here is to open my Documents folder using “dc;”

tell application “Finder”
activate
open folder “Macintosh HD:Users:tonyamini:Documents”
end tell

here is to center the front window to the screen using “wc;”

tell application “System Events”
set fma to first process whose frontmost is true
end tell

tell application (name of fma)
set fmwBounds to bounds of first window
end tell

tell application “Finder”
set desktopBounds to bounds of window of desktop
end tell

set fmwWidth to (item 3 of fmwBounds) - (item 1 of fmwBounds)
set fmwHeight to (item 4 of fmwBounds) - (item 2 of fmwBounds)

set desktopWidth to (item 3 of desktopBounds) - (item 1 of desktopBounds)
set desktopHeight to (item 4 of desktopBounds) - (item 2 of desktopBounds)

set newX to (desktopWidth / 2) - (fmwWidth / 2)
set newY to (desktopHeight / 2) - (fmwHeight / 2)

set newBounds to {newX, newY, newX + fmwWidth, newY + fmwHeight}
tell application (name of fma)
set bounds of first window to newBounds
end tell

To open System Preferences using “sp;”

tell application “System Preferences”
activate
end tell

To open TextExpander Preferences using “tp;” (maybe different depending on each person’s computer):

tell application “System Preferences”
activate
set current pane to pane “TextExpander”
end tell
tell application “System Events”
tell process “System Preferences”
click radio button 2 of tab group 1 of window “TextExpander”
end tell
end tell

To open iCal using “ic;”

tell application “iCal”
activate
end tell
tell application “System Events”
tell process “iCal”
keystroke “0″ using {command down}
end tell
end tell

I love AppleScript and TextExpander together. I also like how it does not perform backspaces to delete the snippet abbreviation. Other text expansion software adds backspaces when using AppleScript. This is a deal breaker as it can disrupt the AppleScripts themselves.

Cheers.

It never, ever expands falsely unless I type wrong. Makes typing very quick.

It also allows much expansion. It is very powerful when used with AppleScripts to resize windows, open Preferences, examples below.

Examples:

as; → AS
aas; → AppleScript
tap; → tell application “”

d; → down arrow symbol ↓
u; → up arrow symbol ↑

tte; → TextExpander

It also allows me to not have to use the shift key for caps, and I also add an extra trailing space so I don’t have to hit the spacebar:

i; → I (trailing space)
im; → I’m (trailing space)

some abbreviations (medical below), I don’t use the semicolon:

lvh → LVH
copd → COPD

Pressing tab key first clears the key memory so that I can from any application run an AppleScript.

Cheers.

For any URL I use what it the URL relates to and end the abbreviation with url. So, if I need to tell a patient or a physician that they need a special vitamin D level done at a particular lab, I can indicate that with vitDquesturl. Expanded with spacebar tap it looks like:
http://cas2.questdiagnostics.com/scripts/webdos.wls?MGWLPN=TBCWP65&wlapp=DOS&OrderCode=17306X&SITE=4&SearchString=VSaturday&tmradio=title

For my emails in closing I would type “sr” for Sincere regards,
Stephen or “mbty” for
My best to you,
Stephen

For medical terms I use the zero after the abbreviation; for example: PSADT stands for PSA doubling time. I use snippet PSADT0.
Thus, expanded “psadt0″ = PSA doubling time (PSADT)

I hope this helps,

Regards to all,
Stephen

For web sites I use ‘www’ and then a short code, so my personal site is wwwbu.

I actually find that longer snippets are more easily remembered than short ones and an extra character or two doesn’t slow me down too much.

For instance, all my URL snippets are very short and end with a backslash:
b/ = http://beckism.com/

My email address snippets (which I use a lot) are usually the first part of an address (or abbreviations, for longer email addresses) followed by the @ sign:
ian@ = ian@mydomain.com

And finally, my salutations for emails end with a comma:
hf, = Hey folks,

Then I have a number of work related snippets that start with “tt” because I work for a company called Tierra Technology, but I actually find it harder to remember those. The last character works really well for me because so far I’ve been able to use characters that I associate with the context or that I need to type anyway.