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Shapeshifter allows you to manage your clipboard in a way you?ve never tried before. With Shapeshifter, you can copy several things and have multiple items in your clipboard at any time, no matter the format. The program is updated daily for improvements in both visual design, stability, performance and features.

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In the above screenshot, the user has copied a layer from Photoshop, a text-message from Skype, a file from a folder, an image from Chrome and a collection of files from a folder. The user is then holding down CTRL + V to see an intuitive interface from where he/she can browse through the clipboard history, and select which clipboard item to paste with the arrow keys (all still while holding down CTRL + V).

The interface itself adapts to your design choices in Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8. The glow around the border and the active selection color is chosen directly from your personalized Aero color in Windows.

The good thing about this type of software is that it doesn?t change your current habbits. The idea of a clipboard manager isn?t new, but it often involves something tedious such as selecting the item to paste from a context menu.

With Shapeshifter, you don?t have to get used to anything. It just works.

What?s new in this version:

  • Copy any kind of format to your clipboard
  • Have several items in your clipboard
  • Stability improvements when copying from Chrome to Firefox
  • Performance improvements

Download: Shapeshifter 4.0.15 beta | 0.5 MB (Freeware)

View: Screenshot | Shapeshifter website

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Good grief, how many people are going to use the "shapeshifter" name for a piece of software? This is at least the third one that I know of, and there are probably more.

http://shapeshifter.cebix.net/ (Mac II emulation software for the Amiga)

http://en.wikipedia....ter_(animation) (animation software)

http://en.wikipedia....fter_(software) (the one talked about in this post)

Anyone else have any to add to the list?

edit: already found #4 : http://www.shapeshif...et.nz/#products (CAD suite)

edit 2: and #5: http://www.unsanity....s/shapeshifter/ (customization software for OS X)

edit 3: #6: http://shape-shifter.software.informer.com/ (a game)

Damn, is this some record for the most different pieces of software with the same name???

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Good grief, how many people are going to use the "shapeshifter" name for a piece of software? This is at least the third one that I know of, and there are probably more.

http://shapeshifter.cebix.net/ (Mac II emulation software for the Amiga)

http://en.wikipedia....ter_(animation) (animation software)

http://en.wikipedia....fter_(software) (the one talked about in this post)

Anyone else have any to add to the list?

edit: already found #4 : http://www.shapeshif...et.nz/#products (CAD suite)

edit 2: and #5: http://www.unsanity....s/shapeshifter/ (customization software for OS X)

edit 3: #6: http://shape-shifter...e.informer.com/ (a game)

Damn, is this some record for the most different pieces of software with the same name???

Take a chill pill and add a 7th "Shapeshifter" to that list! :D

I don't see the issue in any way, and yes - I am well-informed that there are many applications with the name "Shapeshifter", just like there is a lot of applications with other generic terms or generic words as names. Shapeshifting is a generic term and hence can't be trademarked. In my head Shapeshifting when switching between clipboard items made sense. If it didn't to you, let me know. Perhaps you're not the only one thinking that - and if that's the case, I'd better get back to the drawing board and make up something more "original".

Would be awesome if you could come up with some ideas for improvement in terms of naming.

Very interesting. I've been looking for a clipboard manager and this one has style as well.

Thanks a lot - let me know what you think of it.

Shapeshifting to me would not lead me to think about a clipboard program.

Clippy

Clip buddy

something along those lines would makemore sense for a clipboard program

It's just not very symbolic, and lacks creativity if you ask me. Thanks for making up those suggestions though. I'll talk to the others to hear their opinions.

Good grief, how many people are going to use the "shapeshifter" name for a piece of software? This is at least the third one that I know of, and there are probably more.

http://shapeshifter.cebix.net/ (Mac II emulation software for the Amiga)

http://en.wikipedia....ter_(animation) (animation software)

http://en.wikipedia....fter_(software) (the one talked about in this post)

Anyone else have any to add to the list?

edit: already found #4 : http://www.shapeshif...et.nz/#products (CAD suite)

edit 2: and #5: http://www.unsanity....s/shapeshifter/ (customization software for OS X)

edit 3: #6: http://shape-shifter...e.informer.com/ (a game)

Damn, is this some record for the most different pieces of software with the same name???

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I thought it was Unsanitys Shapshifter for the OSX , I got exited until i read the description :glare:

I thought it was Unsanitys Shapshifter for the OSX , I got exited until i read the description :glare:

Exactly my point. People need to start checking if a name is already in use before releasing a piece of software. Wouldn't be nice to get sued by someone for violating a trademark. Seriously, it took me just a couple of minutes on Google to find all of those. Why can't software authors do the same when deciding on a name for their programs?

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Good grief, how many people are going to use the "shapeshifter" name for a piece of software? This is at least the third one that I know of, and there are probably more.

Just let Apple make something called Shapeshifter. Then they can sue everyone else who uses the name from that point forward.

Shapeshifter allows you to manage your clipboard in a way you?ve never tried before.

Im sorry but that statement is only true if the first time you tried using a computer was last week.

Im all for finding a replacement to ClipX because its no longer updated however I have yet to find something that comes close to the simplicity. Happy to give this a go.

Edit:

Just tried using it on an XP laptop and its telling me setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application

Im sorry but that statement is only true if the first time you tried using a computer was last week.

Im all for finding a replacement to ClipX because its no longer updated however I have yet to find something that comes close to the simplicity. Happy to give this a go.

Edit:

Just tried using it on an XP laptop and its telling me setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application

We don't support ancient Operating Systems.

Of course I read the instructions. It just didn't work.

Interesting. Would be great to be able to reproduce this so that I can get it fixed.

Can you record a quick http://screenr.com session of it? Won't take long, and it would help me a lot.

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