, and IMHO, critical shareware for cheap while you can. Compare it to the freebie alternatives and see what I mean. [I am a real person, not a paid actor].
;-Derek
Re- No, it's not beta!
Never mind. I see that Script Software chose the incorrect language. It is posted on their website:
"CopyPaste Pro is $20 while in beta. After May 12th the price rises to $30."
This does indeed infer that CPP is in beta. Except that it's not. Beta is over and done, amen. Instead, this is a preliminary pricing period where you get to save ten bucks. Well worth it. That's why I bothered to beta test this baby for many months.
:-Derek
Ease of use left behind
After spending a lot of time testing the new version I became very frustrated by not being able to copy text to the new browser clipboard without using the keyboard or a convoluted dropdown menu. Also the text on the clips is too small to see readily and you must mouse over them to magnify and identify. And the browser opens across the screen taking up too much space. I found myself making several more steps than usual (unless I used the keyboard which I dislike having to do). I've written to Peter and hope he can address these issues.