Posts tagged ‘textexpander’
A few more simple TextExpander snippets
June 19th, 2011 at 11:19 pm by Dr. Drang
Here’s another simple but useful TextExpander snippet library. It’s called “Numeric” and it’s what I use to insert fractions and other numeric and sort-of-numeric symbols. You can download it from here. The symbols and their abbreviations are as follows: To insert Type € ;euro £ ;pound ¢ ;cent ′ ;ft ″ ;in ½ ;1/2 ¼…
A couple of TextExpander thingies
June 16th, 2011 at 11:19 pm by Dr. Drang
I sent out a bill to a client the other day and decided I wanted to start putting the due date for my invoices in the body text of the emails they’re attached to. The due date is on the invoice itself, of course, but I figured an extra reminder wouldn’t hurt. And being me,…
TextExpander sparkline snippet
May 11th, 2011 at 11:04 pm by Dr. Drang
After seeing this Daring Fireball entry, this Kottke article, and then Alex Kerin’s original post, I had to write a script for generating Twitter sparklines via Unicode block characters. Sparklines are an Edward Tufte idea, little inline graphs that let you visualize data within the text you’re reading. Twitter sparklines aren’t exactly true to Tufte’s…
TextExpander 3.3 percent bug
April 24th, 2011 at 10:31 pm by Dr. Drang
TextExpander recently released version 3.3 of its essential Mac productivity utility. On Saturday morning, this message from Brett Terpstra showed up in my Twitter feed: Anyone else unable to run @TextExpander shell snippets? Something weird is going on here.4:47 AM Sat Apr 23, 2011@ttscoff Brett Terpstra I did a little testing and found that some…
TextExpander snippet prefixes again
April 11th, 2011 at 10:18 pm by Dr. Drang
Last week I wrote a couple of small scripts for transforming TextExpander snippet abbreviations. Today I added another script to the repository on GitHub. This one, called teprefix, changes the abbreviation prefixes in a TextExpander library file (one with a .textexpander extension). What’s an abbreviation prefix? Many TextExpander users put a 1-2 character “code” at…
Snippet surgery
April 3rd, 2011 at 12:16 am by Dr. Drang
Have you been to TE-Snippets yet? It’s a community site for sharing TextExpander tips and snippets set up by Alex Poslavsky. It’s been around for only a month or so but looks like a winner. A recent addition is TE-Tool, written by Brett Terpstra. TE-Tool is described here by Brett. The basic idea is this:…
Automating Amazon Associates
March 8th, 2011 at 7:54 am by Dr. Drang
I signed up for Amazon’s Associates program a few months ago. I figured if anyone ever buys something (pens, for example) based on my recommendation, I might as well get a little something, you know, for the effort. Amazon thinks it’s helping its associates out by providing a popup “window” that has one-click access to…
Settling my hash
February 7th, 2011 at 8:29 pm by Dr. Drang
Today I ran across a nasty bug that affects several of my TextExpander URL snippets. Fixing the bug was easy—it took exactly one keystroke—but I was surprised by two things: I hadn’t run into this bug before. It was a bug at all. The bug was in a Python script used by all my URL…
TextExpander, AppleScript, and Unicode
January 26th, 2011 at 8:44 am by Dr. Drang
One of my favorite and most-used TextExpander snippets displayed a bug a couple of days ago. I suspect the bug is due to the way TextExpander handles Unicode, and I haven’t figured out a workaround. The bug appeared as I was writing this post, and needed a link to this older post about Mac screen…
TextExpander snippet for web archives
December 25th, 2010 at 2:17 pm by Dr. Drang
If I think a web page is likely to be deleted or changed, and I want to be sure I have a copy of it, I use Safari’s Web Archive feature to store a local copy of the page with all its images. By default, Safari chooses the page’s title—the text that appears in the…
