Hi Louis,
List price is $34.95 for the Mac (computer) version, but I bought an
earlier version on sale:
http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/
You can search for previous mentions to this app in the archives, in
the context of HTML coding and other items. You can also use it to
correct your spelling of technical words. Note that the iPhone
version only expands in apps that support TextExpander, but there are
quite a few that do, since they released the SDK for free use.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 16, 2010, at 09:41, louie wrote:
Ester,
How much does this app cost?
On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi John (and Jonathan),
This may be overkill for your needs, but this kind of customization
is easy to do with a software application called TextExpander from
SmileOnMyMac. TextExpander allows you to define your own custom
snippets that get expanded, optionally with the format and
placement you want. For example, since the default samples already
include a snippet definition, "ddate" (date with an extra leading
"d") that would insert the current date in the format: November 16,
2010, and a "ttime" (time with an extra leading "t") that inserts
time as 2:41 PM, I decided to create a new snippet with assigned
name "dtstamp" (for date and time stamp), that has exactly the
format you specified (leading day of week, and time using a 24 hour
clock). It took me less than a minute with the TextExpander
Preferences pane (on my older version of this software) to create
the snippet definition by going to the menu button beyond the
content text area for snippets and selecting the formats I wanted
under the date and time options. You even have date and time math
options -- so if you're writing somebody to give their warranty
period and want to automatically insert the expiration date for a
fixed number of months or years from now, you can define a snippet
that will include that calculation.
I use the TextExpander Touch app more on my iPod Touch, especially
before Bluetooth keyboards were supported, and extensive typing on
the virtual keyboard was more of an issue. While you don't need to
have TextExpander on your computer to use it on your iPhone or iPod
Touch, if you do have the Mac version of TextExpander (with its
expanded capabilities), you can sync its definitions to the iPhone
or iPod Touch.
I've just checked that my snippet definition for "dtstamp" works on
the iPod Touch:
%A, %B %e, %Y, %1H:%M
The TextExpander definitions will work in any app -- so if I wanted
to type this in Pages, or mail, I could have the formatted date/
time stamp show up each time I typed the string.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 15, 2010, John Sanfilippo wrote:
Jon,
Thanks for replying.
I'd want a date/time stamp like this:
Monday, November 15, 2010, 14:41
Note the 24 hour clock.
I looked at date and time and text formats.
js
On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
Well, I don't believe there is a built in function for that, but I
believe a one could quickly set up an automation, and then enable it
as a text function to work in all standard text input fields. Would
you want the standard Ddate as specified in the
Internationalization,
or a special format. It is quite amazing all the diffferent styles
of dates that are available in the International section of system
preferences.
Jon
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