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A good friend of mine turned me on to Pth Pasteboard and I couldn't be happier. At first, the idea of multiple pasteboard's didn't seem helpful to me, but after I started using it, I started realizing how frequently I was typing the same text over and over.

Another invaluable feature of Pth Pasteboard is Pasteboard Persistence - copying to your pasteboard becomes the same as saving! Unfortunately my 17" MBP has never been as stable as my trusty old 12" PowerBook was - every few weeks I'll get a crash, but it's amazing how frequently the data that I was so worried about loosing pops up on the pasteboard on the side of my screen!

Once you've been using Pasteboard for a while, you'll also find the text filters to be quite useful - especially for fixing up junk text that you copied from an email and need to forward on. Note, Pasteboard used to look a bit fugly, but the author recently added Anti-Aliasing - blends into the system quite well.

Give it a shot - I think you'll really enjoy this one!

I absolutely LOVE this application. It has transformed the way I work, making things easier and MUCH faster. Copy-and-paste was a great revolution in computing simplicity. PTH Pasteboard puts this simple function on steroids.

If you're not using this, you SHOULD be! :D

The folks at the Wenlin Institute have now opened an online store of their own. You can now buy Wenlin direct for only $199 (was $249 when I bought my license). It's available at [http://www.wenlin.com/shangdian/]

Sure wish the author of TextMate would support the standard Mac OS X "Accessibility Interface" and the standard text rendering interface that allows Unicode fonts to be used. There are some great features in TextMate, but if you are living outside of monolingual ASCIIville, or have special needs (vision impairment, etc) that require the standard apple accessibility API, you should look elsewhere.

Love it. Lightweight, fast, easy to use, extensible, has support from 3rd party apps (Transmit) and is cost effective. Did I mention that the syntax support is very very extensive and very accurate? Java, C/C++, Ruby, Perl, Python, and sed/awk scripts are great to code in this editor. The developer also personally responds to e-mails, and has a very good upgrade policy. He will give away TextMate 2.0 to people who upgrade to Leopard when it comes out. The new CoreData features offered by Leopard and new bundles in development internally and from ADC members are surely gonna make this even more of an awesome editor! Keep up the good work Allan Odgaard! Be sure to support this developer by buying his awesome and cost effective editor.

just this app is a reason to switch to OS X (if the other billion of reasons don't suite you)

I saw it in other places, but basically: If you like Emacs, you'll like TextMate. If you prefer vim, look at BBEdit. The chording, associations and methods are very emacs-ish.

Personally, TextMate is closed only long enough to pull the most recent code from svn.

the best editor E V E R. must have!

Want to search Google for "iPhone release date"? Bypass the google homepage and just type the following into your Safari address bar:
g iphone release date

You can do the same thing for any site on the internet. It works extremely well, and it's FREE! You could be saving yourself a lot of time.

The new "man:" protocol feature is excellent. Just enter "man:grep" into Safari, or man on anything else you want to check, and Safari will open the page via man2html.

Not sure if Safaristand has man page search, but there's always Bwana.

I have to admit that I laughed out loud when I saw your KeyClick download page... I thought to myself "who in the world would want this?", but then I went ahead and tried it anyway and this is so useful! It's especially useful when your computer suddenly slows down, and on high latency SSH connections it's worth all 250¢ and then some ;-)

Ryan Erwin

I'd argue it's even worth 500¢ (the going rate).

It just Didn't Work. It wouldn't stay turned "on" when I left and went back to system prefs. I tried to find support options at their site, but it seems like support was only available for their other products. Oh well.

Interesting idea, but it's not that funny...

MacBook's keyboard is very quiet and I find I touch-type faster and more confidently with some small feedback sound.

@rjbs: I was able to get a support response almost immediately. Not sure what the issue was.

Tabs. Full Screen mode. Anti-aliased fonts. Multiple sessions stored in that can be accessed via hot keys. If you use "ssh" or "vim" on Mac OS X, you should switch to iTerm. Excellent UTF-8 support. I would buy a license if it wasn't open source. I need to make a donation!

Terminal has tabs! Sorry, iTerm! :D

and it has anti aliased fonts too :)

Until Terminal.app supports 256 color terminals, I'll be using iTerm exclusively. The ability to command-click links to open them (rather than right-clicking) is another reason I'll stick with iTerm.

Crotchety choosy Unix supremacists choose iTerm!