Clipix is a
privately funded company offering an online
bookmarking
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During mitosis, gene transcription is silenced and most transcription factors are re ...
,
file sharing
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, and organizational tool. The utility is available in 13 languages, and as of 2014 had users in 154 countries. Clipix allows users to save
online content
Web content is the text, visual or audio content that is made available online and user encountered as part of the online usage and experience on websites. It may include text, images, sounds and audio, online videos, among other items placed wit ...
and other documents to private or public "clipboards." By dragging a “clip” button onto the browser bar, users click and clip online items for later reference. Clipix users can also add
digital files they want to access, including
Excel
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spreadsheets,
Microsoft Word
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documents,
PDF
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files, and email messages. To organize content further, Clipix also offers "multiboards", which are created by dragging several clipboards into one "Main Category" clipboard.
Syncboards are synchronized clipboards that multiple users can access and add to, in order to work collaboratively. The company’s "Price Drop Alert" allows users to name the price they’d like to pay for any item that is sold online. Once a "Price Drop Alert" is set, Clipix notifies the user when an item has been discounted to his or her preferred price. The Clipix
app for
iPad
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,
iPhone, and
Android
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Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
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synchronizes with the Clipix
web interface
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.
Clipix is often compared to
Pinterest
Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas") on the internet using images, and on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboard ...
, a similar tool.
[timesunion.com, March 29, 2012, "A Pinterest Alternative" http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/A-Pinterest-alternative-3444965.php]
References
External links
Official websiteGoogle Play link
Online companies of the United States
File sharing
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
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