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Fixed A Troublesome TextExpander Bug

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Further to our post about disappearing snippets, we have identified at least one issue and have fixed it in TextExpander 3.1.1. We’ve seeded this fix to several customers and have received positive feedback that it fixed the problem for them.

Please download and install the TextExpander 3.1.1 update. If you do experience a snippet loss, please let us know. If there are any other issues, we want to find them.

Per our earlier post, please do the following if you experience the problem:

If you experience this problem, you can restore your snippet library by quitting TextExpander and restoring this file from your Time Machine or other backup:

[Home]/Library/Application Support/TextExpander/Settings.textexpander

Before you re-launch TextExpander, please also send a copy of the restored file to us at textexpander@smileonmymac.com. This is especially helpful if you find the problem recurs for you. If we gather enough settings files, hopefully we’ll find one with which we can reproduce the problem. If we can reproduce it we can almost certainly fix it. In the meantime, we’re very sorry for the inconvenience.

We appreciate your help in making TextExpander the best it can be.

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More TextExpander Date and Time Formatting Options

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

TextExpander 3.1 and TextExpander touch 1.1.6 now support Unicode Date Format Patterns.

This means TextExpander now has support for time zone, era, day of year, and calendar quarter.

For example:

This is day number %date:D% of the current year. We’re now in the %date:qqqq% (%date:qqq%). I’m expanding in %date:zzzz%. Today is %date:yyyy.MM.dd G%.

Expands at the time of writing this post to:

This is day number 216 of the current year. We’re now in the 3rd quarter (Q3). I’m expanding in Pacific Daylight Time. Today is 2010.08.04 AD.

There’s tons of detail in the Unicode Date Format Patterns documentation. Feel free to write us if you have questions.

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Troublesome TextExpander Bugs: How You Can Help

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Disappearing Snippets

We’ve received a number of reports of disappearing snippet libraries from TextExpander users. Data loss is one of the worst kinds of bugs. While we can help users restore their settings file from a backup, that’s the best we can do. We want to do better and fix this. Unfortunately, we can’t reproduce it.

If you experience this problem, you can restore your snippet library by quitting TextExpander and restoring this file from your Time Machine or other backup:

[Home]/Library/Application Support/TextExpander/Settings.textexpander

Before you re-launch TextExpander, please also send a copy of the restored file to us at textexpander@smileonmymac.com. This is especially helpful if you find the problem recurs for you. If we gather enough settings files, hopefully we’ll find one with which we can reproduce the problem. If we can reproduce it we can almost certainly fix it. In the meantime, we’re very sorry for the inconvenience.

Firefox Bug Can Disable TextExpander

TextExpander users who use Firefox sometimes find that TextExpander stops expanding. Quitting and re-launching Firefox restores TextExpander functionality. Let me explain why this is happening and ask for your help.

Firefox enables secure event input when it presents password fields. If you submit a form by pressing Return in a password field, Firefox doesn’t turn off secure event input. When secure event input is on, key loggers such as TextExpander do not receive notification of keyboard events.

You can work around this problem after the fact by closing the window which held the field or by quitting and re-launching Firefox. You can avoid this problem by submitting form fields using the Submit button rather than pressing return in a field.

There’s a bug open on the issue but its up to the Mozilla folks to adopt the fix and release an updated version of Firefox:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556873

You can help by voting up this bug. Click on the “vote” link then register and vote for this bug. Perhaps if its priority increases, it will get noticed and addressed. Thanks!

As always, if you have comments or questions about TextExpander, let us know.

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Indie+Relief: Mac Developers Raise Money for Haiti

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

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Approximately 150 independent Mac and iPhone software developers have pledged to contribute their sales for the day of January 20th to Haiti relief. The effort is called Indie+Relief.

SmileOnMyMac will contribute the sales of PDFpen and TextExpander to Mercy Corps and Doctors Without Borders.

The needs in Haiti are immense. Its capital lies in ruins, as many as 200,000 may be dead, and survivors are increasingly desperate for food, clean water and shelter.

Check out Indie+Relief. You’ll find an incredible collection of software from the best Mac and iPhone developers and your purchases will help ameliorate a dire situation.

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Shorten your URLs with TextExpander and Clicky.me

Friday, November 27th, 2009

TextExpander comes with an Internet Productivity suite that contains URL shortening snippets for a variety of services including bit.ly and is.gd. One of the newer services that I just discovered is called Clicky. Clicky is a Web analytics package that makes tracking how people are finding and using your Web sites a breeze. As part of the package they also offer a URL shortening service called clicky.me.

I’ve started using clicky.me for all my shortened URLs, and of course I need a TextExpander snippet to do that. The snippet takes any URL that is on your Mac’s clipboard and runs it through Clicky’s API to generate a shortened URL that you can paste into Twitter, Facebook or anywhere you so desire.

Note: You do need a Clicky user account, which is free for low volume users.

Read on for instructions on how to use this snippet.

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Use TextExpander with Dropbox 2.0

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Update: TextExpander 3 has built-in Dropbox sync.  (Preferences > Sync > Dropbox)

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