Typinator is an office tool that helps you boost up your productivity while writing text content on your Mac. It might prove to be of good use if you're the type of user who repeatedly writes certain snippets of text content in emails or documents, such as dates, full names or addresses, email accounts, etc.
Before using Typinator on your Mac you first need to grant it permission to operate from the System Preferences tool (go to Security & Privacy -> Accessibility). Then, the program will launch and its icon will be displayed on your Menu Bar.
You have access to a comprehensive help manual, various abbreviation examples, and plenty of useful hints. So, you won't need much Mac experience in order to work with this utility. For example, you can define the "typenm" abbreviation with the expansion "Anne J. Smith". Afterwards, if you type the "typenm" term into programs like a web browser or TextEdit, the term will be replaced by "Anne J. Smith".
The program enables you to define as many abbreviations as you like and sort them into sets. You can also use the integrated search tool to immediately find the abbreviation profile you need.
To be honest, I can't find a single bad thing to say about this utility. It's very easy-to-use, works 100%, and brings you many useful features. Plus, it comes with a very reasonable price.
v5.2 [Sep 18, 2012]
- Compatible with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
- Typinator can now import Spell Catcher glossaries that have been exported as XML files.
- New technique for passing context variables to AppleScripts in Unicode format.
- Improves import from text files.
- Formatted text expansions now also work for certain applications that understand only HTML-formatted text.
- Internal redesign of the event mechanism.
- Improves performance and reliability of clipboard-based expansions.
- Cleanup: no longer supports old-style AppleScript expansions.
- Improved message in the registration window.
- Registration reminders appear less frequently in trial mode.
- Improved timing for clipboard restoration.
- Avoids a delay caused by feedback sounds in certain circumstances.
- Typinator's "Show Window" hotkey now also works when a sheet is attached to the main window.
- Works around an expansion problem in Save sheets.
- The Installer's completion sound now plays through the "sound effects" channel and respects the alert volume as defined in System Preferences.
- Works around an initial delay in many clipboard-based expansions.
- Expansion feedback sounds play through the "sound effects" channel specified in System Preferences.
- Subtle time-drift problem solved: All date and time items inside an expansion now refer to the exact time when the abbreviation was typed.
- Undo now works in the Notes field in the Set Info window.
- Fixes a problem that caused loss of pictures in formatted expansions.
- Resolves a shortcut conflict with Adobe Photoshop.
- Fixes a potential crash when changing the default feedback sounds in Typinator's preferences.
- Works around a cursor positioning problem in Cocoa applications when the expansion contains degrees or caret symbols.
- Correctly positions the cursor in expansions containing certain special Unicode characters.
- Solves an expansion problem inside spreadsheet cells in Numbers.
- Fixes a rare lock-up during a Quick Search.
- Improved rounding in the "General" format of the pocket calculator.
- New technique for adding Typinator to the list of Login Items now also works for Mountain Lion.
- Fixes an expansion problem that was introduced with Pages 4.2. Numbers 2.2 and Keynote 5.2.
- Works around a cursor positioning problem in Numbers.
- No longer disables expansions when an ATOK input source is selected.
- Works around an expansion and cursor positioning problem in Xcode 4.
- Improves handling of quickly typed abbreviations that follow each other immediately.
- Now correctly handles cases where a character that terminated a "whole word" expansion is the beginning of the next abbreviation.
- Typinator no longer suppresses formatted expansions or expansions that include backspaces if they match the typed abbreviation.
- Avoids a delay before the first expansion takes place in an application.
- Works around a potential lock-up in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Typinator now correctly recognizes Java applications with non-standard process signatures.
- Improves handling of longer and multi-line expansions in CafeTran.
- Fixes an issue where the font and color panels could not be used in rich text expansions after switching to another application.
- Works around a timing problem with clipboard-based expansions in TextMate.
- Now works with the English variant of the "Baram" input source for Korean.
- Fixes a crash on Mountain Lion when importing or exporting sets under certain circumstances.
- Improved detection of AppleScript parameters that consist of multiple lines.
- Improves handling of the "start at login" setting in cases where the Typinator application was renamed.
- The installer now uses an improved technique for finding the preferred destination location.
- Works around an expansion problem when renaming a document via its window title on Mountain Lion.
- Typinator now correctly disables itself in Windows applications running in coherence mode in Parallels.
