Posted in General Clipboard Use on Mar 18th, 2008
Vista includes a program: clip.exe which will direct standard command prompt (DOS prompt) output to the clipboard. Just “pipe” or “here document” to clip.exe and the result goes to the clipboard.
ex: echo “hello, world!” | clip
ex: dir | clip
ex: clip < readme.txt
Again, this is available on Vista. If you are using older versions of Windows, […]
Posted in General Clipboard Use on Jan 9th, 2008
You can easily clear the clipboard to remove sensitive information. Just copy something else, and it’ll overwrite the clipboard. By default, windows has no “clipboard history”. Unless you’re running a clipboard manager (such as ClipMate), you can clear the clipboard by copying something else on top of it. If you are worried about a co-worker […]
Posted in General Clipboard Use on Nov 9th, 2007
If you visit a website and are asked if you’d like to allow the site to read your clipboard, you probably want to say NO. Unless you’re expecting the web page to be reading your clipboard, you should not allow it. It could be something sneaky, possibly gathering passwords or credit card information.
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