The solution to both of these problems is Typinator. This handy shareware app will give you auto-correct in any program. This is great if you have a program that does not have an auto-correct or just has a lousy one. Typinator provides thousands of corrections to misspelled words in English, French, and German and I found it to do a really good job fixing my mistakes. In addition to the built-in database, you can download the free TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary to fully expand your correction set.

Best of all though is that Typinator gives you the ability to insert text chunks into your work to save you the time you would have used rewriting it over and over again. Sure, you could use a Sticky, and copy/paste, but that gets really annoying when you have more than 1 piece of text (or an image) you need to use multiple times.

The look of the interface is pretty basic (check out the screen shot below) which is something I have grown to appreciate about the app. It definitely gets the job done. I found that after using Typinator for a short period, it became quite indispensable and I would have to say that if you work with text at any capacity you will likely find it pretty useful.

Typinator has a 15 day free trial and after that will cost EUR 19.99 for a license.

But wait! Christoph at Ergonis has graciously donated 3 full licenses to Typinator to the readers who can best answer these burning questions:

Q: What features would you like to see in future versions of Typinator?

Q: How could you use Typinator to improve your own work flow?

As usual the contest ends a week from today, which is January 12th at 12:00am EST. Winners will be announced shortly after that time. Good luck everyone!