If you go into any document, and you highlight a piece of text, when you highlight the text, PopClip opens up a little menu bar that gives you quick access to a few different functions. And you can see the different actions that it comes kind of stock with. PopClip installs as a utility in your computer. And it really is a tool that's kind of designed to replace keyboard shortcuts to a certain extent with a visual reference. PopClip solves that, and it's a fairly ingenious tool. Half the time, I gotta tell you the truth, half the time when I go to retype it, I hit the caps lock key again 'cause I just seem to have a gift for that. If you send it as a social post, you're shouting at everybody. So you end up in all uppercase, of course. You're typing away, and the accidental implementation of the caps lock key. But I can tell you, PopClip is one of the tools that whenever I get a new computer, I install right away, just for one thing, for one thing only, and that is what I talked about at the very top. Now I haven't tested out Pantherbar, but any Windows users who have used Pantherbar, please tell us in comments below if it works as well as PopClip does for the Mac. There is a tool I've found in Windows which looks to me to be identical to PopClip, and it's called Pantherbar. Now it's called PopClip, and it's only available for the Mac, but worry not Windows users. How many times have you sat down and been typing away, especially if you're like me and you look at your fingers when you type, and you have accidentally hit the caps lock key on the damn keyboard, and when you go to look at the document you're about to send or the email you're about to send, half of it's in uppercase and half it's properly cased? Ugh, I have a solution, today, on "Dotto Tech." Steve Dotto here, how the heck ya doin' this fine day? Today we're gonna take a look at a simple little utility that I've found that does, as do so many great utilities, does one thing for me that makes it essential in my tool kit, and then I've found some other things that it does for me as well. Now that you have mastered the basics, see the Advanced Topics section to get more out of PopClip.- Ahh, I just did it again. Tip: Right-clicking the PopClip menu bar icon is a shortcut to toggle PopClip on/off.Īdvanced tip: You can also toggle PopClip on/off using AppleScript.
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