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Hello folks! Thank you for checking out Clips. Visit the product page if you are curious about what Clips has to offer. I thought I would introduce you to a couple of my favorite features.
The Clips Panel
I think my most used feature of Clips is the Panel. Pictured on the right, you’ll see that the board gives you a nice little palette of all your clips. This is the perfect productivity tool for storing bits of your digital life. Using your clips anywhere on your system is easy, just position your cursor where you want your clip, bring up the panel and then simply choose the clip by clicking on it.
Store your email signatures, text templates, or your stash of links to share in your Clips Panel and get the job done faster. I think this is useful for everyone.
Developers: store and recall snippets of code, insert color codes or graphics, and more
Designers: store template graphics or filler text, apply watermarks, insert overlays, the whole nine
Students: create templates for your course work to speed up assignments, save pieces of text during your research and recall it when writing
Abbreviations
Is the keyboard more of your thing? No problem, Clips includes a feature called Abbreviations; enabling you to do on-the-fly text expansion. Assign Abbreviations to your Clips and Clips will type/paste them automatically for you when you enter the abbreviation anywhere on your Mac.
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35 comments to “Welcome New Clips/MacHeist Users!”
Barry
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:05 pmI bought and installed Clips but every time I try to run the app it crashes.I’ve not been able to find any documentation as to whether this runs on 10.6.2, which is what I”m using. This looks like a great app and I can’t wait to give it a try!
Colin
March 5th, 2010 at 12:00 amAny chance some of the issues raised over at MacHeist (like excessive memory usage) will be addressed soon? The fact Clips can use as much as 1GB of real memory is ridiculous.
Frank
March 5th, 2010 at 6:26 pmI think it would be nice if Tracks had the ability to control iTunes via the menu bar ala Synergy. Also if could add pops up like Synergy too that would be awesome (ones that don’t use growl.) Great app thanks a lot!
Rick
March 6th, 2010 at 10:31 amI just installed this and I like the functionality, but it IS using a lot of memory. Activity Monitor shows Clips is using 346 MB of real memory. That’s a lot. Not sure I can live with that, frankly. We’ll try for a week or two and see what happens, but this is a real issue.
Jack
March 6th, 2010 at 11:53 amI cannot figure out how to create an abbreviation. Pls. advise.
Rick
March 7th, 2010 at 11:34 amafter running Clips most of yesterday, I came to two conclusions:
1. I love the functionality, for the most part. There are a few things I’d like to see changed, most notably, how recent system clippings are handled, but it’s a very nicely done app.
2. After 2 hours it was consuming over 500 MB of real memory. That is ludicrous. If it was possible to turn off some of the functionality to get this down so it was consistently under 50 MB, then fine. But at this memory cost, there’s no way I can use it. Honestly, I don’t see how anyone can. You can only put so much RAM into your system and this is a HUGE consumption for a utility that is constantly running.
Val
March 7th, 2010 at 1:21 pmI bought this as part of the Macheist bundle but cannot get it to work. I simply don’t know what to do. it doesn’t seem at all intuitive – or it has a fault. No idea it took this amount of memory. how do I find and monitor what it is using?
Doug
March 9th, 2010 at 1:36 pmI already have a love/hate relationship with this app.
Love:
The UI
The way it handles app specific clips
ability to create abbrevations
Hate:
it uses 500mb of RAM (over 1GB virtual)
i can’t use the abreviations it creates
The concept is super, the actual reality is lacking.
What concerns me most is that it has been over a year since the issues were found, and yet it has not been fixed? Please make the app work properly asap and not just hype it up.
Mark
March 9th, 2010 at 4:33 pmI got Clips in one of the early MacHeists (I think). I haven’t been using it because of the hogging of memory and because I’ve been waiting for you to discuss v2.0.
How about some details about what we can expect to see and when it will be available?
renhack
March 10th, 2010 at 9:13 amThanks clips!!! I always wondered why I had so much extra memory. Thanks to you my worries are gone. Clips has made my mac so efficient that I am now using ALL of my available resources. I used to have to launch several apps to make sure my machine was running to its full potential. Now i just run clips! bravo!
drudge
March 10th, 2010 at 10:23 amHey guys,
I just wanted to shoot you all a quick note and let you know that we are working on a build with performance improvements. Stay tuned for a build with less RAM and CPU usage, as well as improved abbreviation stability.
