Clipboard Inspector

Saturday May 13, 2006 @ 10:45 AM (PDT)

I've just released Clipboard Inspector, a handy little tool I wrote that monitors the Windows clipboard and displays its contents in a variety of formats. It'll display clipboard data in Bitmap, CSV, File, HTML, RTF, Text, and Unicode Text formats, and you can save the data to a file if you wish. It'll even export clipboard bitmaps to GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF, so it's pretty handy for saving screenshots taken with ALT+PrintScreen. And of course, it's free. Enjoy.

Comments

I've always wondered if there were something out there that could do this.

Freeware for now, but I'll make the source available if people want it. It wasn't a particularly hard program to write, though, so releasing the source almost didn't seem worth the trouble, since it's not really anything special.

Now I don't have to fire up a clunky graphics editor to save screenshots in a compressed format. Very helpful!

I can use it when I am stealing Funny Pictures from WayStupid.com! Haha. Seriously though, this is a really cool idea. I am utterly shocked that Microsoft didn't build that feature into windows.

It would be even more awesome if it used PNGOUT!! I would never really have to leave the application for another when messing about with images to be captured and saved.

PNGOUT already has an option to retrieve a bitmap from the clipboard. You don't even need Clipboard Inspector.

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