My friend Clif, over at FreewareWiki, has published a review of Ditto, an Open Source clipboard manager. You can read it here.

Clipboard managers save all the stuff that you’ve copied to the Windows clipboard, so that you can clip several things without bothering to paste each one, or go back to things you clipped and pasted previously. There are at least a dozen clipboard managers, freeware and paid, on the Web. The best ones will handle most any kind of file you want to copy, from text to image formats.

For years I’ve been using Memorizer, a shareware offering from AYLabs.com. It combines a number of features into a simple interface that I like a lot. I think I may be replacing it with Ditto, however. It’s powerful, the interface is intuitive, it has features that Memorizer hasn’t dreamed of, and will do one thing that no clipboard manager I’ve ever seen will do: copy and paste text directly from a .pdf file*. If you do much online research, you know that’s huge! (I’m not saying no other program will, but I don’t know about any.)

What’s not to like? It’s Open Source, free, and it works. Give it a shot. If you’ve never used a clipboard manager, you’ll wonder how you ever… ah… managed without Ditto.

*One caveat. I use Foxit PDF Reader, and don’t have Adobe Reader on my machines to test. I assume Ditto will copy and paste out of Reader, since it will out of Foxit.

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