xclip is a command line program which interacts with X11 clipboard.

To install it :

root@localhost:~# apt-get install xclip

To use, have a look at the example below :

fool@localhost:~$ ls |xclip

I have just listed the content of my current working directory and then put it to X11 clipboard through the “|” command.

To insert this content to a program like a GUI text editor, I have to paste by clicking on the middle button of my mouse.

xclip can receive the content of a whole file  :

fool@localhost:~$ xclip /etc/fstab

To display the content of xclip :

fool@localhost:~$ xclip -o

Free Download a Day has a way to Get ten clipboards in one with TenClips.

Get ten times the normal clipboard, for multiple things to paste as needed.

Parcellite es un ligero gestor de portapapeles -clipboard- escrito en GTK+, el cual es un muy buen reemplazo para Glipper, de hecho ya desinstale este ultimo (que por cierto solía darme bastante cuelgues en Jaunty, no se porque, así que ni me moleste en instalarlo en Arch).

Es bastante simple, con las características esenciales:

• Mantiene un historial del portapapeles.
• Varias opciones de visualización para mostrar los elementos de la forma en que te guste.
• Modo demonio, proteger su contenido del portapapeles al cerrar las aplicaciones. (supongo que no tendría sentido instalarlo sino tuviese esta funcionalidad no creen?).
• Teclas de acceso rápido globales para mostrar los elementos rápidamente.
• Ejecutar comandos personalizados utilizando el contenido del portapapeles.

Suficientes funciones para un gestor (según el traductor de Google XD ), ¿o no?

Para instalarlo en Arch:

sudo pacman -S parcellite

También se encuentra en los repos oficiales de Ubuntu [Universe] (para el caso de Intrepid hay que activar los backports para la versión mas actual), por lo que la instalación se reduce a abrir la consola y pegar:

sudo apt-get install parcellite

Listo. Para acceder a el basta con ir a Aplicaciones->Accesorios->Parcellite iniciando minimizado en el area de notificación.

Enlace: Pagina del proyecto

Well, as I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned, today was a ‘jour férié’. This is basically a bank holiday. But not like an English one where you get drunk in the middle of the day, and supermarkets operate Sunday opening hours. Oh no. I emerged this afternoon at 2pm (I missed Carrefour’s ‘ouverture exceptionnelle’) to be greeted by a ghost town at JFK. Seriously. It was quiet as it was normally at 7h45, if not quieter. So odd. That said, SuperAsya and Subway didn’t deem today important enough to close. After all, what’s a couple of dead soldiers against making money, eh? So, yes, Robert and I went to town, which was busy. Cafés were open, even some shops were open. All-in-all, I was disgusted. Disgusted that France didn’t do it’s bank holiday properly.

That said, when Robert and I emerged from Virgin Megastore, I got clipboarded. I thought “Run, run run!!” but my mouth said “D’accord”. So, after having asked to see the questions, I managed to survive. I expressed my satisfaction, and my dissatisfaction at how the store had recently swapped round the way the escalators work – you have to go to the back of the shop to get to the escalator taking you upstairs, passing one leading you out. She nodded and agreed that I had reason. Then it all finished, and we ran away. I was afraid. Afraid that there were more lurking about. Also, puzzled that she didn’t stop when she could clearly tell that I was not French, let alone not from around these parts.

It makes me cry to think, Not that.  Whenever I look around I find at least one thing for which this might be said.  Isn’t there an exception to every rule?  The stars, for instance, and the stone.  And from that one, say, Christ, there comes a whole new hope.  Yes.  That would be nice.  It is enough to climb out on my roof and look.  I check off names as if it were a roster in my hand.  A clipboard of names.  A catalogue.  The night has always been.  And I and you and they have not.  Should it find wonder in our faces, too?  Shouldn’t she discover which one of us today rises first and shines most like magnitude?  Tonight another part of me is dead, and yet the bulk still lives.

Utilissima applicazione per i webmaster e non solo! Se non l’hai mai usata non ti serve, ma se la usi la prima volta non puoi farne a meno. Quante volte ti sarà capitato di perdere un “copia/taglia” rimpiazzato da un nuovo? Quanto tempo impieghi per le quotidiane operazioni di copia, taglia e incolla?

