My latest on the Computerworld Tool Talk Blog:
TextExpander is one of the most useful tools available for the Mac. It allows you to generate a list of text abbreviations which, when typed, automatically expand into words, phrases, paragraphs or whole pages of text. The upgrade released this week adds significant new capabilities, although some of the new features are still unreliable.
TextExpander runs in the background, and watches your keyboard. To use it, just type.
The best way to describe how TextExpander works is to describe how I use it. When I type the abbreviation "mmw," TextExpander types out my name. I use that as a short e-mail signature. "cwsig" is the signature I use for correspondence relating to this blog. I have a couple of other e-mail signatures I use for various other roles I play, all accessible by typing abbreviations I created and customized with TextExpander.
TextExpander isn't just for e-mail signatures. If I type "hhipaa" it spells out "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)." And "palblogtag" spells out the last paragraph I use on every single blog I post to a particular corporate Web site.
Read the rest: Updated TextExpander makes typing on the Mac even faster
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