We’re starting to plan the release of TextExpander 2, and we’re very keen to have user input.
You can help by taking a short online survey or just send us an email at textexpander@smileonmymac.com and let us know what features you wish TextExpander had.
Or if you prefer, let us know in the comments!
Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani posted some interesting personal information today: a screenshot how much time she has saved by using TextExpander. So far she’s saved 1.54 hours. For her, that’s worth at least the price of $29.95.
By total coincidence, Philip, Greg and I were talking about that yesterday, as we were discussing features for TextExpander 2 (more on that next week!). I found out my stats are pitiful compared to Greg and Philip. Here’s our screenshots:
Jean:
Philip (his would be higher if his mother board hadn’t gotten fried a while back):
Greg (the winner!):
Can anybody top Greg? Send your screenshot to me at jean@smileonmymac.com. Let us know how you racked up the hours and what you’re doing with all that time you saved! We’ll post the entries on the blog.
So what am I going to do with my time saved?
A post at the Literature and Latte forum has an interesting suggestion:
… according to TextExpander, I’ve saved almost three hours by not writing out names. Let’s see, three hours of my life returned to me… and one cigarette costs me one minute of my life… divided by twenty cigarettes a pack…
But I’m coming up on my tenth anniversary of quitting, so that won’t do. Can I eat some extra chocolate cake instead? (Let’s see: 6.94 hours of stationary bike = 3310 calories = 13.9 pieces of chocolate cake…)
If there’s one lesson to over five years in business shipping PageSender, that lesson is: listen to your customers. You folks are great. You use the product, buy the product, tell your friends about it, and you tell us what you need.
We shipped PageSender 4.0 this Tuesday, and it seems to have gone over well. You’ve asked for spam filtering and snazzier covers for some time, and we’re pleased to be able to deliver.
Frequently, people ask why it’s called PageSender and not FaxSender or PageFaxer. The answer is that PageSender 1.0 didn’t start out with support for faxing. PageSender was designed to make it easy to Email anything you could print, directly from the print dialog (and you can still do that today).
Almost immediately after PageSender 1.0 shipped, customers and potential customers wrote asking for fax modem send support. We delivered two months later. Then they asked for receive support. We delivered another two months later. In a short time, PageSender became fax software, and before long it became full-featured fax software. It’s not what we’d planned, but it’s what our customers wanted.
So, thank you for all your feedback! Keep it coming. We’ll continue to listen to what you need and to deliver it.
We just completed DiscLabel 4.2 late last night. The only problem with building software is there is never time to play with it! And this one is fun to play with, especially the new Effects feature. All it needs is an image selected and the effects button pressed:
You can start with an single photo of your loved one and really transform them like the following…
Individual effects can be combined easily, and the effects reordered. So if you are searching for that perfect background image for a CD, maybe it is simpler to just find one with the colors you like, and transform it with effects!