On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 31, 2010, at 17:58:06, Christopher Forsythe wrote: >> I've never even heard of typeit4me. > > TypeIt4Me is a classic Mac utility going back all the way to the Mac OS days. > It lets you type in long strings of text by typing in short strings of text; > it overwrites the abbreviation you type with the expansion you defined for it. > > Apple made it mostly obsolete in Snow Leopard, with the Text Substitutions > functionality, though some TypeIt4Me users may stick to it for reasons of > behavior differences or possibly some feature TypeIt4Me has that Snow Leopard > doesn't have.
Off-topic, but the primary advantage is that it works everywhere. Text Substitutions sadly doesn't. It also needs to be turned on each application individually (if you're allowed to do so in that app, and if it remembers it was turned on). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