Day Clipboard Utility può stare iconizzata e automaticamente cattura ogni testo copiato o immagine copiata (ad es: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X) che passa attraverso la clipboard di Windows, e salva automaticamente in TXT (i testi) e BMP (le immagini), assegnando anche i nomi dei file automaticamente col criterio cronologico in base alla data e orario del salvataggio. In una sottocartella chiamata “dcu” ti ritrovi tutti i files txt/bmp che puoi aprire con l’applicazione stessa o con Notepad/Paint.

Gestisce testo, grafica e contiene all’interno vari accessori utili come un convertitore di testo da maiuscolo a minuscolo e viceversa, una utility per gli appunti veloci con salvataggio automatico alla chiusura ed un piccolo elegante orologio digitale che mostra data e orario.

Si tratta di una applicazione portatile e quindi non è richiesta alcuna installazione; inoltre può comodamente stare in un floppy disk. Questa applicazione è anche leggera: occupa soltanto pochi bytes e può girare su vecchi PC. Day Clipboard Utility è completamente gratuita!

Sistemi Operativi supportati: Windows 95 98 ME 2000 2003 NT XP VISTA e Windows 7.

Informazioni e materiale di riferimento: http://www.applicazioni.it/applicazioni/Day_Clipboard_Utility.htm (informazioni generiche, caratteristiche, cambi, download, immagini, altro).

Documentazione estesa: http://www.applicazioni.it/applicazioni/applicazioni%20review.htm(contatti e foto circa l’autore e l’azienda, recensioni e riconoscimenti, altri software, altro).

Circa l’azienda:
Dalla sua nascita nel 1999, Daydreams (www.daydreams.it) effettua servizi informatici vari, corsi di informatica, sviluppo software, creazione di siti web, internet marketing, soluzioni e realizzazione di reti di computer cablate o wireless, pubblicità strategica ed altri servizi.

Circa l’autore:
Davide Lunghi è l’autore di Day Clipboard Utility e di altri software per Daydreams Informatica.
+39-0775-395073

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Per ulteriori informazioni contattare Daydreams Informatica +39-0775-244143 infos http://www.daydreams.it

More Spotify stuff? Yep. I’ve been meaning to write about a few of these nifty things for a while, but never had the time to do so.

This time I’d like to bring you Toastify. Again, sorry mobile broadband users, this is another thing that won’t work for us on our smart phones.

You’re probably wondering what Toastify is, and I hate to tell you this… But, no. It doesn’t enable your toaster to play Spotify, although that does remind me of the dancing toaster from Ghost Busters. Feel free to leave if you thought you were going to find some kind of self powering, dancing toaster.

Anyway, on to what it really does: Toastify is an open source application that improves Spotify. The app does this by offering two things:

• Hotkeys – Control Spotify from any other application, including things like games. Just hi-jacked a car rental in GTA and want to play faster music? Skip tracks from in-game! The default hot keys:
  • Ctrl Alt Up = Play/Pause
  • Ctrl Alt Down = Stop
  • Ctrl Alt Right = Next track
  • Ctrl Alt Left = Previous track
  • Ctrl Alt M = Mute on/off
  • Ctrl Alt Page Up = Volume up (expirimental support)
  • Ctrl Alt Page Down = Volume down (expirimental support)
  • Ctrl Alt Space = Show toast
  • Ctrl Alt S = Show Spotify
  • Ctrl Alt C = Copy track information to clipboard New!
• “Toast” popups – These are the sort of pop ups you get when using MSN Messenger, a small pop up above the task bar will show you what song is playing when it first starts.

ClipMenu 0.4.0 (2009-10-20) Naotaka Morimoto

새롭게 추가된 기능(0.3.5와 비교):

• 최초 실행 시 자동 실행 여부 확인

• 기본 단축키를 ^⌘V, ^⌘B에서 ⇧⌘V, ⇧⌘B로 변경. (Adblock Plus, Firefox와 겹쳐서 나는 계속 ^⌘V, ^⌘B 사용)
• 일정 시간마다 자동으로 클립보드 내용 저장
• 클립보드 내용이 바뀐 경우 순서 재정렬
• 메뉴바 아이콘 변경 가능(아이콘 디자인: Dave Ulrich)

• 자동 업데이트(Sparkle) 기능 추가

Having trouble with pasting into Emacs? Use the function ‘clipboard-yank’, thus:

(global-set-key "\C-y" 'clipboard-yank)

