NEW Ergonis just released Typinator 5, their text expansion app. The major new feature is undoubtedly scripting support, which enables users to create generic and versatile text snippets. Using a simple inclusion mechanism based on files in an “Include” folder, text expansions can execute external scripts and include their results in the expansion. But that’s not all.

Apparent’s Doxie Go document scanner software is now fully OCR capable. I was skeptical of the results, but Apparent once again surprised me.

When sending a batch of draft messages from Apple Mail running on Lion, the app behaves in weird ways. Ways that you can only see as flawed or buggy.

I can’t say Safari crashed a lot on my machine, but I definitely belonged to the group of people who experienced problems with hangs, and endless waiting for Safari to “get it” and allow me to view a page. Apple finally fixed the trouble with Safari through an update. Activity Monitor revealed what they did.

Typinator 4.5 and KeyCue 6 have two things in common: they’re both “can’t do without” utilities once you’re used to having them at your fingertips, and they both support ‘sets’.

SIRI is Apple’s speech recognition technology. SIRI has an interesting background and history. The technology used in the product has been developed by Nuance who develop Dragon Dictate. And Nuance acquired its most valuable knowledge of linguistic speech recognition in the late 90s, with the acquisition of L&H, the Belgian firm that went bankrupt amidst stories of fraud.

FontExplorer X Pro 3 has many new features that belong in the “useful” department. In many respects, FontExplorer X Pro 3 is a fantastic tool for printers and font enthusiasts, with a Character Toolbox that calculates ink coverage, and a fantastic font book feature. It’s a bit less powerful for web font management.

For those who design and develop their web sites and scripts using a text editor, there’s great news: BBEdit has reached its tenth version, and that is reason enough to celebrate. Version 10 gets a facelift, some much needed new features such as package support, and some less needed novelties like being able to edit text files inside a compressed zip file without first decompressing.

I tried almost every Twitter client and kept going back to Twitter in a browser. Until I tried Twitterific 4.4 yesterday. I’d tried Twitterific before, when version 2 came out. Twitterific 4.4 is the best way to tweet and follow your social interaction with fellow tweeters in my opinion.

A new version of Parallels has been released. The new version runs on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and incorporates typical Lion features, but it’s also faster and more efficient under the hood.