Typinator is a simple application that helps you to quickly type phrases or insert pictures in documents. Configuration is easy: You just define abbreviations and their expansion text or picture. Whenever you type one of these abbreviations in an arbitrary application, Typinator inserts the corresponding expansion.

Typinator can be helpful for a variety of tasks. You can use it to increase your …
Personal Productivity:
• set up a list of often used e-mail phrases, addresses and other boilerplates
• insert the current date and/or time in a variety of formats with a few keystrokes
• Auto-correct commonly misspelled words across all the application you use.
• Insert pictures, such as signatures and smilies

Business Productivity:
• Create standard customer service responses
• Acknowledge customer orders and send shipping advisories (with the current date and time automatically inserted into your standard text)
• Insert logo, product schematics, and maps
• Auto-correct your most frequent typing errors
• insert Unicode symbols by typing a few special regular characters (e.g., type “->” to insert an arrow symbol)

Development Productivity:
• Create templates for code fragments, code blocks, and templates
• Implement Documentation Standards
• Define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands

System Requirements
Typinator requires Mac OS X 10.4 or newer. Mac OS X 10.5 or newer is recommended.

Installation
To install Typinator, simply copy it to a convenient place on your startup disk. We recom- mend putting it into the Applications folder. After copying Typinator, unmount the distribution disk image and start Typinator by double-clicking its icon.

Download pdf Typinator User’s Guide