Day Clipboard Utility: Utilissima applicazione per i webmaster e non solo! Se non l’hai mai usata non ti serve, ma se la usi la prima volta non puoi farne a meno. Quante volte ti sarà capitato di perdere un “copia/taglia” rimpiazzato da un nuovo? Quanto tempo impieghi per le quotidiane operazioni di copia, taglia e incolla? Può stare iconizzata e automaticamente cattura ogni testo o immagine copiata (CTRL+C) e salva automaticamente in TXT (i testi) e BMP (le immagini), assegnando anche i nomi dei file automaticamente col criterio cronologico in base alla data e orario del salvataggio. Nella cartella “dcu” ti ritrovi tutti i txt/bmp che puoi aprire con l’applicazione stessa o con Notepad/Paint.

It automatically captures every text or image copied (CTRL+C) and saves them in TXT and BMP files. It can be minimized and automatically captures every text or image copied (CTRL+C) and saves them in TXT (the text) and BMP (the images) files; it will also automatically name the files using the computer’s date and time stamp. You can find all the txt/bmp files that you have saved in the “dcu” folder and can open them using this application, or using Notepad/Paint.

Portable (installation not required).

GENERAL INFO:

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親愛的先人：

您一路好走，不管您到哪裡，我會永遠記住您的一切

也相信您會在新的一個世界，找到寧靜與和平

The cutest little mini-clipboards!  These are the perfect size to hold Post-it notes.  I think they’d be adorable decorations on the wall with a simple white card with a letter or somesuchthing clipped to them.

. . .

These tiny clipboards are on little keychains!  Sheet music is always a great touch, as are tiny birds.  The two elements together are unbearably cute!

Back when I was on Yahoo Answers, I saw a question that was very similar to this. Since I don’t have a photographic memory, I’m going to paraphrase it. It went something like, ‘I’ve copied many photos off the Internet, but I can only seem to paste the last item I’ve copied. How can I access the previously copied items?’ I was struck that this was a basic operation on all operating systems with a GUI, and yet I didn’t know it! Well, being the researcher that I am, I looked it up instantly.

Funny function, ‘Ctrl + C’ is. I remembered from Harry Potter when McGonagall was entering Ravenclaw’s common room, she was asked, ‘Where do vanished objects go?’, to which she replied, ‘Into non-being, which is to say, everything.’ While the arcane field of magic contradicts with the precise nature of computer science, the answer proves to be a good representation of what the clipboard is.

Simply put, the clipboard is a temporary, stack-based memory storage location, which, after you logout, will clear its contents. When you copy things from different places, our PCs seem to be able to magically access and transfer the copied data across completely different applications. But, as we now know, the copied data (copying is evoked, or called forth, by user input, which is linked to the programming interface, or the friendly screen we see, e.g. in Windows, Ctrl + C is copy because Microsoft defines it to be, not because it’s there by coincidence) is stored in a location in volatile (temporary) memory called the clipboard, which is accessed by applications through the defined user input (or Ctrl + C in Windows, Command + C in Mac).

However, a clipboard is stack-based. It means that every new item you copy in an operating system is stacked on top of the last item, replacing it. So, by default, most applications only allow one instance of a clip (the copied object) to be stored in the clipboard (the memory location).

This drawback is defined by some applications, in which software developers and programmers develop a clipboard manager, allowing for multiple instances of clips to be stored. For example, Microsoft Word allows up to 24 clips to be stored in the 2003 and 2007 versions.

To access the clip in the 2003 version, you can simply go to Edit à Office Clipboard to display the window. (If an icon that looks like is in the status bar, then it’s already on.)

To access the clipboard in the 2007 version, you can simply click on the clipboard button as seen below:

Clipboard Access

(Note: You have to click the tiny arrow beside it.)

And the clipboard will be shown:

Clipboard Image

For convenience, it’s easier to simply automatically have the clipboard pop-up every time you open Word. You can do this through clicking at the options button below, and checking the ‘Show Office Clipboard Automatically’ radio button.

In Vista, when you switch on Clipboard, a clipboard icon will appear in the status bar (at the bottom of your window). Double clicking it will open the clipboard window in the active Office application (i.e. Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Groove, OneNote, etc., whichever you’ve got on top).

Clipboard in Status Bar

But, note that clipboard can only be used in the Office suite. You can’t use it for applications such as Photoshop or Fireworks.

