Hello Harry, I haven't bought this app for the mac but on the iPhone, it was very accessible. On the mac, I find it very expensive while there is a free alternative built in to the mac which is doing basically the same. If you go to system preferences > keyboard > tab control keyboard > button input sources > text: you can do there the same. a difference could be that you can't type whole paragraphs because the return/enter key isn't accepted. For this reason , I don't buy text expander for the mac.
If there are comments from others about that, please feel free to give a reaction. kind regards, William Windels Op 25-jul.-2012, om 10:30 heeft Harry Hogue het volgende geschreven: > Hi, guys, > > I would be very surprised if there isn't at least one member of this list who > doesn't already use this application, but I just heard about it tonight on a > podcast, and just now downloaded the free trial (the full version may be > purchased for $35.00). It is called Text Expander, and it allows you to > assign abbreviations to type out your e-mail address, your e-mail signature, > your home address, or even entire paragraphs of text. If I had text expander > running, for example, I could type, "You may contact me at ;em if you have > any questions." Then, the ";em" (without the quotes) would become my e-mail > address. It is fully accessible, and in fact mentions enabling universal > access at the outset. I will warn that it is a bit pesky at first, at least > with the trial, as it wants yo to purchase, then sign up for the news letter, > etc. but it truly does seem like a fantastic application. Again, it is > $35.00 and runs on the Mac OS. A feature which seems very useful, but which > I have yet to try, is an ability to fill in custom fields when writing a > reply,. The example they give is for a response to a donation to a company, > where the responder wishes to thank the donor and tell ways in which his or > her specific dollar amount will be used. I can definitely see myself using > it when filling out online forms which constantly ask for name, e-mail, home > address, telephone, cell, etc. > > The website is www.smilesoftware.com/textexpander. I haven't looked at any > of the other applications on the site yet, and I was very surprised to find > this worked as well as it does and is as accessible as it is. So far, it is > completely useable. The only interesting point is that the test areas in the > tutorial, where you go to set up the various snippets, as it calls the > abbreviations for text to be inserted, is that the test area to try the > abbreviations out do not work, at least when I tried it. > > Again, if you have any questions feel free to ask. I have just started using > it, as of about ten minutes ago, but it truly seems fantastic. For those > with some sight, visuals such as images may also be inserted. > > Take care. Is anyone else looking forward to seeing how the dictation > feature may or may not work so well in Mountain Lion? I'm always unsure of > dictation programs and things of that sort. > > Take care, > > Harry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries?hl=en.
