“Speed up typing with abbreviations”

For those of you that spend a major part of their day writing, having a good program to create and save abbreviations can be a real lifesaver. Typinator is one among many such applications but stands out thanks to its ease of use and functionalities.

Typinator is easily accessible from your menu bar. Once you open up the program window you'll see you can create your own set of abbreviations. Just type in the corresponding text in the box at the bottom of the window and enter the abbreviation. You can save all these in different sets, which are ordered at the top of the interface.

Although the program is limited to English, French and German it features really thorough correction sets for the three languages, which should ensure you don't make any typos.

Typinator integrates perfectly in any word processing program and will read imported snippet files from similar applications like Textexpander or TypeIt4Me.

Simple to use and great to store all sorts of abbreviations, Typinator will save you loads of time when typing up documents.

Languages:

English, German, French

Recent changes in Typinator:

Typinator now acts as a dockless application with a status bar menu item.
Search field in the toolbar allows quick searching for abbreviations and expansions.
Typinator now supports single-character abbreviations.
Automatic checking for new versions.
Typinator now includes the TidBITS AutoCorrection set.
Restores the original type-selection feature within lists on Leopard.
Works around a bug in InDesign that causes InDesign CS3 to crash after copying guides to the clipboard while Typinator is running.
Fixes a problem that caused Typinator to forget the setting of the list splitter.
On some Macs, the abbreviation window always appeared when Typinator was launched even though the corresponding preferences setting was turned off.
Fixes a crash after importing new sets.
Typinator now correctly disables itself in Parallels Desktop.
Fixes incorrect cursor positioning in Camino.
Works around a bug in the implementation of the Paste command in ScreenSteps.
Typinator now allows custom set assignments for X11.
Fixes a problem with updates of the abbreviation list after selecting a new set.
Fixes a crash when the sets were modified on disk.
Fixes a problem that could cause loss of the expansion text when changing the expansion type from plain to formatted and vice versa.
Printing of large sets is now significantly faster.
Improved layout of printed pages fits more abbreviations on each page.
More detailed indicators for situations in which Typinator is disabled
Various cosmetic improvements.
Refined versions of the built-in autocorrection sets create fewer conflicts among languages.
Improved handling of the terminator character typed to complete a "whole word" abbreviation.
Typinator now requires Mac OS X 10.4 or newer.

Limitations:

Only 5 abbreviations can be defined

Minimum requirements for Typinator:

OS: Mac OS X

Minimum requirements:

Processor: PPC/Intel MHz
Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Pros

Saves time when typing
Good AutoCorrection sets

Cons

Don't get lost in your abbreviations!
Limited to English, French and German

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From the publisher of Typinator

Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, email address, home page url, and other words or phrases again, again and again? Or do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often introduce errors when retyping standard business text?

Typinator boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics.

Configuration is easy - You just define abbreviations and their replacement text or picture. Usage is even easier - Whenever you type one of these abbreviations in an arbitrary application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement. Save your time and annoyance and let Typinator type repeating texts and pictures for you.

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
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