Comments on: You Must iClip

By: tortoise

tortoise — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:45:47 +0000

I went to the PTH website when I saw your comment. I looked at the screenshots. It still looks as pretty as it did the first time. (This isn’t a compliment.) I will probably stick with iClip.

I wasn’t crazy about iClip 4’s new colors. I’m hoping they offer skins or something. But the functionality of iClip really works for me.

By: John M

John M — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:28:11 +0000

Did you check out version 4 of PTH? Try that out first, its a lot nicer then the previous revs and does all the stuff iClip does.

By: tortoise

tortoise — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:10:24 +0000

@Devin
Thanks!

@John M
I used PTH Pasteboard (among others) when I first started looking at multiple-clipboard software. It was free, and iClip’s price was more than I wanted to pay at the time. I found PTH so clunky, unintuitive and awful to use that I switched. To iClip lite (which was free). Then I just switched to iClip. I think it’s worth the money. But, hey, if PTH works for you, then stick with it.

By: John M

John M — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:57:13 +0000

Version 3 was OK but 4 looks horrible. I switched over to PTH Pasteboard from http://pth.com which is not only free but let’s me see the contents of the clipboard.

By: Devin

Devin — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:10:38 +0000

Great review on iClip! I can see why you won the prize.

By: tortoise

tortoise — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:07:38 +0000

Thank you. I was pretty surprised to win with all the reviews that were submitted. Tell you the truth, I feel pretty darn good about it.

That Terminal command is below. I’ve put it on multiple lines for readability, but you want to enter it into Terminal with no line breaks.
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

I got it from the Best of Mac OS X Hints video (a 96 MB download).

By: jason catudal

jason catudal — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:54:39 +0000

hi, i too blogged about iclip and noticed that you won the contest for best use. i am curious about the terminal command you mentioned to get a screen saver as your desktop. could you share it with me? i’d heard that that was possible. perhaps you know if there’s a way to get a movie to play also?

thanks and congratulations on your win!