Brief Hands-On Report--Cool Mac Software: TypeIt4Me 3.2 is Out

Ettore Software released version 3.2 of TypeIt4Me, the original text expander software for Mac OS since 1989.

Apart from fixing a number of bugs and sporting a re-designed Settings tab, this release adds a number of new features, including:

• sorting by date created, modified and last used;
  
• sorting by number of times an abbreviation has been expanded;
  
• automatic replacement of " (double quotes) with “smart” quotes;
  
• prevention of unwanted DOuble CAps;
  
• easier creation of Applescript clippings;
  
• usage statistics showing you the number of keystrokes saved and your
  personal average WPM (Words Per Minute) typing speed.

Meanwhile, Ettore Software's founder & CTO/CEO, Riccardo Ettore, a veteran Mac developer since 1984, is already working on a new release with a major new feature to be revealed at next January's Macworld show in San Francisco.

We have used TypeIt4Me almost since its inception in 1989 and continue to use it daily. So, we downloaded and installed version 3.2 over v3.1.1 already installed. We ran into one small glitch, i.e. the installer wanted to create a new abbreviations file which would have over-written our existing abbreviations file, probably losing all of our abbreviations. We directed the new abbreviations file to our desktop, trashed it and within TypeIt4Me's preferences pointed to our old abbreviations file. That worked fine. [Bill Fox]