244 - [Tr] Indispensible iPad Apps - 01 [Trailer]

[Trailer for Extra! Members Only Show] Time to start thinking about what Apps to put on to the iPad!

This is the first in an occasional series of screencasts where I select my absolutely indispensable apps for the new iPad. No iPad? Well not to worry as these will all work just as well on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

As well as being a great device for consuming media, I think the iPad will be used as more and more as a basic computer where people don't need a full blown laptop and the iPhone is just too small. Email is a given, but we'll see more and more business type applications being developed for the iPad. Following on from last weeks show, if you're serious about productivity, TextExpander is a no brainer, enabling you to speed up text entry significantly with auto expanding snippets, invoked by just a few simple keyboard shortcuts.

If only TextExpander was available on the iPad? Well it is, in the form of TextExpander Touch!

TextExpander Touch has been available for the iPhone and iPod Touch for a while. Although not identical to the Mac version, TextExpander Touch delivers the ability to create snippets and abbreviations in two modes. The first is via its compose window where you can draft notes or emails and then send directly to your Mail application or to any third party app via the clipboard. The second mode is just like TextExpander for the Mac. All it needs is for the third party app to include TextExpander Touch support and you can access your snippets from within the application. The show shows you how to use both modes effectively along with taking a look at the built in TextExpander Touch support in both Tweetie 2 and SimpleNote.

This week's show also demonstrates how to share your snippet groups both ways between your Mac and your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

In detail, this week's show covers:

TextExpander Touch Overview
Snippet Groups
Using the Compose Window
Creating a New eMail
Replying to eMails
TextExpander Touch Integration
Setting up Integration in TextExpander Touch
Tweetie2 Configuration
Other Integrated Applications
Integration with SimpleNote
Sharing Snippet Groups
Setting up Preferences on the Mac
Getting Snippet Groups from the Mac
Sending Snippet Groups to the Mac

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