Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, or other words or phrases again, again and again?

Or do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often introduce errors when retyping standard business text?

Are you looking for an automatic text software that handles such issues for you?

Typinator is an automatic text software that boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics.

You can use Typinator to...
· quickly type greeting phrases,
· set up a list of standard text fragments to be used in e-mail replies,
· insert the current date and/or time in arbitrary formats with a few keystrokes,
· Auto-correct your most frequent typos in all applications system-wide,
· "type" pictures, such as smilies or bullets,
· insert Unicode symbols by typing a few special regular characters (e.g., type "->" to insert an arrow symbol),
· define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands,
· quickly create templates for code fragments, if you are a programmer, and more.

Here are some key features of "Typinator":

· Easy to configure - Just define your abbreviations and replacements.
· Simple to use - Just type your abbreviation - You do not need to press a special key or enter a special character.
· Works across all the applications used on your system.
· "Type" pictures
· Date & Time placeholders - Define replacement text that contains date and/or time placeholders when the abbreviation is used, the text will be expanded with the current date and time inserted into your text
· Full Unicode support
· Easy to Install - no special service needs to be installed.

Limitations:

· Only 5 abbreviations possible.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New technique for easy installation and update.
· Customizable keyboard shortcuts for opening the Typinator window and pausing Typinator.
· Reorganized Preferences window.
· Clicking the icon in the menu bar now opens the Typinator window with a single click; a small triangle provides quick access to the menu.
· Faster updates of the menu bar icon in the case of state changes.
· Opening the Typinator window no longer causes space switches.
· New "Check for Updates" item in the Typinator menu allows for quick checking for new versions.
· Typinator now correctly disables itself when CoRD (Cocoa Remote Desktop) is the active application.
· Works around a problem where a sets folder inside a FileVault-encrypted home folder was rejected because it was "removable".
· Fixes an issue when the iDisk was not yet available during startup or login.
· Fixes a problem with incorrect pasteboard formats that caused an increase of the CPU load.
· Works around an issue in Mail where multiple spaces in the expansion were replaced with a single space.
· Fixes an issue with Eudora 6 where Typinator failed to remove the abbreviation before inserting the expansion.
· Fixes an irritating error message when Typinator was registered with a newer license key.
· Improved version checking during beta tests.
· Fixes a problem with multi-line expansions in SeaMonkey.
· Typinator now correctly disables itself for Windows applications running in Unity mode in VMWare Fusion.
· Works around a problem with expansions in certain web pages with Safari and Google Chrome.
· Fixes a problem with expansions in Flash-based web content in Safari.
· Typinator now suppresses strange tooltips that appear when the mouse pointer is over a long expansion in the abbreviation table.
· Works around a problem that caused insertion of incorrect line endings in SubEthaEdit.
· Fixes a problem with multi-line expansions in WebKit.
· Fixes a cosmetic issue with separator lines in the preference panel.
· Fixes an error that caused the "match case" option to fail when the abbreviation was in all upper case.
· Works around a problem with TIFF clipboard contents created by Adobe Fireworks.