Justin has helped readers get more out of their tools since 2009, writing tutorials, features, and reviews for a variety of publications.

August 5, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Text expansion apps are a great way to save time when you find yourself typing the same information repeatedly, ...

Back in 2010, I reviewed version 3 of Smile’s TextExpander. The company recently updated its venerable text-expansion utility to version 4 ($35; $15 for owners of older versions), and though the ...

TextExpander turns short text snippets into longer ones, saving you a great deal of time if you spend a lot of time in front of a keyboard. You define your own snippets, and the shortcuts you’ll use ...

A few weeks ago, while I was preparing my coverage of Apple’s Q2 2013 earnings call, I grew tired of my system to resize and rename images on OS X, so I rebuilt it from scratch using Automator, Name ...

Today Smile Software released TextExpander 4, the latest version of its typing shortcut app for OS X. The new version contains several new types of fill-in snippets, including support for multi-line ...