If you do FileMaker development, Camp Software has released a TextExpander snippet group that will save you LOTS of time and keystrokes. FMSnippets has over 250 snippets for FileMaker 9 and 10, including practically all functions used in the FileMaker calculation engine. Check out the examples at Camp Software’s website. The price of the snippet group is $9. According to Camp Software, one of their developers saved 95,962 keypresses in two months using these snippets. If we use TextExpander’s standard calculation of 400 characters per minute, that’s nearly 4 hours. At $2.25 per hour saved, FMSnippets is a real bargain!
Macworld Day 3: Celebrity Parade Continues
Sinbad, who is an enthusiastic and very knowledgeable TextExpander user! So cool. He was at the Your Mac Life Rocks Expo party tonight. No picture, unfortunately.
But I did get copies of the great photos of Greg and Philip with David Pogue and have posted them to our Macworld 2009 Flickr set. David Pogue is also a TextExpander user, and he came by the booth to ask the guys a few questions.
Macworld Day 2: More Mac Celebrities
Flickr set that I took. Hopefully I’ll be able to post a lot more soon — our friend and booth team member Sean Newman, who is also a photographer, has been taking lots of photos at the booth. Highlight of the day: David Pogue came to visit us!! Photos and more details to come.
Macworld Day 1: Celebrities R Us
a few photos on Flickr.
A couple exciting things to report: PDFpen is featured on the Modbook tablet Mac at the Axiotron booth. One of the team is at the Axiotron booth all day showing folks how cool it could be to edit PDFs on a tablet. Today, Axiotron unveiled their newest model, and their most famous member of their board of advisors, Steve Wozniak, demonstrated how to use it. At one point, Philip turned to me and said: “Look! He’s using PDFpen now.” How exciting to see our software being used by the co-founder of Apple Computers.
Later in the day we were visited by not one, not two, but three Mac celebrities. Tonya and Adam Engst of TidBITs and Take Control Books came by the booth to chat with Greg and me. And while they were there, Guy Kawasaki stopped to say hi, and ended up talking with us about TextExpander. He’s a fan.
Great day. More tomorrow. I need to get to sleep!
Philip demos PDFpen on the Modbook
Woz demos PDFpen on the Modbook!
Greg, Tonya Engst, Jean, Guy Kawasaki, Adam Engst
Macworld! Free Passes! Celebrity Demo!
It’s New Year’s Eve, which means we are working furiously to get ready for next week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. We’ll be at our booth, #407 in the South Hall of the Moscone Center, January 6 – 9, 2009.
(I have to start getting used to typing 2009…)
We’ll be showing off the latest version of PDFpen 4, as well as DiscLabel and TextExpander. Please do come by to see us and to check out the newest features of our software. (And we will have candy!)
If you don’t have an Exhibit Hall pass yet, we still have some to giveaway. Just use this link to register for the show. January 4, Sunday, is the last day to take advantage of these free passes. The number is limited, so don’t delay.
I am excited to announce that Don McAllister, the host and producer of ScreenCastsOnline, will be in the SmileOnMyMac booth on Thursday, January 8, from 2 pm to 3 pm, to talk about the Mac Switcher Bundle. The bundle is a great collection of software (TextExpander, 1Password and Witch) plus a special series of ScreenCastsOnline video tutorials aimed at helping new Mac users get the most out of their Macs.
Don will be doing short demos of the Mac Switcher Bundle software, as well as showing off ScreenCastsOnline. He’s definitely achieved Mac celebrity status with his best-of-class video tutorials and his frequent appearances on Mac Break Weekly, MacVoices, Mac Roundtable, and many others. You can hear Don on a special episode of MacVoices with me, 1Password developer Roustem Karimov and Witch developer Peter Maurer.
Don was also a faculty member on the Geek Cruise last month, and achieved celebrity status on the ship when the crew thought he was missing in Santorini. (It turns out their card readers were faulty–he was, in fact, aboard. He even has proof. You can hear the whole story on this episode of Mac Roundtable…)