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Textpander
Are you tired of typing out frequently used phrases over and over again? I know if I have to type, 'I promise not to contact you ever again,' one more time I will flip out.Enter Textpander. It is a simple preference pane and menu item which allows you to define abbreviations which you can type in most applications and will be magically replaced with a phrase that you have predefined. For example I have set it to recognize iss and replace it with 'I'm so sorry, I promise I'll pay for the damages.'
This app has saved me a lot of time.
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Thom Brooks said 2:48PM on 8-23-2005
inyim => It's not you, it's me.
tintwo => There's just some things I need to work out right now.
jwtbf => I've thought a lot about it, and I wouldn't want to jeopardize our friendship.
callu => I'll give you a call next week or so, okay?
grovel => I'm SOOO sorry I couldn't make it! Some stuff came up and it totally slipped my mind. Maybe next time?
datesis => By the way, and I hate to even bring this up, but... it's about your sister. I just felt like there was this amazing connection there between us and I wondered if it would bother you if she and I hung out?
etc.
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jackie said 3:02PM on 8-23-2005
MOMMH=mace only makes me hornier...
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jpf said 3:52PM on 8-23-2005
this is actually really cool. I just assigned "qwer" to a block of lipsum text. No more digging up placeholder text or pounding my keyboard for me...
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random said 4:09PM on 8-23-2005
Spell Catcher is my hero. Far more powerful and robust in my humble opinion (IMHO).
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Hugh said 5:20PM on 8-23-2005
I vote for typeit4me. Been using it since 1993 on an SE in ...must have been OS7.x.
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Andrew Kaufmann said 5:57PM on 8-23-2005
That's a great idea for a program. To add to Thom's post:
bro -- "You're like a brother to me."
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John said 9:21PM on 8-23-2005
I was using typeit4me, but it completely flaked out. This seems good, and the interface is much better.
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matonmacs said 9:35PM on 8-23-2005
I'm a registered user of Typeit4me, but it seems to have gone a bit wonky in Tiger, especially in Mail.app by adding extra line breaks where I don't want them. Textpander seems to work great; I think I'll run with it for a while instead.
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Poncho said 10:04AM on 8-24-2005
I've been using this for a while now, mainly for php + html snippets. I use roughly standardised code all the time and I'm constantly browsing to my snippets folder, but I'm finding that I rarely need to now with Textpander. Peter Maurer is my hero :-)
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Dan said 3:11PM on 8-25-2005
1st - I am so happy to have this program. I work with electronic medical records that have this functionality and always wished there was a way to do it on Mac. Now the hard part - I use windows machines at work - does anyone know of a similar program for Windows XP?
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