Feb 20
2012

Chetan Kunte recently sent me a TextExpander experiment he was working on, and I thought I’d post it and my explorations of it. It’s designed to add auto-pairing for bracket and quote characters to MarsEdit, and it’s based on a bit of information that I hadn’t been aware of before.

Feb 19
2012

I added a new group to the TextExpander Tools collection this morning: a set of snippets for working in AppleScript editor. The group is pretty barebones right now, but handy nonetheless. Feel free to submit any additions or expansions you come up with, I’ll gladly include them in the set (and credit you publicly).

Nov 25
2011

Since it’s Black Friday, I’m going to run a second giveaway today: TextExpander. It’s one of my all-time favorite Mac utilities, and I have quite a few free snippets available to demonstrate its usefulness. It’s available in the Mac App Store for US $34.99, and it’s worth every penny. Today, though, you can comment below and be entered for a chance at one of three free licenses.

Oct 15
2011

I had a strong urge to make a new TextExpander snippet this morning. I think the Date Math features of TextExpander that Donald Curtis turned me on to with his Date Time group got me thinking.

I find my OS X Service for natural language date conversion pretty handy. I think TextExpander could make it handier, though, with the form fill feature and a little more flexibility.

Mar 26
2011

Hey, TextExpander users! Wanna see something cool? I made a little tool this morning to allow any of my TextExpander groups to be installed with your own custom prefix. You can now use whatever is “standard” for your shortcuts. All of the group links on the project page now go to this tool, and you can open it directly for access to all of my groups.

Mar 23
2011

Thanks to Thomas Borowski, the Characters group in my TextExpander project has been expanded to include Home, End, Control, Escape, Enter and Delete symbols. Check it out on the TextExpander project page. If you already have the group installed from the URL, you can update it from within TextExpander.

Mar 20
2011

I just added a TextExpander group called “Filesystem” to my TextExpander project page. It’s just a small set of paths that I find myself typing often in support emails, but here’s the cool part: they also work in “Go to folder” mode in Finder dialogs.

If you’re not familiar with “Go to folder,” it’s a keyboard geeks way of navigating in Finder. From a finder…