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TextExpander: 20% Discount for Hawk Wings readers

Tim Gaden — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:37:15 +0000

The good people at Smile on my mac, who make TextExpander, have made a kind offer.

The company are providing a special discount of 20% for Hawk Wings readers, which brings the price of the app down from its usual price tag of USD 29.95 to USD 23.96.

Further, they are willing to extend the discount to the TextExpander Family Pack, for up to five users in one household, bringing the price of that bundle down to USD 35.96 (usually USD 44.95)

To get the special, just click on this link: http://www.smileonmymac.com/hawkwings/

The offer expires at the end of the month, 31 July 2008.

What do you get for your money?

Above all, you get your life back, as the snippet manager and typing expander saves me (and my fingers) ten or fifteen minutes a day. Getting that back for a one-off charge of USD 23.96 is a bargain indeed.

See these Hawk Wings posts for more TextExpander goodness:

1. How to boilerplate frequent email replies
2. HTML snippet file for TextExpander
3. Clever TextExpander clipboard snippet trick
4. TextExpander auto-corrections list
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TypeIt4Me 3.0: Loads of new features

Tim Gaden — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:40:28 +0000

TypeIt4Me is a snippet and text expansion utility like TextExpander (once Textpander).

These utilities speed up the typing in Mail.app and elsewhere to an unbelievable degree, and save me more time than anything else except, perhaps, Quicksilver.

Version 3.0 which was released yesterday is a major update. It is now a universal binary and its user interface has been completely rewritten in Cocoa.

Major new features include support for Rich Text Format in snippets and the clever ability to make individual snippets active only in particular apps.

The interface is clear and can be grasped as once by anyone who has used TextExpander. The preferences pane shows some of the app’s other features:

It can now import clippings files from TextExpander and Typinator and offers nested snippets, the ability to wrap the contents of the clipboard within a snippet improved support for images in snippets and more.

Devoted productivity nuts will be glad to know that they are no longer restricted to 2,700 abbreviations.

I noticed something else excellent straight away; TypeIt4Me does not suffer the occasional one or two second delay that afflicts TextExpander. Nice.

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Spell Catcher X 10.2.2b3

Tim Gaden — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:33:55 +0000

An new beta of Spell Catcher X — part spell-checker, part on-the-fly text-formatter, part text-snippet manager — has been released.

It is a terrific app, good enough to feature in the Hawk Wings’ Top Ten list of things every Mail.app user should have.

It has been recompiled as a universal binary, but also contains a number of bugfixes, improvements and new features.

A new option in the Interface preference pane offers the ability to turn off its autocomplete functions in particular apps. In Mail.app, for example, it can interfere with the typing of email addresses, seeking to change them to something else.

It also now quits in a more permanent way and the update procedure has been substantially streamlined so that it no longer requires a restart.

Improvements have been made to its launch speed and to its interactions with widgets. In addition, Keyboard shortcuts that clash with system-wide ones are detected.

Check ?¢‚Ç¨?ìword?¢‚Ç¨¬ù, Find ?¢‚Ç¨?ìword?¢‚Ç¨¬ù in References, and Look Up ?¢‚Ç¨?ìword?¢‚Ç¨¬ù now works more reliably in Carbon apps like Office 2004.

On the downside, the app no longer supports OS 10.2 (Jaguar) due to requirements for changed coding.

Many further improvements and bugfixes are listed in the “What’s New” document on the disk image.

The beta is available from the Rainmaker web site.

The developer Evan Gross recommends reading the “What’s New in 10.2.2″, “Read Me” and “Release Notes” documents that are on the disk image before installing.

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