(Obviously, the ‘trick’ is to open a Word window all times, so you can have the clipboard manager open to use. You paste it once, and copy and paste it again in your other application.)

Hope you found this useful! (Sorry, techies, this is for newbies like myself, but check out the programming sub-category in computer section, I’ll be doing some more articles when I get more proficient in programming! XD)

Share your thoughts on this post!! XD

I sometimes need to capture series of screenshots in an ordered sequence. I prefer to avoid having to click into a utility to save them one at a time.

I wrote the utility pic2file so that I could easily capture these screen images or window images.

Here is the C# source code:

pic2file.cs

// pic2file.cs - Automatically save bitmaps on the clipboard
// to the filesystem.
//
// License: MIT / X11
// Copyright (c) 2009 by James K. Lawless
// jimbo@radiks.net http://www.radiks.net/~jimbo
// http://www.mailsend-online.com
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
// obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
// files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
// restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
// copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
// Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
// conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
// included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
// EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
// OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
// NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
// HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
// WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
// FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
// OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

using System ;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Threading;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Pic2File
{
   public class Pic2File
   {
        [STAThread]
	   public static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         ImageFormat fmt;
         string dir,prefix,outputFile,suffix;
         int i;
         int count;
         fmt=ImageFormat.Jpeg;
         suffix=".jpg";
         dir=".\";
         prefix="p2f_";
         bool beep=false;
         count=0;
         Console.WriteLine(
            "\nPic2File by Jim Lawless - jimbo@radiks.net\n");
         Syntax();        

         for(i=0;i<args.Length;i++)
         {
               // Play a sound when img files are saved
            if(args[i].ToLower().Equals("-beep"))
            {
               beep=true;
            }
            else
            if(args[i].ToLower().Equals("-dir"))
            {
               dir=args[i+1];
                  // make sure we have an
                  // ending slash
               if( ! dir.EndsWith("\"))
                  dir+="\";
               i++;
            }
            else
            if(args[i].ToLower().Equals("-prefix"))
            {
               prefix=args[i+1];
               i++;
            }
            else
            if(args[i].ToLower().Equals("-gif"))
            {
               fmt=ImageFormat.Gif;
               suffix=".gif";
            }
            else
            if(args[i].ToLower().Equals("-jpg"))
            {
               fmt=ImageFormat.Jpeg;
               suffix=".jpg";
            }
            else
            if(args[i].ToLower().Equals("-png"))
            {
               fmt=ImageFormat.Png;
               suffix=".png";
            }
            else
            if(args[i].ToLower().Equals("-bmp"))
            {
               fmt=ImageFormat.Bmp;
               suffix=".bmp";
            }
            else
            if(args[i].ToLower().Equals("-tiff"))
            {
               fmt=ImageFormat.Tiff;
               suffix=".tif";
            }
            else
            {
               Console.WriteLine("Unknown option " + args[i]);
               return;
            }
         }

            // Write the selected options to the console
         Console.WriteLine("\nWork directory: " + dir);
         Console.WriteLine("Filename prefix: " + prefix);
         Console.WriteLine("Image format: " + suffix);
         Console.WriteLine("Play beep on save: " + beep );

            // Create the work dir, if necessary
         if( ! Directory.Exists(dir))
         {
            Console.WriteLine("Creating directory " + dir);
            Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);
         }

            // Now, loop waiting for data to appear on the Clipboard
         Console.WriteLine("\nWaiting...\n");
         IDataObject cdata;

         for(;;)
         {
            Thread.Sleep(100);
            Application.DoEvents();

            cdata=Clipboard.GetDataObject();
            if(cdata==null)
               continue;

            if(cdata.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Bitmap))
            {
                  // Loop until we have a unique filename
               for(;;)
               {
                  outputFile=dir+prefix+count+suffix;
                  if( ! File.Exists(outputFile))
                     break;
                  count++;
               }
               Console.Write("Saving " + outputFile + " ... " );
               Image im=(Image)cdata.GetData(DataFormats.Bitmap,true);
               im.Save(outputFile,fmt);
               Console.WriteLine("done.");
               if(beep)
                  System.Media.SystemSounds.Beep.Play();
               count++;
               Clipboard.Clear();
            }
         }
      }
      public static void Syntax()
      {
         Console.WriteLine("Syntax:\tPic2File.exe -dir dir_to_store_pics -prefix filename_prefix -beep [ -gif -png -tiff -jpg -bmp ]\n");
         Console.WriteLine("The default output format is -jpg.\n");
      }
   }
}

Upon invoking pic2file, you will see:

Pic2File by Jim Lawless - jimbo@radiks.net

Syntax: Pic2File.exe -dir dir_to_store_pics -prefix filename_prefix -beep [ -gif
 -png -tiff -jpg -bmp ]

The default output format is -jpg.

