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TypeIt4Me 3.0 |
TextExpander 1.3.1 |
Typinator 1.2 |
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Type of program
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System Preference
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System Preference
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Startup Application
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Clippings with formatted text & pictures
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Case entered affects clipping
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Auto date expansion
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Limit usage to application list
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Menubar menu for entering clippings
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Reposition cursor on expansion
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Create clipping from selected text
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Expand abbreviations referenced in clippings (clipping nesting)
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Export clippings file
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N/A as user can
save file(s) where
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Export TAB delimited list of
clippings via copy/paste
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Services menu item to create Clippings
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why reach 4 service
menu when hot key
achieves same result? |
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Import Clippings from other typing utilities
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Application specific Clippings (associate any
single clipping with any application)
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Application specific Clippings file (associate
an entire clippings file with any application)
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Handle TABs & CRs in forms
(e.g. allows entering username/password
with a single abbreviation)
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Enable/disable via menubar and keyboard
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User defined hot keys
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Strip 's' for plurals (type words in the plural
without the need to define two abbs)
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View and/or Print all clippings
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Actively supported since 1989 (17 years!)
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Multiple clippings files
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one additional
read-only file
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Abbreviation trigger options
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space, return, tab
plus 30 other
punctuation
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space, return, tab
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abbreviation only
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Price
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$27
($14 academic)
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$29.95
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$19.99
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Localization versions
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English, French,
German, Italian
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English, French,
German, Japanese,
Italian
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English
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Localized help
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English
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English, French,
German, Japanese,
Italian
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English
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