links for 2009-10-22
Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by Kimberly in delicious
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A few months ago we provided some instructions for how to setup Dropbox to sync with your TextExpander snippets. The instructions have been used by many of you, but we have a better, less geeky way to accomplish the same thing going forward.
With the rise in popularity of “cloud computing,” third-party syncing services such as Dropbox have come on the scene, and with a bit of work, you can sync your snippets using it as a MobileMe alternative.
Dropbox is a free online storage service that synchronizes the data of a folder in your home directory with any other Mac you have the service installed on. When you make a change to a file or add something new to your Dropbox, their agent application will automatically push the changes to the cloud in the background and notify your other Macs of the change so they pull the update.
This works great for TextExpander because each time you create or modify a snippet, it saves the Settings.textexpander file that contains your settings and snippet
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ClipMenu can manage clipboard history. You can record 8 clipboard types, from plain text to image.
To paste a recorded item, you just pop up menu by invoking the shortcut key, and select a menu item from the menu.
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