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MacMerc.TV– TextExpander


Get more from every keystroke with Smile On My Mac’s TextExpander. Rick Yaeger puts the Preference Pane through its paces in this edition of MacMerc.TV.

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Be sure to subscribe to MacMerc.TV in iTunes to get the latest edition as soon as it becomes available. We offer an iPod version and an HD one for AppleTV.

If you have ideas (software you’d like featured or tech concepts you’d like explained) for future episodes of MacMerc.TV, send me an email.

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    If you decide to register TextExpander, use the code MACMERC09 when you check out and you’ll get 20% off!! This offer is only good until March 31, 2009, so hurry!!

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    • The photos I posted to my blog were taken for me as a favor by my friend and business partner Greg Grunberg.
    • The “crazy long Amazon.com link” I posted to Twitter was for Band from TV’s “Hoggin All The Covers” MacMerc.TV   TextExpander, a CD/DVD of Greg’s band. Proceeds from the sale of this album go toward helping a handful of awesome charities and I heartily recommend buying it. These actors can really rock.
    • The exclamation that jumps out of the happy Mac at the end of the show is the logo for the product Greg, August Trometer and I are bringing to the iTunes App Store: Yowza!!.
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    TextExpander bug-fix update 1.4.2 posted

    For registered users of SmileOnMyMac’s keystroke saving system add-on, a new bug-fix update has been posted. TextExpander 1.4.2 is a free update that fixes an issue concerning external snippet files causing problems in saving new snippets.

    External snippet files, like SmileOnMyMac’s AutoCorrect Snippet File, allow you to use pre-made collections of time-saving abbreviations that will automatically “bloop” out into useful text and/or pictures.

    TextExpander licenses sell for USD$29.95 each and are well worth the money in this writer’s opinion.

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    Clean your keyboard without fear of typing something disasterous in the process

    I love how you can take a program that has a seemingly detrimental effect, such as an application that intercepts and ignores keyboard activity–in effect disabling the keyboard–and give it a beneficial purpose and, suddenly, you have something quite clever.

    Keyboard Cleaner is just that application. It doesn’t actually clean your keyboard, but when you want to clean your keyboard, it will prevent you from deleting, renaming or activating something that you hadn’t intended to. It shields your desktop and intercepts every keystroke you might accidentally make–except for Command-Q (you’ve got to be able to quit Keyboard Cleaner after all).

    Keyboard Cleaner is a freeware Universal Binary.

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