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Text Expander Releases Version 2.1

Published at April 22, 2008 in textexpander. 1 Comment
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Text Expander is one of my favorite applications. I use text snippets for everything from email to legal briefs to applescript code. If you do any sort of repetitive text entry, you owe it to yourself to give Text Expander a try.

The new version 2.1 includes several improvements. According to the developer version 2.1 adds the following:

- Allows single character abbreviations
- Improves performance and reliability for fast typists
- Remembers open groups in Preference pane
- Preserves format when creating snippets from selection or Clipboard
- Fixes problem expanding when there are multiple nested snippets
- Minor fixes and improvements

I’m most interested in increased reliability for fast typists. Occasionally, Text Expander stumbles when I type too fast which can be frustrating. I’m interested in what the users are using Text Expander or any of the other text snippet applications for. Sound off in the comments.

20 Great Mac Applications

Published at October 29, 2007 in OS X, disk inventory x, growl and textexpander. 0 Comments
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Lifehacker did a great little write up of 20 essential applications on your Mac. I generally agreed with their opinions. A few in particular that I find very helpful are …

Disk Inventory X - This application is great for sniffing out large files on your hard drive you didn’t realize are there. Before installing Leopard, I found 8 gigs of sample garageband song files that were easily moved onto an external drive.

Growl - Don’t question it. Just install it.

TextExpander - This application is a huge timesaver. The trick is to remember it is there and to keep updating it with new snippets. I’ve been using the new version that came out a few weeks ago and had ho problems with it in Tiger or Leopard.

A few of the applications Lifehacker recommends don’t really impress me so much. I prefer mail.app over Thunderbird and Safari over Firefox. Anyway, you can read the full article right here.