Copydog

Writing an email, typing a document or handling any other text-related applications usually implies having to copy and paste particular pieces of information to things done as quickly as you can, especially if you're working in a fast-paced environment.

To ease this job, Copydog keeps track of clipboard history, shows different colored balloons for each bit of copied data, and lets you easily reuse text on mouse click. It displays all important information on a small part of the screen and gives you an overview of everything, helping you make simple and swift choices when it comes to reusing copied text.

The software program is not flashy in any way. In fact, the current version is rudimentary when taking into account the interface, particularly the jagged, unsmooth shape of the balloons. Fortunately, this doesn't negatively affect Copydog's functionality.

It gets integrated into the systray at startup and reacts every time you copy text, displaying contents in a colorful balloon on the right side of the screen. New balloons are created and shown beneath the previous ones as soon as you copy new text.

Worth mentioning is that the same text will not be displayed a second time since its original balloon and position is retained (unless you hide the balloon on right mouse click). To reuse text, you just have to left-click it.

Unfortunately, Copydog encounters errors when attempting to create too many balloons. Their number is actually limited by the size of the screen, and the old clips do not get deleted automatically. Instead of exiting to resolve the error, you have to manually close some of the balloons.

A couple of settings can be configured from the right-click menu of the systray icon: for decreasing the balloon size, toggling the display of all balloons, and for removing text formatting attributes. Clipboard history is not remembered on program exit.

Copydog still need a lot of works if it plans to become a serious clipboard manager. However, it takes a clean and practical approach with balloon text clips. We're looking forward to new features.