![]() You can try Typinator for free, but there will be some special behavior until you purchase a license I believe what happens is that Typinator will nag you as it performs an expansion, except when you are working in TextEdit. ![]() It’s a 2.4 MB download, and a universal binary it requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, but 10.4 is recommended. Typinator costs $20 for a two-year license, meaning that two years after you purchase your license, if you want to take advantage of any subsequent upgrades, you must pay an additional fee. This kind of intelligent, flexible clipping insertion is a feature of some applications, such as BBEdit now Typinator makes it universal. Thus, for example, you could copy the phrase “wow” and then type the abbreviation “em” to get “wow” surrounded by EM HTML tags and with the insertion point right after the “wow”. An expansion can include a specification of where the insertion point should be afterwards, and it can paste whatever is in the clipboard at the moment at a specified place within itself. That’s essentially all there is to it, but I’d be failing in my duty if I didn’t mention one more really cool additional new feature. By “responsive” I mean that, for example, “FYI” would yield “For Your Information,” but “Fyi” would yield “For your information.” It can be automatically expanded either at word-beginning or only when it is used as an entire word and expansion can be sensitive, insensitive, or responsive to the case in which you type an abbreviation’s letters. ![]() Thus, for example, an abbreviation set that should be operative only in BBEdit would be enabled for BBEdit and disabled for “All Other Applications.” Typinator 2.0 also comes with three sets of frequently mistyped words (one each for English, German, and French).Įach abbreviation can have several options too. In a secondary dialog, you set up a list of applications where you want special abbreviation set enablement each abbreviation set can then be enabled or disabled for each of those applications and for all other applications en masse. This window lists, at the top, your abbreviation sets (these sets are a major new feature of this version of Typinator), and below that, the abbreviations in the currently selected abbreviationĪbbreviation sets are useful because of their enablement behavior. Its only interface is its single preferences window. Typinator is an ordinary application (not a dreaded input manager) it watches your typing and controls the application where that typing takes place, by using the accessibility features of Mac OS X (see my articles “ Are Input Managers the Work of the Devil?,”, and “ Scripting the Unscriptable in Mac OS X,”, if you don’t understand the technical terms in that sentence). Reviewed Typinator in “ You Type, It Typinates,” the news this week is that Ergonis has released version 2.0. The interface is clear, and there are just enough options to make Typinator powerful and flexible without sacrificing clarity and ease of use. Of all the utilities I’ve tried for doing this, Ergonis Software’s Typinator remains the simplest and most reliable. Such a utility can also act as a live typographical error correction mechanism, if you set up some “abbreviations” that are actually mistakes your fingers habitually make, like inverting the “h” and the “e” in the word “the”. I’m a pretty good typist, but my thoughts still race ahead of my fingers, so it’s nice to have a utility for entering frequently used words and phrases by typing just an abbreviation. ![]() #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk. ![]() #1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook. ![]()
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