Week of Leopard: TextExpander 2.0 Giveaway
October 26th, 2007 by EDIT-XTREEM
As we count down the hours till Apple officially releases Mac OS Leopard 10.5, there will be many giveaways and contests. This will last for the first week of leopard being out. From this Friday, October 26th at 6 PM EST till next Friday, we will host the “Week of Leopard”.
This giveaway will be for 3 licenses of TextExpander 2.0, an app for saving tons of keystrokes by using abbreaviations. We did a review of the older version a while back, and it scored 4.5/5. To enter, post a comment telling us about our favorite new feature of leopard, and you have over 300 to choose from. The more exciting, the better. Tell us what you plan to use this for, how it will effect your workflow, or anything else interesting about this feature. The three winners will receive one license of TextExpander each.
Make sure to include your valid email address in the email address field of the comments.
Rules:
1 entry per person
iAppblog has the right to disqualify anyone, for any reason
We can change the rules at any time, before, after or during the contest
We can change the prize at any time, before, after or during the contest
If you agree to all these rules, start thinking up your favorite feature, commenting will being Friday at 6PM EST.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Well…. There are quite a lot of features…. but I really like quick look, now I don’t need to open things like quicktime just to view some quick video I downloaded.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I’m afraid it’s very difficult to point to one feature. There are a number of them that seem very exciting and are the more glamrous features but the one that stands out for me isn’t glamorous but means alot is the autofs. I use a Windows Server 2003 box to save various files and access my itunes music and podcasts. It gets annoying and frustrating when the share seems to go down and takes the Finder with it. Autofs seems to look like it’s going to handle this much, much better.
October 27th, 2007 at 7:57 am
It would have to be TIme Machine. I can’t even count how many times I’ve deleted something accidentally, and remember that I didn’t have a backup. This will save me so much time and frustration. Quick Look is really cool too, and the way that it integrates with iChat blows me away. Pretty much everything in Leopard amazes me, but those two would have to be 2 of my favourites.
October 28th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Choosing one feature is pretty hard, but I think iChat’s screen sharing is very high up there. Makes it very nice to do remote work. I think if we get Leopard at work, I’ll be using screen sharing alot. Nothing needed for set up, just launch iChat, and click screen sharing. I can do anything they can do on their computer, and control mine at the same time. Next time something goes wrong at work, I can just login from home, instead of driving to work. Or have the software dev login to check stuff as needed, that way I can get immediate input from him.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I think my favorite feature is in Automator … the whole ‘Watch me do’ thing. It’ll make it so much easier to pass though popup notification windows, or do things that don’t have an action .. or work with an app that isn’t Automator compatible
October 30th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
My favorite feature is definitely Spaces, it saves me so much time! It literally shaves 5 minutes off my homework every day because instead of fishing through windows to find preview, safari, word, or some other app required for my homework, I can just press command-1 or something!
November 9th, 2007 at 1:50 am
I love Textexpander, I use version 1 all the time to turn my adn->and and teh->the. I’m entering all your competitions, but if this is the only one I get, I’d be happy.
I wrote about my favourite part of the new finder, the fast search. My favourite part of the whole operating system? It’s gotta be Time Machine. It’s strange, I never thought I’d be calling a backup program my favourite part of anything. Backup is for dorks. I’ve always lived by the seat of my pants and I’ve never owned, much less run, a backup program. I have a years worth of photos and gigs of mp3s sitting on my hard drive with no safety net. My drive fails and they’re gone. Forever. That’s why Time Machine is so great, it lets me set a switch and just does it’s thing, without me ever having to think about it again. Unless it’s the time I really need it.
I’ve once been in the situation where I thought I’d lost 3 years of digital photos, due to a HD failure. Happily, using Disk Warrior, I got it all back. Did I start backing up after that? No. Time Machine stops me from being a moron and just makes a backup automatically. It’s brilliant, not because of what it does, but how it does it. I’ve realised why it has that funky space interface. When you think you’ve lost everything and remember that there’s a backup, you’re going to think it’s a godsend.
November 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
My favorite feature of Leopard is definatly Time Machine. Not only because it saved my butt a couple times already, but it just works. You plug in a drive and your set. Also, it saves 30$ from buying an app like SuperDuper or sometihng that isn’t near as easy. With Time machine, I don’t have to spend time worrying about backup, which is how making sure im safe should be. (Second place is Quick Look)
I would use TextExpander all the time. I constintly find myself typing the same stupid stuff over and over, and this app could save me tons of time! It is probably one of the greatest ideas of all time!
November 16th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Definitely the translucent grey menu bar with black apple, and also the unified GUI
Both of them are the most important feature for me, since I staring them everyday and kinda affect my mood
TextExpander, a really nice app