One thing that I cant live without on every mac that I work on is a real clipboard. I copy and paste so much , it’s nice to be able to go back and find things that need to be inserted in multiple locations. I don’t want to leave out my windows compatriots so here is a list of apps that perform these functions.

OSX – PthPasteboard

quite honestly, its the best i’ve used in OSX, there are others, but this one takes the cake, oh and it’s free. If you pay for it, you can then share whatever you have in it’s memory with other machines running it. So yes, you can copy and paste from machine to machine, awesome! Add to the fact you can search for things and you get a thumbnail view of what is has saved.

Windows -

Ditto – Ditto

Ditto is really nice, you can search  , works with any windows that can accept copy/paste commands, Full unicode support, You can share information between computer ( encrypted too!)

ClipX – ClipX

Clipx is great because it has plugins and it is free, it also displays thumbnails of what you copied.