News

It’s been a long time coming, but after months of hard graft and some invaluable assistance from our loyal clan of beta testers, we’re pleased as punch to announce that TypeIt4Me 5.0 is now available for download. This is a major update with a totally rewritten engine that brings full 64-bit Snow Leopard compatibility, speedier text expansion and a redesigned user interface with a fully resizable clippings editing window. TypeIt4Me is no longer presented as a System Preferences item – it now stands on its own two feet as a regular application that can optionally display its icon in the dock as well as its traditional menubar position.

For a complete list of features, see:

http://www.ettoresoftware.com/products/typeit4me/features/

Available as a 30-day-trial, TypeIt4Me 5.0 still costs just $27 (or $14 for students/ teachers). As always, you’ll only pay $9 to upgrade from a previous registered version. Additionally, users who bought the previous version on or after 1 January 2009 will receive a free upgrade code via email in the next few days. Please note that TypeIt4Me 5.0 is only compatible with Macs running OS X 10.5 Leopard and later.

Anyway, that’s enough blathering from us. Check it out now. We hope you’ll like it.

Fixes:

• Restores clipboard after expansion

• No longer accepts older registration codes only to reject them later

• Triggering expansion with TAB no longer leaves first letter of abb behind

• Restores contents of clipboard no matter what other modifiers are pressed on cmd-v

New features:

• Handles older as well as latest SpellCatcher XML export

• Handles CR (return) in a similar way to TAB when expanding in spreadsheets

Check it out, it works (albeit in 32 bit mode) with Snow Leopard. Also sports a new icon, hope you’ll like it.

Good news, everyone! Our new website has launched. It’s received a complete overhaul – a quantum leap forward to version 2.0 (version 1.0 was in need of more than just a spit and polish). We’re well aware there’s still plenty more to be done, of course, so we won’t be resting on our laurels. Do keep stopping by from time to time: we’ll be adding further sections in the coming weeks and months to flesh out the existing customer support content. We will most likely also be doing the odd special promotion, with limited time offer cut-price software bundles and such.

…What, did you think we were going to send you on a suicidal mission to deliver post-it notes to the Galaxy of Flesh-eating Space Squids or something? =D

We’re pleased to announce that version 4.2 of TypeIt4Me is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. So if you were worried that upgrading to Apple’s latest OS might bring problems with your favourite text expansion software, worry no more. This version also fixes a few minor glitches, removes a deprecated API and adds Sort by Label functionality. You can download TypeIt4Me 4.2 here.

We’ve been very busy getting a new website together and it’s almost ready. It’s still very much a work in progress, but we hope you’ll agree it’s an improvement on the previous incarnation. We’re working hard to bring you screencasts, tutorials and a whole lot of new goodies. Please bear with us, we’re a very small team. So small, in fact, that if we climbed into a petri dish you’d probably still need some sort of scanning electron microscope to see us.

TapIt4Me 1.1.1 has been tested and is fully compatible with the new iPhone 3.0 software release. It’s in the app store now as a free update. Apologies for those of you who had trouble with the previous version.

One of London’s most famous attractions, Big Ben, is celebrating 150 years of keeping time. To celebrate this milestone birthday, our Big Ben iPhone app will be available free of charge in the iTunes App Store for the next 48 hours. Get it while you can!

Get the time of day in style and add some Great British flair to your iPhone, with our salute to the iconic clock tower that watches over the UK houses of parliament. Today we release Big Ben 1.0 for iPhone – available in the iTunes App Store for the modest price of 59 pennies.

Those of you who’ve been following us since the 1980s may have noticed that this is a nostalgic nod and wink to one of Ettore Software’s earliest creations for the Mac software community. This new and improved portable version is way better, though. It’s in colour, for starters.

TapIt4Me – the little brother of TypeIt4Me – is now available in the iTunes App Store, priced at £2.99. TapIt4Me enables you to type much more quickly and efficiently when composing notes, emails and tweets, using the same abbreviations and snippets created in TypeIt4Me or TextExpander. Introduced at the Macworld Conference & Expo earlier this month, TapIt4Me was awarded Best of Show by Macsimum News and MacTech. Save wear and tear on your index finger – check it out.