Geeky & Productive Way to Start 2012 F1 Season
Fri Mar 16 0:07:52 2012 EDT (-0400 GMT)Here’s my geeky and productive way to start off the 2012 Formula 1 season: Textexpander shortcuts for Formula 1 driver names.
I’ve blogged about Textexpander before: mattclare.ca/blog/2009/08/28/textexpander/ In short, with TextExpander installed on your Mac you can type short key-commands, like “ddate†which is automatically replaced with something like Thursday March 15, 2012 saving keystrokes and looking things up. I store handy E-Mail responses or marking responses in TextExpander shortcuts as well as things like HTML elements and other filler text.
There is also the compatible MS Windows option: PhraseExpress.
For the 2012 Formula 1 season I’ve taken the Formula 1 timing and scoring three letter short code abbreviations and turned them into a Textpander group. This should help me bang-out my tweets, blog postings, gripes and other comments about F1.
3 Letter | Driver | Abbreviation |
---|---|---|
ALO | Fernando Alonso | F1ALO |
BUT | Jenson Button | F1BUT |
DIR | Paul di Resta | F1DIR |
DLR | Pedro de la Rosa | F1 |
GLO | Timo Glock | F1GLO |
GRO | Romain Grosjean | F1GRO |
HAM | Lewis Hamilton | F1HAM |
HUL | Nico Hulkenberg | F1HUL |
KAR | Narain Karthikeyan | F1KAR |
KOB | Kamui Kobayashi | F1KOB |
KOV | Heikki Kovalainen | F1KOV |
MAL | Pastor Maldonado | F1MAL |
MAS | Felipe Massa | F1MAS |
MSC | Michael Schumacher | F1MSC |
PER | Sergio Perez | F1PER |
PET | Vitaly Petrov | F1PET |
PIC | Charles Pic | F1PIC |
RAI | Kimi Raikkonen | F1RAI |
RIC | Daniel Ricciardo | F1RIC |
ROS | Nico Rosberg | F1ROS |
SEN | Bruno Senna | F1SEN |
VER | Jean-Eric Vergne | F1VER |
VET | Sebastian Vettel | F1VET |
WEB | Mark Webber | F1WEB |
Here is the TextExpander Group for you to either download or subscribe to.
Signed with TextExpander……
Matt Clare
Educational Technology Support Specialist,
Centre for Pedagogical Innovation (formerly CTLET) www.brocku.ca/ctlet
Part-time Instructor,
Interactive Arts and Sciences