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…

Feb 28
2011

Thanks to Michael Jones for brightening an otherwise dull day for me. He pointed me to placekitten, a site that mimics placehold​.it and inserts dummy images into HTML mockups for you. The difference being that placekitten does it with pictures of, yes, kittens.

While you might not ever show a design filled with kittens to the average client, you can keep yourself feeling warm…

Feb 17
2011

It may come as a surprise to some (many), but I’ve never really made effective use of TextExpander on my iPad or iPhone (TextExpander touch). I don’t do a lot of the things on my iPad which I do on my desktop, and the things that are similar often don’t support TE. When I want to write some Markdown quickly, I use Nebulous Notes with my custom macros. Lastly, my shell scripts…