That is the case with my favourite freeform database, DEVONthink Office Pro, but also with Pocket, Evernote, Omnifocus, TextSoap, etc, etc. It appears a good many developers liked the idea of PopClip so much, they wrote an extension for it. But the main and major reason why you'll want to buy and install PopClip is that it comes with a long list of extensions - all for free! This basic install of PopClip is just and only an improvement on what OS X lets you do with keystrokes as well, although it saves you a few clicks and Return-key hits as well. It will work with the keyboard too, but that's not as smooth as using it with a mouse - you'll have to install an extra script, and use keyboard keys to navigate. All without having to lift one finger from your Magic Trackpad, mouse or whatever pointing device you're using. The basic install of PopClip allows you to cut, copy and paste, search for the term you selected, open the link or use the email address you selected, reveal in the Finder, open the Dictionary, and correct your spelling. It is a deceivable app in its simplicity: when installed all it does, is it will give you an action bar that appears whenever you select text, a link, an email address, anything that you can work with, except images and video clips. PopClip is a little app that lives in your menubar. I expect PopClip to have the same effect. Today I rely on Typinator for saving (much) time. It took me well over a year after I'd reviewed Typinator before I finally decided to really try using it in my daily work. In many cases, they only take up memory space and make your life more miserable as a result of your Mac choking on them. For example, when you select a string of words, the popup menu will show actions that you’d perform on words (e.g., search in Google, cut/copy, word count).I'm not a huge fan of applications that seemingly make your life easier. This means that they are triggered when it makes sense for them to be available. Extensions are quick and easy to install/uninstall and they’re smart. Users and developers have created useful PopClip add-ons to popular third-party apps like Evernote, OmniFocus, and Skype, and it seems that a few new ones appear every month. In addition to the default set, there are currently over 100 extensions available, putting the actions you need-from image search to unit conversion-at your fingertips. It is the extra actions available through the PopClip extension library that make PopClip much more powerful and, for this user, essential. While the ability perform the actions shown in the screenshots above is nice, it frankly wouldn’t make it a must-have utility for most users. And importantly, PopClip is so well integrated and feels so native that you’d swear it was part of the operating system. Since I spend much of my time at the computer dealing with text (writing, editing, copying, pasting, formatting, searching for terms, etc.), any piece of software that can reduce friction as I manipulate text is a plus. Unlike some of Apple’s own iOS-ification which seems more cosmetic than truly useful, PopClip scratches a productivity itch right where I need it-with text handling. Nevertheless, the consensus seems to be that some degree of OS convergence is inevitable. And some features were removed: the iWork productivity suite ( Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) was overhauled “to support a unified file format between OS X and iOS 7 versions” but the removal of key features made quite a few users unhappy. Some features were added: the five-finger pinch gesture on the trackpad of a MacBook Pro brings up the iOS-style view of the applications via Launchpad, and since OS X 10.7, “natural scrolling” has been the default way to scroll. He can be reached through the center’s website: a longtime Mac user who does not own an iOS device, I have been somewhat reluctant to embrace the steady “iOS-ification” of the Mac-you know, the aesthetic and functional bits that were introduced to OS X that borrowed from iOS (iPhone, iPad). [ This is a guest post by Jim Cracraft, a Language Teaching Specialist and technology coordinator at Vanderbilt University‘s English Language Center (ELC), which offers English language support to individuals who have a first language other than English.
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