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When Lee is at a client's office and anyone watches him type on his Mac, there is one feature that is guaranteed to be greeted with "Wow! How did you do that?" and that's text expansion. Today's video covers the application Lee uses for this: Typinator from Ergonis software. Using this application, you can key in a few characters that expand into something much larger. This can be something small, like a URL, or perhaps an email template or blocks of text. You can print the current date and time, calculate future or historic dates, as well as use variables to make calculations.

In this video, Lee gives you a walk-through of how to make the most of Typinator and wow your friends, family and colleagues.

Typinator 9 requires macOS 10.15 or newer.

A license costs 29.99 USD for a single user with up to two computers. All minor updates within the current major version are included.

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Using keyboard shortcuts is something many Mac users do on a daily basis, to speed up their workflow. But remembering them can be challenging, especially the ones that are not used often. This is where KeyCue can come to the rescue.

PopChar X and Typinator are also part of this productivity bundle from Ergonis Software. Organizing and inserting special characters easily, and expanding abbreviations to longer bits of text is made a lot more convenient by using these long-standing apps, which offer many advanced features.

In this week's show, Lee Garrett walks you through the basics of this handy and powerful trio. He shows you how to install and set them up on your system, and gives you some examples of their use in your daily workflow.