Jumpcut.com – Web-based software

One of the utilities that I wonder how I ever got along without is called Jumpcut by Steve Cook.

You can find a free software for almost any task you desire to do online. Anything from music making to spreadsheets and now even video editing. With www.jumpcut.com you can edit, splice and add cool effects to your favourite video all in real time, without actually downloading any software.

My day job is working for an internet company so I live in my browser for hours and hours everyday. I am constantly copying or cutting and then pasting a piece of information from one place to another or more likely more than one piece of information.

For example, before Jumpcut if I had 3 pieces of information to copy from someplace into a form I would have to do this one piece of information at a time, often switching windows or applications in between.

Jumpcut lets me paste in any of the last 25 things that I cut or copied into the clipboard. Instead of doing a paste with command-V, I use control-option-V to pop up a transparent overlay that shows the current clipboard.

If I hit the arrow keys while continuing to hold down the control and option keys then I can scroll through any of the last 25 clipboards. When I am done, I have pasted the information and also changed the current contents of the clipboard.

Some facts:
Yahoo acquired the web-based video editing site in order to strengthen its Yahoo! Video offering.

Jumpcut, which was launched just 6 months ago, gives web users the ability to edit their own content and other videos without downloading or installing software.