Nixta
March 10th, 2010 at 11:29 amHey there,
Love the app, and thanks for the update, but can you confirm that you’re trying to address the hanging/crashing issue that seems to be hitting a few people (myself included)? Not sure if the update you posted includes that in “performance improvements”?
Cheers,
Nick
Dave Lo
March 10th, 2010 at 2:45 pmAbbreviations don’t even work at all for me. Some people have had them work for a short period before it stops responding however they don’t work at ALL for me.
Luca
March 10th, 2010 at 3:25 pmI bought and installed Clips, but I can see only the board and there is’nt the menulet, so I can’t manage the preferences. I tried to reinstall twice but it’s the same.
Doug
March 10th, 2010 at 6:06 pmwhen can we expect this update? Days? Weeks? Months?
any why are you not publishing new comments? That looks worse than negative comments.
Rick
March 10th, 2010 at 10:52 pmDrudge…..thanks for the update. Do you have any rough ETA on when this will be available for test, and any estimate on how low you can get the RAM and CPU usage?
I’ve been searching for something else I and while can use I’ve found another app, I like yours a LOT better. But the resource usage is something I can’t accept. If you can get RAM usage down consistently under 100 meg and ideally around 50 MB, and CPU usage is reasonable, I’m in.
One idea, can you ‘modularize’ your functionality? For example, if I could turn off some of the eye candy I don’t need, maybe that would help.
David L.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:30 amRunning on Mac OS X 10.6.2, this application does not appear to work _at all_, I ponder as to how in the world the application made it past testing… or maybe it was never tested?
It consumed vast amounts of memory very fast, regardless of what is being copied.
It won’t properly copy contents from the system and store them.
Abbreviations don’t work at all.
Hot keys are delayed a long time after Clips launches.
The Clips icon will not display in the menu bar.
And many other issues as well. Please let us know if you guys plan on doing more than “improve performance” and “abbreviation stability” with the next release. It would be great if the application actually worked as advertised. Really looking forward to using it as described, sounds awesome! If it worked…
Ryan
March 11th, 2010 at 12:52 pmAnother who had abbreviations work (once) and then stopped working. RAM is leveled out at 400MB (1.4 BG virtual).
Bob C
March 12th, 2010 at 3:33 amThanks for a great clipboard manager. This is the best I’ve used so far. One thing I would like is the ability to change the level of translucence.
David
March 13th, 2010 at 12:58 amLike many, I’m new via Macheist. This looks promising but I am extremely concerned about memory use. I think that 50MB real is the maximum acceptable and right now it is showing 65 with only 4 copies of the registration text string. Unreal. Also, how do you manually delete something? This should be straightforward.
Jules
March 13th, 2010 at 1:21 amI imagine some of us out here are former iClip users that would like to find a suitable replacement for it. Clips has many things going for it with its versatility, but the memory usage is indeed a serious problem.
It’d be nice to scroll up and down the panel to access older clips; and if the custom clips could be separated from the main library. I found that if you have a large number of custom clips, you have barely enough room for new clips, even if the total number of imported clips is set to 50. Also, I’d like to see the labels that we give clips appear on the board. The label is not useful if we can’t see it.
Judd Muir
March 13th, 2010 at 11:26 amAnother disappointed Clips user – a great concept, but buggered if I can get it to work and way too much of a resource hog. Here’s hoping it evolves into something useful.
Cariad
March 15th, 2010 at 4:25 pmI submitted two support tickets and e-mailed you a couple of weeks ago, but I haven’t heard anything back. You said yourself, “drop us a line and we’ll get back to you ASAP” — two weeks is kinda a long time.
Rick
March 15th, 2010 at 11:42 pmstill no rough timeline?
Man, I just don’t understand why developers can’t be more forthcoming with their customers. I used to work in software development. I understand not wanting to commit to a date, but it’s reasonable to say something like “we understand the problem, we’re working it, our ideal would be to have an alpha version to test in roughly a month, could be less, could be much more, but right now that’s the goal, we’ll give you updates as we get them.”
