Archive for April, 2008

TextExpander: Catching Up with Really Fast Typists

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

We just released TextExpander 2.1 this week. It now supports one-character abbreviations. If you use a delimiter to trigger your expansions, you can turn any letter or character into an abbreviation for a snippet.

We also improved the performance and reliability for really fast typists. I say “really” fast, because I am a fast typist, and I never had a problem with TextExpander not keeping up with me. I just tested myself at 10 Fast Fingers, which I found via a b0rg_tech’s blog post, “Saving Seconds.”

Want to challenge me? :-)
70 words

Guest Appearance on Your Mac Life

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I’m in New York City this week, and decided to take a detour up to Connecticut to visit with Shawn and Lesa King, co-hosts of Your Mac Life, the Mac talk show of which SmileOnMyMac is a proud sponsor.

I had the fun of being a live in-studio guest on the show, talking about SmileOnMyMac, how we got started and my favorite products. I also got to experience the thrill of riding around the backroads of Connecticut on the back of Shawn’s motorcycle. We took a long tour from Danbury down to Westport. It was a beautiful day, not too cold. I borrowed riding gear from Lesa, in which I felt ready for a cameo on Battlestar Galactica.

Jean & ShawnThe show is available as a streaming audio file at the Your Mac Life site until April 22nd. You can also subscribe to Your Mac Life at Audible.com, which makes it possible for you to download episodes to load onto your iPod.