| TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images. Type a few letters and — pop — your text appears!
Use different email signatures?
— Easily insert a customized signature with a few keystrokes. You can even include a photo or logo!
Need easy access to boilerplate paragraphs?
— Add them to your snippet library and insert them into your emails and contracts by typing a short abbreviation!
Filling out forms?
— Make it easy on yourself by adding your address, email, phone and fax numbers to your snippet library!
Keep making the same typos?
— Add common typos as triggers — TextExpander automatically replaces them with the correct spelling!
Need to insert the current date or time?
— TextExpander comes with date and time snippets that you can format the way you want!
Try it! You’ll be amazed how easy it is to save hours of typing!
“TextExpander is a wonderful product! It’s a must-have for anyone wanting to automate keystroke tasks in any Apple application, but I am particularly fond of the ability to have AppleMail documents look like i want them to look – quickly & easily!”
— Duane Conder, CondorMedia, Dallas, Texas
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July 10th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Yeah it used to be free software, called Textpander, but then I guess they got bought by “Smile on my Mac”…
Decent software, but the big problems (at least the ones that used to exist) were that (1) you get very used to the automatic correction, so you wind up growing dependent on it (provided you use it for automatic spelling correction) (2) you couldn’t set your delimiters (if you want it to correct “lnog” to “long”, for example, but you typed “lnog,” it would not fix it…) and (3) if other things are going on with your computer, it can get somewhat choppy, only realising that it has to insert the new word when you’re halfway into the next word, deleting the wrong characters and inserting the correction in the wrong place. Hopefully the latter two issues have been worked on, while the first issue is more of a personal matter
It is a great piece of software, though… It is quite simple to use, and is extremely handy, especially for the typo-prone.
July 11th, 2006 at 4:09 am
This is the single most useful software I have ever bought. If you work a lot with text or need to reply to a lot of email, you should get this.
July 11th, 2006 at 6:24 am
Wow!! TextExpander for only a dollar??…hey.. wait.. that’s not a dollar. Hey macZOT I thought we had a deal.
July 11th, 2006 at 6:58 am
This software is awesome, but what’s the deal? This used to always be FREE! I’m still using the free version and it works just fine, I don’t know what more could be added to make me want to pay for it other than offering up donations for such great work.
July 11th, 2006 at 7:40 am
Jefe,
What do you mean?
July 11th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Yesterday he posted: “…for $1 it’s a no-brainer. If nothing else, just to support small mac developers and the macZot model. I figure I’ll just maybe not buy a soda or something today and instead have that money go to macZot. Hear that macZOT? Price an app at $1 and I don’t even think about it.”
I think his post today was snarky. ;)
July 11th, 2006 at 9:10 am
At even $10 I’d go for this, but $20 for just text completion seems high.
July 11th, 2006 at 9:41 am
I’m torn. This title is worth it’s weight in gold… well i guess it probably doesn’t weigh a lot, but maybe if you turned the letters into their corresponding numbers (1-26) and added them up, it would be worth that number in dollars. BUT- it’s been free so long and I have the free version, so it’s really a hard sell.
On the other hand, the software can only get better do you think they’ll be offering free updates? if so that would be worth it, because soon enough they’re gonna give in and make it do context-based expansion for sure, and that would be money.
July 11th, 2006 at 10:58 am
I too think this is priced too high, but alas I still went for the deal. It does work well and this is probably as good a deal as we’ll see on this.
July 11th, 2006 at 11:02 am
20 bucks is way too much for this software. I’ll skip this one.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
The program was never free. It was donationware, and customers who originally made a donation received a free upgrade when it moved to Smile on my Mac. You May view Peter Maurer’s view on this at http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php
Having said that, this is a wonderful program, and I’d highly recommend it to everyone.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Had you donated back when the app was free, you would have recieved a free registration like I did. $29.95 is really a bit steep but $19.95 like here is alright since it’s only $5 away from what I consider the right price for this tool.
However, if you work a lot with text, it’s worth the $29.95. If you don’t work a lot with text you probably don’t need TextExpander or and similar application in the first place.
July 11th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
I downloaded the shareware version of this as a part of the CollaboZot! I don’t use it all that much myself, but what it can do seems damn cool should I ever get back into boilerplate typing or .
However, I was sorta expecting this and the other software featured in the CollaboZot to be offered as prizes in the CollaboZot.
How long ago was that?
ahem, MacZOT!!?????
What happened to CollaboZot?
July 11th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
TextExpander seems like a great product. I don’t personally have a need for this, so I’m not in on this.
I do have the shareware version (downloaded to participate in CollaboZot), and I must say, memorizing a few letters or pointing and clicking on a snippet is much easier than remembering, typo-free, complex font / image combos and long passages.
That said, I was thinking (hoping) that some of the software utilized in the CollaboZot but not included inthe Mega MyzteryZot might be used as “prizes” in the CollaboZot contest.
Which reminds me, what happened to the CollaboZot!?????
MacZot, please say something! Even if it’s “scusi,” something!
July 11th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
I truly wish to jump off the fence on this one, but I am running OSX 10.4.7 PPC and the Apple MenuBar drop-down menu has a repeated hesitation to it that drives me bloody well mad.
July 11th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
TextExpander is good software and as far as keyshort cuts are concerned, is better then TypeIt4Me. However, for a few dollars more I can get a spell check engine attached that automatically corrects spelling through in either Linguasoft’s grammarian (my favorite) or spell catcher. That being said, if I was not already a grammarian user the $19.95 price would be well worth it.
July 11th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
WOW! Censorship on a legitimate post? As RuMac has reminded me, I already have this feature in Grammarian. Thanks for reminding me!
July 11th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Let me get this straight…maczot is offering the same deal that anybody that joins the textexpander mailing list gets on a piece of software that is painfully overpriced and used to be free.
Umm…ok. Let’s just say I am waiting to see what is next.
July 11th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Sadly, this app did not get this much propaganda before it was put on the market for 30 dollars, and sadly i had never heard of it before (I’m new to the Mac and MacZot). So for me, donationware would have been great, but $30 or even $20 is a little too much/ ridiculous.
July 11th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Yeah, what DID happen with CollaboZot? I guess you’re counting on it being forgotten… ?
July 12th, 2006 at 12:09 am
I really enjoy this program. I got it for free a while ago. I would never pay $30 bucks for this. I would write it myself and hand it out for free… wait… maybe I should do that :)
CollaboZot: as far as this game goes, I would like to know who won or what?? many of the members on my forum that played the game want to know what happened.
July 12th, 2006 at 1:20 am
i seem to be the only one who bought it. I like the app and while i think the price is a bit high i like to support shareware developer.
i have yet to receive my license key
July 12th, 2006 at 3:31 am
Sheesh. Here we go again. This software was never free. What it boiled down to was that not enough of you donated or showed interest in it when it was Donationware and so Peter sold it to SmileOnMyMac.
Read:
http://expat-leo.blogspot.com/2006/05/geek-textpander-goes-shareware-and.html
If you won’t pay for this software, then naturally you are not the market for this app. I paid for it. You should too if you intend to use it.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:20 am
There are already many free alternatives out there. Out of respect for Maczot I won’t list them, but they are present. To be fair, TextExpander is by far the best, but $30 better? That is for you to decide.
July 15th, 2006 at 1:04 am
jeff could you tell us what ‘context-based expansion’ is?
eugene, could you list just 2 of the ‘many free alternatives out there’?
cheers,
Riccardo
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