In last Friday’s post on developing an electronic communication policy, Ethan mentioned that he was considering adopting SmileOnMyMac’s So what exactly does a text expansion application do? In short, ...

TextExpander is a slightly terrifying key logger a well-designed, intensely useful app for Mac & iOS that does exactly what it says on the tin: it takes little snippets of text and blows them up into ...

Typing the same things repeatedly — directions, instructions, URLs, or requests for information — in email messages or other documents is, as George Harrison in “A Hard Day’s Night” memorably put it, ...

Text expansion apps are a great way to save time when you find yourself typing the same information repeatedly, but they can do much more than that. One our favorites is TextExpander on Mac, and it's ...

TextExpander Touch installs a new keyboard that replaces the stock keyboard in an iPad or iPhone. It can insert any amount of text using short keyboard macros. You can return to the standard keyboard ...

The TextExpander utility saves keystrokes by letting you type a short sequence that’s replaced by a longer one. That’s the heart of the app, which has expanded (sorry) its repertoire of replacement ...

TextExpander is one of the most popular text expansion programs out there, but it’s always been a bit pricey at $35. Now, that price is jumping significantly with a new subscription model. The new ...

Smile on Thursday released TextExpander 4, the latest incarnation of its typing shortcut utility. Among the new features are additional options for “fill-in-the-blank” snippets, fill-ins for ...

I rely on Smile’s TextExpander to save keystrokes on my Mac on a daily basis, but the iOS counterpart, TextExpander touch, has always felt vastly underpowered due to limitations imposed by Apple on ...

I've used TextExpander on my Mac for years and it has saved me hours of typing time. If you frequently use TextExpander on your Mac or if you used it on your iOS device before iOS 8 allowed ...

If you’re anything like us, you can think of what you want to say far more quickly than your fingers can tap it out on your keyboard. That’s doubly true in iOS. You undoubtedly know about Smile’s ...