21
2006
Two Very Cool Developer Utils for Windows
An article by Glen
While some of my development is done on Mac, and some on Linux, most of my time is spent on Windows. Not really fussed about operating systems these days, so happy to work on whatever. Anyways, I work with this guy Shayne who knows more about Windows utilities than anyone, and he keeps showing me cool stuff.
The first one is a clipboard extender called Yankee Clipper. This beast keeps a running history of your clipboard over time, and gives you a cute dropdown menu to pick from when you use Ctrl-Alt-V. Shayne has a more complete review.
The second cool utility that I just can’t live without any more is Dirkey. This guy allows you to bring up a picklist of Windows Explorer shortcuts when you are in File Dialogs (or Explorer itself) simply by right clicking on the Close Window button. This turns out to be phenominally useful when navigating the filesystem.
Both utilities are freeware…. And too cool for school.
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Clipper is nice indeed, thank you for the tip, but have a look to Total commander (ghisler.com), if you want to take control over your file system. I never used the Windows Explorer. One of the million features I use very often is the ability to use archives as virtual folders and do R/W *while* inside the archive. For me, as a Java developer, this is a perfect feature while checking the generated jars, or simply hacking post deployment application in case that some files are not there; especially useful while designing ANT scripts to generate jars … and so on. Cheers,
I haven’t used Clipper, but I do use Ditto http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/. It sounds like the same sort of thing. Ditto also supports sharing a clipboard across a network with friends and a host of other cool little features.
As far as navigating the windows file system, CygWin is by far the best tool I’ve ever used. http://www.cygwin.com/