Typinator 4.5

Typinator is for you if you've ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, and other words or phrases again, again and again. Or if you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents.

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,
predefined sets for auto-correction, HTML, Filemaker functions,
import snippets from other typing utilities, including Textpander,
TextExpander, and TypeIt4Me,
insert 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

Version 4.5:
Typinator can now import MS Office "ACL" files.
Typinator now works with abbreviations in right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew.
On Mac OS X 10.5 and newer, searching for abbreviations now disregards diacritical marks, so "e" also matches "é", etc.
Abbreviations in disabled sets are no longer considered in conflict checks.
The ** wildcard for disregarding keywords in the Quick Search can now be specified anywhere in the search string.
Expansions are inserted in all upper case when the caps lock key is active.
In the Quick Search, exact phrases (as opposed to separate words) can be specified in quotes.
In the search field in the Typinator window, diacritical marks are respected for strings enclosed in quotes.
New technique for dealing with special requirements of incompatible applications.
Improved saving and restoring technique for the clipboard contents.
When the Typinator window is open, command-alt-F now enters the Search field even when the focus is inside the expansion text field.
Shift-tab navigate backwards from the expansion field to the abbreviation field.
Improved detection of exceptional cases; Typinator's menu bar icon now shows more accurate status information.
Typinator's installer no longer displays a premature warning when the "Enable access for assistive devices" option is turned off in System Preferences.
Works around a problem in RockMelt that caused multi-line expansions to appear on the same line.
Reduces the clipboard restoration delay in Safari.
Fixes a problem with "quick expansion" in Nimbuzz.
Accelerates expansion in UltraEdit.
Addresses a problem that resulted in truncated expansions in BBEdit.
Fixes a visual glitch that lead to indented display of plain text expansion fields when the last line of a previously displayed formatted text was indented.
Works around a long delay when copying large images in PhotoLine.
Fixes a problem that caused leftover abbreviations in Vectorworks.
Fixes a problem with multi-line expansions in Sparrow 1.2.
Works around an issue with large bitmap images in the clipboard.
Typinator provides a "flush buffer" mechanism for third-party applications.
Speed improvements when large sets are disabled.
Enabling and disabling sets in the set list now correctly updates all hints about conflicts.
Works around an insertion problem in Google Earth.
Solves a "quick expansion" issue in Texmaker.
Works around a long delay during rapid copy/paste sequences.
Fixes a localization issue in the download progress window.
Works around an issue where abbreviations were not properly replaced with expansions in Path Finder's terminal window.
Works around expansion issues in Aptana Studio.
Fixes a cursor positioning error in Coda that was introduced with Typinator 4.4.
Typinator disables itself in the Paypen application to work around issues with the scanning process.
Works around an expansion issue with LiveCode.
New wording in the installer clarifies the situation when an existing license does not cover the new version.
Works around an issue with troubles in certain Windows applications running inside a Citrix environment.
Works around a conflict with TweetDeck's autocompletion of user names.
Works around a cursor positioning problem in Safari 5.1.
Solves an issue that caused the terminating character after a "whole word" abbreviation to get inserted before the expansion.
Works around a problem with multi-line expansions in custom browsers created with Fluid.
Small adjustments and extensions of the predefined English AutoCorrection sets.
Solves an issue with quick expansion in Eddie.
Works around an expansion issue with Canvas X.
Fixes incorrect handling of abbreviations that immediately follow apostrophes.