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- (Allison) Hi this is Allison Sheridan
and welcome to another edition of ScreenCastsOnline.
This week, I'd like to teach you
about TextExpander from Smile.
TextExpander's one of the very first applications
I install on a new Mac.
That's how critical it is to me.
TextExpander allows you to be more productive
by typing things for you that you repeatedly have to type.
When I use TextExpander,
I know I'm typing fewer words myself,
which has the added benefit of reducing stress from typing.
Let's think about things that you type over and over again.
How many times a day do you type your own name?
Or your phone number?
Or your address?
Maybe your physical address and your email address
get typed quite often.
You might work for a company where you type the company name
and the URL for that company.
Maybe you work for a help desk
and you have to answer the same questions
over and over again.
What if you didn't have to type those answers?
Maybe you're a programmer
and you'd like to save programming code snippets,
so you could easily just stick them right into your code.
Perhaps you have to write form letters from time to time.
TextExpander can help you write those, too.
You can insert dates automatically
and write very long phrases.
I like to use TextExpander for words I commonly misspell.
There's also things that are just difficult to type.
I can never remember, is the "B" in the middle of Facebook
capitalised or lowercase?
Is an iPad mini with a capital M or a lowercase M?
I don't have to remember
because when I see a word that's difficult for me to type,
I put it in TextExpander and then I know it will always
be typed correctly.
I realise that our audience is made up of people
who have maybe been using TextExpander for a very long time,
but also people who've never used TextExpander.
So I'm gonna start out slow,
explain the basics of the interface
and do some simple snippets.
But then we're gonna accelerate
and we're gonna get into the new advanced capabilities
available in TextExpander 6 that will really help you
up your game with TextExpander.
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TextExpander is available from TextExpander.com.
Let's take a look at pricing first
and you'll see that TextExpander 6 is available
as part of a subscription service.
It's $3.33 U.S. per month if billed annually
or $4.16 per month if billed monthly.
There's also team pricing but we're not going to focus
on teams today.
I'm gonna scroll down here and you'll see
that if you've got an older version,
they have upgrade pricing and it is still possible
to get the stand-alone apps.
But let's take a look at that.
You'll see that the stand-alone app is TextExpander 5.
As I said, we're going to be focusing
on some of the advanced features that are now available
in TextExpander 6,
so we will be working with the subscription service model.
I already have TextExpander installed,
so I'm going to just quit Safari and we'll go in
and look at TextExpander.
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