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May 24 2006

Textpander to TextExpander– donationware no more

152823515 13bef45b51 m Textpander to TextExpander donationware no moreOne of my favorite bits of shareware, Textpander, has been purchased by SmileOnMyMac, it is now called TextExpander and is no longer donationware — in fact it costs USD$30.

It is worth that much?

There is no denying it is an extremely useful piece of software and comparing it to Typinator 1.2 and TypeIt4Me 3 (b24), it certainly has the more robust feature set. In case you don’t already use it, TextExpander saves you time by allowing you to configure it to type the current time for you when you type “ttime” or the date when you type “ddate” or almost any formatted text or simple image when you trigger it with a user-defined bit of text. Excellent for hand coding!! But USD$30!? I dunno… I’m gonna have to think about this.

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Dec 31 2005

Jonathan Ive– Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

CNET reports that London-born Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of design, was awarded the title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by the queen on Friday .

Evidently Queen Elizabeth II of England really likes her iPod, the title she bestowed on Ive recognizes his achievements in industrial design as leader of the team that produced not only the iPod but also the iMac, iBook and PowerBook computer lines in his nearly 13-year career at Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple.

You gotta know he’s going to hold this over Job’s head: first Bill Gates gets knighted and now Jonathan Ive gets his CBE.

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