Filed under: Text, Utilities, Macintosh
Shadow: network-enabled Mac clipboard manager
by Jay Hathaway Oct 8th 2008
Shadow is a clipboard utility for OS X. Nothing special about that, right? I mean, we covered a whole slew of good ones back in January. Hold on a minute, though, because Shadow puts a new twist on the classic clipboard-enhancement app: it lets you copy and paste across your network. That's right: Shadow uses Bonjour to let you use your clipboard across all your networked Macs. It has a lot of other useful features that any modern clipboard app needs, too. Multiple clipboards come in handy for organizing or keeping things private. A nice, bezel-style UI keeps the interface from being too obtrusive.
Although it's in public beta, Shadow is already highly usable. It records your clipboard history automatically, and you can summon it with a hotkey or the menu icon. Navigating your saved items is easy, and you can do an easy one-button paste with the spacebar. If you already have a clipboard manager, Shadow might be good enough replace it. If you don't, it's a good place to start.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
