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I’ve been using a LifeHacker home-brewed app called Texter to quickly replace text that I might find myself typing a lot. I’ve already made two bundles that I can see myself adding to regularly; Logins, and Me.

What you see in the picture above is my own Texter management window. It shows my Default bundle in the bundles list, plus my own custom bundles. The Me bundle contains any personal info about – you guessed it – ME. I’ve chosen to go with a somewhat universal programming classes format, so all I have to do is type in me.whatever and press enter or tab and the info comes up automatically. For instance, me.age{Enter} will quickly put 28 into whatever I’m typing into.

It’s actually quite an advanced little app in fact. I’ve found that I can store not only my username and passwords for web sites, but I can have it automatically scripted to log me into the site as I type in the trigger phrase. One example would be for this site. All I need to do is type ::log.ump into the username field of the login form and BOOM – it’s logging me in. It’s not the most secure place to store logins of course – although it’s better than risking your login identities with some online tools. It just leaves it open to somebody figuring out your Texter hotstrings on your actual computers. For me, I’m willing to take that chance since I know that no one else uses my computer.

So, after this brief initial playing around, I am certainly convinced of it’s usefulness. I should mention though, that I’ve noticed a bug that semi-crashes the app when I use the global disable hotkey. Another strange thing is I’ve seen it try to auto-type stuff I haven’t made hotstrings for, like the word “although” when I just type altho.

Texter is a free app by Adam Pash, made using AutoHotKey (my favorite!)

Texter via LifeHacker

This new spell-check app seems like it might do the trick for anybody needing a basic spell-check on their system.  It’s not something I’d need, but it’s probably handy for the average joe.  It’s called TinySpell. 

It’s 10:45 PM and I’m ready for bed.  Since my fast begins at midnight, this is it.  I’m gonna fold up this laptop now and keep it shut down until my computer fast is over with.  I don’t know how long it will be.  I just know that barring some kind of emergency, this thing won’t be powering on until I’m done.

So here goes nothing.  (Nighty night compy.)

I don’t say this to toot my own horn or anything.  In fact, there’s a good reason I’m posting this.  I’m not going to be around for a while online.  I’m fasting computers too.  I’m way too addicted and need to learn to slow down and not get so consumed by it.  Besides I really need to start being more consumed by God’s holy fire now anyway.

So here’s the whole story about it on my other site: GetDistracted.net

Bye bye for now..

I am waiting for this friggen slow mp3 player to get music copied to it.  So I guess I might as well blog.

I’ve been getting an excessive amount of spambot signups on my blogs.  It’s annoying as hell because wordpress sends me an email each time that happens.  How stupid.  You’d think I could disable that, but I looked.  So either I have to find a plugin to do it, or hack it myself, or upgrade to a version that has that option.  I don’t wanna upgrade because I’ll lose stuff, and all my precious plugins will no longer work.  Stupid.  Stupid.  Stupid.

So I guess I’ll be working my butt off for the next few weeks.  I’ve got a ton of work.  I am already hours later than I expected to be for my first day at one new job.  At least it’s not that big a deal.

Oh well.  I’ll grump through it.  Hahahaha!