App Update – WideEmail Goes Twitter

When I reviewed WideMail a few months back I wrote-

Among the most important time-saving utilities on my Mac, is a little application called TextExpander (TE). At its most basic, TE is about text macros, little shortcuts that let me type one thing into the keyboard and have the computer type a very different, and usually loner or more complex thing, on the screen.

For example, if I type my initials but double up on the first letter, TE inputs my email address into the text I am writing. If I type the initials of this website but double up on the "w", TE types the site’s url. It is a HUGE timesaver!

So having it on my Mac has made my life a lot easier. What about my iPhone, you ask? 

Well, WideMail was just updated to version 1.2 and a simple, but useful, version of this same functionality is part of it.

I updated my copy of the application, set up a number of these shortcuts, and started using it. How is it?

Apple NEEDS to make this part of the Mail app’s functionality! That is how good this is.

Well, good just got better with…

TWITTER SUPPORT!

That’s right, you can now use Wide Email to post new tweets to your Twitter account through Twitterrific. Writing tweets is faster and easier using the landscape keyboard, which Twitterrific doesn’t provide. You can also use all the typing shortcuts you’ve created! (You must download and install Twitterrific on your iPhone or iPod touch for this to work. The basic version is free in the App Store.)

Oh, and the update also includes other minor enhancements and bug fixes.

Twitterific and WideEmail… nice.

You can get WideEmail HERE.