TextExpander is a Star
TextExpander is featured on MacBreak. Merlin Mann of 43 Folders is a big TextExpander fan, and he shows host Leo Laporte what makes TextExpander so powerful and, ultimately, so cool. Leo actually says “It is the single best productivity tool on the Mac, right after Quicksilver.”
Check out the segment. It’s a little under 9 minutes long, and you get a glimpse of the wacky uses that Merlin has for TextExpander amongst his 700+ snippets!
Now that TextExpander is a big star, will deign to hang out with PDFpen and the rest of the gang in the Productivity Suite? 
February 26th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
And that’s where I learned about it. Kinda nice, wished it would actually save the preferences I set.
February 26th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Sorry to hear you are having a problem with TextExpander. This sounds like a case for TextExpander Support – drop them an email at textexpander [at] smileonmymac [dot] com.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:52 am
To everyone who has a TextExpander problem and rolls eyes when prompted to contact service in your own email app… Well, 2 emails back and forth and the issue was solved.
A nice and positive feel, they take the “smile” part very seriously.
March 1st, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Merlin said something about there being a Microsoft Word autocorrect file for TE. It sounded like that’s where the bulk of his comes from.
Is he talking about the one that you have here or another one? Might be a good thing to find and link here!
March 1st, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I created the autocorrect typo file on our site, based on various lists of common misspellings.
There was a file for the old Textpander, which might have come from a file for Word, but it was way too big, with lots of conflicting abbreviations. For example, it had acheive/achieve and acheived/achieved. The “acheive” would expand before you ever typed “acheived”.
In the segment, you’ll notice Merlin has some abbreviations highlighted in red, meaning they conflict…
March 1st, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I also love that Merlin has an autocorrect for his own name, which he routinely misspells as “Melrin”
March 1st, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Besides having an auto correct for my name to (FRank - consistently) I can finally switch from my German keyboard to a US keyboard where I for some reason type faster and with less typos. I just type /ue for ü and so on - faster than the “simple way” of digging up the key combos and memorizing them. Also Kanji and Hangul phrases that I regularly use and are a pain to type.
@Jean: I noticed that some sides of my brain are marked red as well. Not being TextExpander it just means “in development”.