We released three updates tonight: TextExpander 2.0.3, BrowseBack 1.4.1, and PhotoPrinto 2.1.1. These updates add Leopard compatibility, and are free for registered users.
We had already updated our other products for Leopard: PDFpen 3.3, DiscLabel 4.4.1, and PageSender 4.1.
As always, if you have any problems, just get in touch with our friendly (and prompt!) support team.
Earlier this month, I went to New York to give a demo of our products at two Mac user groups, MetroMac in the city and LIMac on Long Island.
It was a great chance to meet current customers and hopefully win over new ones. (And I got to pretend to be Britney Spears with the headset microphone.)
With Chris Bastian, MetroMac president, at the Apple Store in Soho
LIMac demo: “Better Living Through Software”
With George Canellis, LIMac board member and Your Mac Life fan.
Philip Goward is interviewed on Pomcast.com, a European podcast, available in French, German, Spanish and English. (This interview is in English.) Philip talks about the new TextExpander 2.0, the newly-announced SDK for third-party developers on the iPhone, and more.
You can download the podcast from Pomcast.com, or listen to it in iTunes via this link.
Amusez-vous bien!
How Does Your Mac Make You Smile?
Your answer to this question could win you the new, shiny, irrestible, adorable iPod nano! Today we announced this contest. All the details and entry form can be found at the contest page on our site.
We’ll be giving away up to five nanos! The more entries we get, the more prizes we’ll add. And everyone who enters will be eligible for a random drawing for five copies of TextExpander. Plus, every contestant will get a discount coupon for SmileOnMyMac software.
The best answers, as judged by Shawn and Lesa King of Your Mac Life, will win the nanos. The deadline for entries is November 6, 2007, and the winners will be announced on November 7, 2007. So go ahead and enter!
Most of my working day, I am sending emails to two people: Greg and Philip, SmileOnMyMac’s co-founders and software developers. After reading Send: The Essential Guide to Email, I decided to more consistently open the emails with “Hi Greg,” “Hi Philip,” and sometimes, “Hi Greg and Philip,” to be a bit less cold.
A lot of us have a mental block against setting up TextExpander snippets for really short things like these phrases, which are 10, 12 and 21 keystrokes each (when you include hitting “Enter” twice, as I invariably do.) You have to use a minimum of 2 keystrokes to trigger the snippet expansion, so how much time do you really save?
This week, I decided to add “Hg” and “Hp” to TextExpander, as well as “HG” for “Hi Greg and Philip,”. And I got curious about how much time would this save me.
Over the past two years, I’ve sent 1145 emails to Greg, 532 emails to Philip and 839 emails addressed to both of them. Subtracting the 2 keystrokes for the abbreviation, I came up with 30,421 keystrokes I could have saved.
When TextExpander calculates how much time you save, it assumes you type 400 characters/minute. But I knew I couldn’t type the “Hi” phrases at that rate, so I tested myself. (Among other things, the iPhone has a great stopwatch…) At the rate, I actually type those phrases (200 characters/minute), I could have saved 2 hours and 32 minutes.
The happiness of finding something else I won’t have to type out over and over again: priceless.
Last weekend, the Houston Area Apple Users Group held their annual day-long MacFest and SmileOnMyMac was one of the sponsors. I went down to demo our products at the MacFest and had a GREAT time. My first visit to Texas!
Lesa King, co-host of Your Mac Life and my pal, was one of the speakers, along with Andy Ihnatko, Bob LeVitus and Chris Breen. I learned a lot from listening in on their sessions. I also got to eat barbecue and Tex-Mex, of course. The HAAUG folks were really nice, and I especially loved meeting SmileOnMyMac customers who came up to me to tell me how much they loved our programs.
Lesa and I gave presentations at the Apple Store in the Houston Galleria, hers covering Digital Photography and mine about PDFpen. Since we were there at the store, I asked Lesa (who is a big fan of PDFpen) to pose for another entry in our gallery of Apple Store photos!
