August 5, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Text expansion apps are a great way to save time when you find yourself typing the same information repeatedly, ...

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OS X: TextExpander, one of our favorite text expansion apps, has added a couple of new features to save you from even more time-wasting typing. Version 4 includes fill-in snippets for personalizing ...

The TextExpander utility saves keystrokes by letting you type a short sequence that’s replaced by a longer one. That’s the heart of the app, which has expanded (sorry) its repertoire of replacement ...

TextExpander turns short text snippets into longer ones, saving you a great deal of time if you spend a lot of time in front of a keyboard. You define your own snippets, and the shortcuts you’ll use ...

A few weeks ago, while I was preparing my coverage of Apple’s Q2 2013 earnings call, I grew tired of my system to resize and rename images on OS X, so I rebuilt it from scratch using Automator, Name ...

At our regular TidBITS staff meeting a week before Apple announced its third quarter financial results (see “iPads, iPhones Propel Apple’s $8.8 billion Q3 2012 Profit,” 24 July 2012), we discussed how ...

Today Smile Software released TextExpander 4, the latest version of its typing shortcut app for OS X. The new version contains several new types of fill-in snippets, including support for multi-line ...

Smile on Thursday released TextExpander 4, the latest incarnation of its typing shortcut utility. Among the new features are additional options for “fill-in-the-blank” snippets, fill-ins for ...