Steve
March 17th, 2010 at 2:30 amlooks like this is the lemon of MacHeist NanoBundle 2. Unless the devs release that fix I don’t see this one getting much use (and the Dev’s reputation meaning much to the thousands of buyers).
Alistair
March 17th, 2010 at 7:38 pmHey there, trying to get support for Clips. I know this is not the place to do it, but here are my problems:
1. I have tried signing up to the forums, but registration does not work. I have tried on two different email addresses and I get no registration email at all. Checked spam filters, etc. Seems like something/someone on your side is broken.
2. I entered a ticket on your system a while ago with zero response.
Seems like a typical small company: great ideas and awesome software with real potential, but lacking even the most basic support infrastructure.
Eric
March 19th, 2010 at 10:59 amRunning MacOSX 10.6.2. The menulet and dock icon will *not* show up, no matter what my preference setting is. I have tried killing the process, trashing the preferences and restarting several times, but still no menulet or dock icon.
The hot corner doesn’t work either, so the only way I can bring back the Clips UI is to relaunch it from the app icon.
I like the idea, and will look forward to hearing about bug fixes.
Rick
March 21st, 2010 at 3:08 pmanother week gone by and STILL no feedback or communication from the development team.
Guess I’ll go buy a license for a competitive product. A usable version of Clips appears to be vaporware at this point.
Pity.
Alistair
March 22nd, 2010 at 6:20 pmSo, clearly you guys are checking this blog and updating it. I know this because you deleted my comment here that mentioned your utter lack of support for your product and the fact that your forum registration system failed me on both of my email addresses.
So after you delete this comment too (how many others have you deleted?) can you at least take a look at 1) why your registration system doesn’t work and 2) my support request (abbreviations not showing up)?
Try working on your software and answering support requests and you won’t have to spend so much time deleting comments.
Keith
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:10 pmI got Clips as part of the recent MacHeist bundle and I had high hopes for it, but it has fallen short. I’m very unimpressed with the memory hog issue. No clipboard manager should ever take up that much memory. I think they’ve spent to much time on bells and whistles than on delivering a solid product. I don’t really care is every app and space has it’s clips sorted, I’ll sort them myself. And different ways to view your clips, with the spinning wheel thing or loosely laying around the desktop when you invoke the Board are all unnecessary! And when I use the menu bar icon to look at my clips, the clips aren’t labeled what I actually copied, they are labeled like “Conceited Blog>Blog Archive>Welcome New Clips/MacHeist”, I can’t make sense of that, how about labeling it as just what I copied. And why do we need a Panel, a Board and a Organizer? How about one solid way to view our clips! Sorry, Like I said, I had high hopes!
Paul
March 26th, 2010 at 1:00 amI submitted a support request a week ago. No response. Is anyone there? Has anyone gotten the icon to appear in 10.6.2?
Henrik
March 29th, 2010 at 10:43 amI’ve got big troubles with Clips. Nothing seems to happen so I guess I’ll look at it this way:
Conceited Software, for some reason, wanted some cash and decided that a bundle would be a good idea, quickly boosting their pockets. Then, just as swift, disappear from the face of the planet.
I wish MacHeist would hold back whatever money Conceited would get from the bundle and perhaps throw that to the different charities instead.
Crap-crap-crappeli-crap-crap!
There, got it out of my system, so back to work!
Nixta
March 30th, 2010 at 10:08 amHey, Conceited is an understatement. Come on. At least let us know you’re not just punching the clown in the corner and are making some progress on fixing these issues?
David
March 30th, 2010 at 2:52 pmHi,
I received the app with the macheist bundle but just tried it now, I tought it could replace the quicksilver triggers I had, but I just noticed that it consumes a lot of RAM. Actually really too much for a daily basis. Just copied 5 links, and I’m already at 700M memory usage. I saw here that I’m not the only one. I will test it later after an update becomes available …
Sanook
March 31st, 2010 at 3:40 amRam sticks at 250MB, but that is because I reduced the number of clips down to 20. There is probably a memory problem here, but maybe not – it just keeps the clips in RAM, so the more you have (and the bigger the clip), the more RAM is used. Good for speed of use, not so good otherwise. Abbreviations worked the very first launch, never after that…sigh. A bit rough around the edges for a 1.5 product. Hope for a 1.6 release that fixes the bugs.