Justin has helped readers get more out of their tools since 2009, writing tutorials, features, and reviews for a variety of publications.

June 21, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google OS X: TextExpander, one of our favorite text expansion apps, has added a couple of new features to save you from ...

August 5, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Text expansion apps are a great way to save time when you find yourself typing the same information repeatedly, ...

Today Smile Software released TextExpander 4, the latest version of its typing shortcut app for OS X. The new version contains several new types of fill-in snippets, including support for multi-line ...

At our regular TidBITS staff meeting a week before Apple announced its third quarter financial results (see “iPads, iPhones Propel Apple’s $8.8 billion Q3 2012 Profit,” 24 July 2012), we discussed how ...

A few weeks ago, while I was preparing my coverage of Apple’s Q2 2013 earnings call, I grew tired of my system to resize and rename images on OS X, so I rebuilt it from scratch using Automator, Name ...

TextExpander is designed to save keystrokes. Instead of typing the same sequence again and again at full length, tap in a few characters and the app automatically drops in your replacement in whatever ...

The TextExpander utility saves keystrokes by letting you type a short sequence that’s replaced by a longer one. That’s the heart of the app, which has expanded (sorry) its repertoire of replacement ...

TextExpander, which helps those who need to reply to hundreds of emails and messages every day, is now even better, thanks to version 7.0. Here’s everything new with it. TextExpander 7.0 has a new ...