With OS X and iOS growing more and more alike with each passing year, its a wonder that such functionality has yet to show up on OS X.

PopClip is available in the Mac App Store for 4.99 but is currently discounted at 1.99, 1.49 or AU2.49 as part of 2 Tuesday.

After installing the app, youll need to allow the app to control your Mac via the Accessibility panel in System Preferences before you get started.

PopClip installs as an icon in the menu bar and offers to take you to the Accessibility panel in the Security Privacy area of System Preferences.

In addition to the basic cut, copy and paste options, it offers to define a word, correct a misspelled word, open a link or search for the word using Google.

There are extensions to format text, translate text, count characters or words, send text to Evernote or another note app or a to-do app, and many others.

From PopClips menu bar icon, you can uncheck the items you decide that you dont want to use.

Also from the menu bar, you can also exclude apps from using PopClip, should you find it interferes with the operation of a particular app.

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We wont be changing any keys, but instead well be modifying the information within.

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You can perform actions on selected text using PopClip that makes it extremely versatile, whether you want to open a link in another browser, search for the selected text in Google or add it as a to-do to Things, PopClip provides an iOS-style pop-up menu that makes doing these tasks easy.

Its main use is for cut, copy and paste - again, very similar to iOS.

Where it really gets interesting is the ability to install extensions to do more than just add to the clipboard.

These extensions range from opening a link in a Google Chrome, post selected text to Facebook, add quotation marks around selected text and more.

As long as you know a sites URL that can include some text or to press a certain combination of keys, then you can create your own extension.

For the purposes of this tutorial, Ill be creating an extension using the URL method.

Popclip App How To Build A

As an example, Im going to show you how to build a PopClip extension that can search Mactuts for the selected text.

This will give you a good idea of how the extension works and what changes wed need to make to start creating our own extensions.

TextEdit isnt ideal for editing code so Id recommend something like TextWrangler which is not only a great app but its free, too.

This is where we will store our extension files before we turn it into a proper PopClip extension.

Under the heading General Overview, youll see the types of actions that PopClip supports.

Popclip App Download The Example

We want to download the example code for the URL action, which is the source code for the Google Translate extension.

You may have heard of them before as its the same file type that OS X uses to store preferences for applications.

These tell PopClip that the extension is able to provide certain information.

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