Work directory: .\
Filename prefix: p2f_
Image format: .jpg
Play beep on save: False

Waiting...

If you have an image waiting on the Clipboard or if you press the Print Screen key, you’ll then see a message that might look like the following:

Saving .\p2f_0.jpg ... done.

Pic2file loops continuously. It pauses for 100 milliseconds, then tries to pull bitmap image data from the clipboard. If such data is present, it will save it to an incrementally-numbered file and will conditionally play an audible sound if the -beep option has been specified.

If you right-click an image on a web page and click your browser’s option to copy the image to the Clipboard, pic2file will also save the image.

Pressing Alt-Print Screen will copy an image of the current window to the Clipboard. Pic2file will then save this image to a file.

After an image has been saved, pic2file erases the data on the Clipboard.

The source and executable file for pic2file can be downloaded in a single archive at:
http://www.mailsend-online.com/wp/pic2file.zip

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Unless otherwise noted, all code and text entries are Copyright © 2009 by James K. Lawless

Habt ihr euch auch schon mal geärgert, weil anstelle des kopierten Textes ein anderer eingefügt wurde? Zwischendurch habt ihr einen anderen Text kopiert, und nun ist der gewünschte Text nicht mehr auffindbar. Genau hier setzt Clyppan an: Das Programm speichert alles, was ihr per ⌘C oder wie auch immer in die Zwischenablage kopiert habt und listet dieses auf.

Das Programm nistet sich in die Menüzeile ein und steht dort auf Mausklick bereit. Die Bedienung ist simpel: ein Doppelklick auf einen älteren Eintrag, und schon landet dieser wieder in der Zwischenablage, kann also gleich irgendwo eingefügt werden. Doch noch einfacher ist die Bedienung per Tastatur: mit ⇧⌘C öffnet man Clyppan, die Pfeiltasten benutzt man zum Auswählen des gesuchten Eintrages und mit Enter holt man ihn zurück ins Clipboard (Der englische Begriff für die etwas holprig klingende “Zwischenablage”). Dabei wird Clyppan auch gleich wieder geschlossen – perfekt!

Die Möglichkeit, die “Clippings” zu durchsuchen und die Funktion “Rapid Paste” (ein Clipping nach dem anderen aus der Liste einfügen) runden das Angebot ab. Das klingt so, als sei Clyppan kostenpflichtig, dem ist aber nicht so: Auf der Webseite des Entwicklers kann man sich Clyppan kostenlos herunterladen. Es kommt als .zip-Datei, die in der Regel automatisch entpackt wird, ihr müsst also nur noch Clyppan in euren “Programme”-Ordner ziehen.

Es empfiehlt sich natürlich, dass Clyppan beim Systemstart gleich mit startet. Wie man das einstellt, habe ich hier erklärt.

不知道自己算不算是個愛飆淚的人, 在別人面前, 是很堅強不容許自己掉下眼淚讓人看見

但私底下可以為了一個小的景象或是一句話, 感動到一種莫名的無法控制自己的眼淚

這樣的反應是不是足夠說明了歷練不夠的我, 在每一天的時時刻刻學著如何讓自己的眼淚不容易的掉下

還是生為某種星座特質的我, 意味著我是個敢愛又敢恨的人

I decided that I need a blog.  I had earlier in my life used a personal blog on livejournal.com, but I want something more professional now.  It will be as much for myself as for any readers, and so it won’t bother me any if there are none.  I intended to use it to catalogue and index my open source software dealings.  Very often I find I have spent several hours on googling, reading man pages, and testing out esoteric command line sentences setting up some platform.  Sometimes I’ll find myself needing to do that same setup again down the road, and I will find myself searching my google history (hoping I was logged in to google) and grepping my bash history (assuming I still have it).

I need a place to store this stuff and keep it organized.  That’s what this blog is.  A record of those technical notes, commands, and links.