AceText is a clipboard extender that does other things besides.  I have featured AccelClip which can keep both text and image clippings.  YankeeClipper and its commercial counterpart also can keep both text and images.  JGSoft’s AceText works only with text clippings but can perform other tasks that AccelClip and YankeeClipper were not designed to perform.

The first feature that is unique to AceText is that it integrates with EditPad Pro, JGSoft’s powerful text editor.  I recently upgraded my EditPad Lite to Pro and use it for working with the MySQL databases of Otium Sanctum.  EditPad Pro works with really large files (my Otium Sanctum database is almost 90 MB in size) and so it is the ideal text editor for continuous text files, like webpages and SQL data. 

When working with webpages, I often make use of copy-paste operations for often used tags.  AceText comes in handy since it can be used for creating a collection of clips of the HTML tags I often use (they are called snippets).  Since it integrates with EditPad Pro through this latter’s Clips Explorer, I just select the clips I want for pasting and these appear on the page being edited.

Since AceText clips function like a Personal Information Manager, I type them under different categories (or folders) and use them later on for other applications.  Usernames and passwords for webmail clients, for example, can be typed into AceText and later one can just click on these for pasting into Windows Clipboard and from there to a webform.  Clip collections containing sensitive data can be locked thanks to AceText’s security feature.

 AceText doesn’t work with images.  But for one who works with a lot of text clippings, it can be a very useful addition to one’s desktop applications.