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After nearly one year in beta testing, Riccardo Ettore has released the Version 1.0 final release of TypeIt4Me. Originally published in 1989, TypeIt4Me won the1994 MacUser Shareware Award for Best Publishing Tool, and it is one third-party Mac utility that I cna't get along without. If you're not familiar with it, TypeIt4 Me is a keystroke activated text macro utility that allows you to define a set of abbreviations for specified words or phrases that they represent by copying them to the Clipboard and then choosing "Add An Entry" from the TypeIt4Me menu on the Finder's menu bar (you can also create entries directly in the "Edit Entry" dialog box). When you type the abbreviation (or select it from TypeIt4Me's pop up menu) and hit the assigned trigger keystroke(s), the Mac expands the entry as you continue typing. For example, I frequently type my name, so with TypeIt4Me I have assigned it the abbreviation "ch." Now when I type "ch" and stroke the spacebar, the two letters change to "Charles W. Moore." You can also use TypeIt4Me to apply long passages of boilerplate text. For instance the Moore's MailBag signature/disclaimer at the bottom of this column is a TypeIt4Me macro. I just type "mm," hit the spacebar, and the Mac does all the heavy lifting. If this sounds a lot like Word's AutoCorrect feature, it's because it does very much the same thing. However, I don't use Word, and TypeIt4Me's big advantage is that it works in every application ot text field. And TypeIt4Me is not a copycat -- it was around years before Microsoft added AutoCorrect to Word, copying the good ideas of others in typical Microsoft "innovation" style.
Stuff you can use TypeIt4Me for:
Another big advantage of TypeIt4Me for me is that I find it much easier to remember macro abbreviations that I make up myself, than I do memorizing prescriptive keyboard combinations. TypeIt4Me X allows you to use the same abbreviations data files created with the Classic version of TypeIt4Me. In fact, the Classic and X versions can simultaneously use one and the same abbreviations file. TypeIt4Me X is distributed in the form of a .dmg disk file which mounts like a CD or hard disk volume when double-clicked. To install, double click the TypeIt4Me Installer which will place an object called TypeIt4Me.component inside ~/Library/Components (that's the Components directory, inside Library, inside your Home directory). When the installer has finished its job, it will log you out. When you log back in, you should see the Input Menu just right of the Help menu. Pull it down and you should see TypeIt4Me listed there, with an icon intended to look like the A key on a keyboard: select it and a little icon of the juggling man will appear to the right of the A icon, giving you access to the TypeIt4Me menu options. I had hoped that this would be cured in the final release, but it wasn't, the OS X version "misfires" roughly 25% - 35% of the time. This could be an OS X issue as well, as I've noticed that in general, OS X keyboard response tends to be ragged compared with the Classic OS. TypeIt4Me never misfires in Classic. Those gripes aside, I'm delighted that TypeIt4Me X is available, and it's still a great little helper app. -- just not quite as great as its Classic OS antecedent.
New in Version 1.0:
TypeIt4Me X Version 1.0 requires OS X 10.2 Jaguar or higher. TypeIt4Me X costs $27, 25Euro or £16. Upgrades from the Classic version are $9, 10Euro or £6. Users who registered after June 1, 2001 can upgrade for free. Mac OS Classic (9.2.2 or older) can still download TypeIt4Me 4.8.2.
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Re: Bill Chin: "Mr. Totusek can complain about the demise of Apple" Regarding problems with MSN Messenger From Peter J. Pedersen Dear Charles, The one simple solution to problems with Messenger and any other IM program is provided courtesy of OSX: Proteus. This multi-IM program is fast, stable, well laid out, compact, and supplants all the other IMs. It is what iChat SHOULD have been. Perhaps not the killer app, but certainly the single program to make me feel dissatisfied with OS9 computing (it's hell there, having your friends and contacts spread over ICQ, Yahoo! and Messenger) and explore ways in which to alleviate all the X deficiencies... If you liked Chimera, you need to try this. One thing it lacks, is VoIP and WebCam support - but so does iChat. And things keep getting better.... :-) Regards, Peter J. Pedersen
Thanks Peter;
Sounds good. I've downloaded it, and will check it out soon.
Charles Re: Bill Chin: "Mr. Totusek can complain about the demise of Apple" From Martin A. Totusek
RE:
1) If Mr. Bill Chin paid attention, he would see that the threat of "the demise of Apple", IF OS X is the only thing out there and a huge number of things don't function right (or at all) under OS X, is in fact a large part of the motivation behind the Mac users' wanting booting support for the Mac OS, along with also having OS X. Note I have never said that APPLE should not develop OS X. Like you, I very clearly understand that multiple OS booting compatibility, hardware compatibilty, and software compatibilty is NO game, but is and has been the normal practice in on most computing Platforms. My 23-year-old son (a Mac, Linux, UNIX, OS X, and Windows computer technician) likes OS X, but admits that many mission critical softwares where he works (U of W) cannot function at all under any versions of OS X (including under the "Classic" Emulation Environment), and no updates are currently planned for OS X compatibility. He strongly wishes it was otherwise, and hopes that it will change in a few years. 2) APPLE has not released an official supported "OS X Lite". Many programs and utilities (including those that repair OS X related data and file damage) must be run under Mac OS, not OS X; My son tried MicroMat Drive 10 (I bought it for him for his birthday), and it lost, damaged and corrupted files and directories under OS X every time he tried to use it (the bootable Mac OS TechTool Pro 3.0.8 CD-ROM on the other hand can even repair Drive 10 damage). If Mr. Bill Chin paid attention, he would see that I actually stated that "OS X Lite" must be possible, because a major Mac writer stated that it wasn't <http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/11/20021122123114.shtml#67>. On another note, as Micromat customer I'm also aware of the problems Micromat has had with getting needed developer data from APPLE for OS 9 and OS X (not unlike the problems Aladdin Systems has also had with APPLE regarding needed developer data for Stuffit and/or ShrinkWrap, which is why they have to keep trying to hack Stuffit, Magic Menu, etc., simply to get it to work under OS X). I'm not going to list everything all over again and again in fine detail, but will repeat: We need both Mac OS and OS X for the foreseeable future". This is NOT unusual, as DOS and many builds of MS Windows (from 3.11 for Workgroups on up) are still here and much in use on "The Other Side" throughout the World today, and even the crappy "settlement" under the Bush Adminstration requires Microsoft to support older versions of Windows' builds dating from the beginning of the 1990s on up to the present. 3) Note that if MS had tried to put out Windows NT instead of the DOS-based Windows 95, 98, ME as the next OS after Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, that they would have been in the same boat or worse. Instead they built on their existing DOS code base to add some forms of protected memory and a limited form of pre-emptive multi-tasking. They later split OS development into both a DOS-based unit and NT-based unit. Even with the enormous MS monies, resources and predatory monopoly, "The Other Side" has not gotten rid of DOS booting on their hardware, and have only now removed most actual DOS from the Kernel-based XP (although there is a DOS emulation prompt, I'm told, but I have no desire to run "Big Brother" XP, even under my VirtualPC emulator program). -Martin Totusek See my comments oNovember this issue in New & Notable today. Charles
The OS X Odyssey archives may be accessed here: Note: Letters to Moore's Mailbag may or may not be published at the editor's discretion. Correspondents' email addresses will NOT be published unless the correspondent specifically requests publication. Letters may be edited for length and/or context. Opinions expressed in postings to Moore's MailBag are those of the respective correspondents and not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Editor and/or Applelinks management. If you would prefer that your message not appear in Moore's Mailbag, we would still like to hear from you. Just clearly mark your message "NOT FOR PUBLICATION," and it will not be published. CM
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