AccelClip: What Is It?

AccelClip is a clipboard extension for Windows. It is more than a clipboard viewer though. It is more like a Personal Information Manager that one can use by organizing the clippings one gets through copy (CTRL+C) operations.

Clipboard Features

 
Your Windows clipboard acts like a buffer for text or images that you copy. When you paste these on any application, Windows takes them from the clipboard. There is however one problem with your native Windows application: you can copy and paste an item one at a time. This means that once you copy a new item, the previous one is lost forever. AccelClip at its most basic use is to extend your clipboard’s functionality by keeping a record of all the items that you copy to the clipboard. An y item, whether text, URL, or image — AccelClip keeps until you decide to delete it.

While other clipboard extensions can allow you to have your clip items saved as *.clp files that you can reopen later on, AccelClip would allow you to save them as individual files. This is not only true for text items but also for images as well.

Saving and Editing Clips

AccelClip saves your copied items into individual files:

• URLs and Code Snippets are saved as *.txt
• RTF (Rich Text Format) fragments are saved as *.rtf
• Images can be saved in different formats

AccelClip also allows one to edit not only text files but also images!

Below is an image of the RTF editor

An image clip is editable via different means:

Classify, Arrange, CategorizeAccelClip as a Personal Information Manager

One of the things I like about this program is that it allows one to categorize clipboard items through drag-and-drop. The installation comes with default categories but one can add to these:

In the example above, I have added URLs, Codes and Tags, Screenshots. The categories are in a tree-like structure and makes AccelClip function also as a Personal Information Manager. It can also store your Passwords and protect them and any of your clip collections from prying eyes.

File Browser

One of AccelClip’s functions that I’ve not seen in other clipboard extensions to browse for files in one’s hard disk. This is particularly useful when one has to find a most often used document in one’s hard disk. AccelClip gets the exact location for you and makes it available as a text file OR as an OLE package OR — and this is really unexpected — to paste the object into another Windows subdirectory!

There is another way of making AccelClip’s file browser work for you. One can for example get an image file directly from the hard disk into the graphic editor of AccelClip and from there, copy a selection of it (or just right-click on it and select "Copy to collection…") and make it available as a clip item for future use. The same operation can be repeated for plain text and RTF files, including *.DOC files. (If you don’t have MS Office converters, Excel files will not supported by this function although AccelClip offers the possibility of letting you open the document through its interface.)

How about the *.clp files from another ClipBoard extension software? AccelClip can read *.clp files and can make them available through the process described above.

Interface

AccelClip has an interface that allows one to work with it easily. One can work with it using four kinds of interface: expert, simple, clipboard-only and another one that you can specify (custom mode) Below is the expert mode interface of AccelClip.

Additional Options

AccelClip allows for a lot of customization. One can for example create additional keyboard short cuts and add toolbars to the menu.

Conclusion

After this brief review of the features of AccelClip how can we describe it? It is really a clipboard extension but it is more than that. It is also data organizer, a clip editor and a Windows Packager all rolled into one. Get AccelClip from FlexigenSoft,try it for yourself and see how it can make copy-and-paste operations not only easy but also enjoyable