What does TypeIt4Me do?
Anytime you enter text in your Mac by typing it at the keyboard, TypeIt4Me can help you do it faster and more accurately.
First you define a number of abbreviations and the full text entries that they represent, then you watch the Mac expand them on the fly even as you continue typing!
If this sounds a lot like Word's AutoCorrect feature, it's because it does very much the same thing. However:
Abbreviations can represent any text you like:
To trigger the automatic typing of the text represented by an abbreviation you can either:
For example, instead of typing my name in full, I simply type 're' and TypeIt4Me comes up with 'Riccardo Ettore'. (And, no, TypeIt4Me will not bother me when I type 'more' or 'read' or 'area', since it looks for the letters 're' as a separate word, i.e. preceded and followed by punctuation marks.)
Even if you already use your word processor's own glossary feature or a macro utility such as Quickeys or KeyQuencer, please give TypeIt4Me a try. You'll be surprised at how much easier it is to remember and type an abbreviation you make up, rather than having to memorize keyboard combinations such as control-shift-something-or-other.
Also, once you define an abbreviation, it is available at all times, anywhere text can be typed, no matter if you are using your word processor, paint program, Finder, address book or any application at all!
The following links will let you download TypeIt4Me 4.8.1 released Sunday, June 6, 1999:
Download TypeIt4Me Installer (531K) From the AOL US site
You can safely register any of my shareware programs online through Kagi.
In an article on Now Utilities, MacWeek's Ross Scott Rubin had this to say: "And Now Auto Type lacks the stability and some features of TypeIt4Me, Riccardo Ettore's mature shareware control panel"
And Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus said this in an article on Spell Catcher: "The other feature that I use daily (hourly?) is the glossary, where you store typing shortcuts that work in any program. For example, when I type "vty(space)" Spell Catcher expands it to "very truly yours," in the wink of an eye. I type "sfd(space)" and "Macintosh System 7.5 For Dummies" appears in my document. Complete with the quotation marks. Trust me, you'll quickly become addicted to this feature if you just take the time to learn to use it.
A brief aside: If you aren't going to spring for Spell Catcher, the shareware program TypeIt4Me by Riccardo Ettore does this trick (but not spell checking or any of the other stuff). It's worth getting one or the other if you type much. "
"I've discovered that this program is absolutely great as far as writing is concerned. Having built my data file one word at a time, I can for the first time write as fast as I can think. Or, to type those two sentences with expansion turned off: iv dscvd ta th prg s absl gr afa wrig s ksnd. Vg blt my data file one word at a ti, i c f t first ti wri as fast as ic tq." Hendrik Hertzberg
-Senior Editor, The New Yorker Magazine (in shorthand: --hhhh, sr edr, tnyer mag)
Read what Jerry Eidem, vice-president/shareware reviewer for the MacChamp User Group, Burlington, Vermont wrote about TypeIt4Me in his review.
"[TypeIt4Me is] a long running, Mac friendly, well-supported utility. Still the best -- Quickeys and Oneclick and the others may do other things, but they just don't do text replacement as well and easily." well-loved, famous British comedian
"TypeIt4Me (by Riccardo Ettore) is the most intuitive of the expansion utilities." Contributing Editor and Columnist, MacCentral
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