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   TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 13 February 2017

   TidBITS Staff

   Alfred 3.3 -- Running with Crayons has issued [1]Alfred 3.3 with a new
   clipboard placeholder that enables you to grab items from Alfred's
   clipboard history, as you might want to do when creating a dynamic
   snippet that includes the last three items you copied or adding
   recently copied items as variables in your workflow. For more on this
   new feature, see this Alfred [2]blog post. The keyboard-driven launcher
   also provides more efficient pre-processing of snippet results when
   using snip keywords, adds new icons for workflow objects, improves
   support for 1Password vaults (including the capability to hide
   particular vaults from Alfred's results), and adds new system volume
   control to System Commands. (Free for basic functionality, £17 for
   [3]Powerpack, 2.6 MB, [4]release notes, 10.9+)

   [5]Read/post comments about Alfred 3.3.

   TextExpander 6.1.5 -- Smile has released [6]TextExpander 6.1.5, adding
   support for importing TextExpander 5 settings and backup files. The
   text-expansion utility also removes the Show Tab Bar entry from the
   View menu, adds a VoiceOver label for Touch Bar buttons on the 2016
   MacBook Pro, and resolves a bug where some script snippets could
   execute even if Run Script Snippets had been turned off. The update
   also adds support for synchronizing some preferences (including playing
   sound at expansion, run scripts snippets, default format and
   abbreviation mode, and update checking) with the newly released
   TextExpander for Windows (see this [7]blog entry from the TextExpander
   Web site for more information)

   TextExpander 6.1.5 is available via a monthly or annual subscription,
   and Smile continues to offer [8]TextExpander 5 as a standalone app for
   $44.95 ([9]TidBITS members receive a 20 percent discount only on the
   purchase of version 5). ($40 annual subscription, $20 upgrade
   subscription, free update from version 6, 6.4 MB, [10]release notes,
   10.10+)

   [11]Read/post comments about TextExpander 6.1.5.

References

   1. http://www.alfredapp.com/
   2. https://www.alfredapp.com/blog/releases/alfred-3-3-released-access-to-clipboard/
   3. http://www.alfredapp.com/powerpack/
   4. http://www.alfredapp.com/changelog
   5. http://tidbits.com/article/17045#comments
   6. https://textexpander.com/
   7. https://textexpander.com/entry/textexpander-now-expands-team-productivity-to-windows/
   8. https://textexpander.com/textexpander-standalone-apps/
   9. http://tidbits.com/member_benefits.html
  10. https://textexpander.com/help/desktop/releasenotes.html
  11. http://tidbits.com/article/17043#comments

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