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Giveaway: Direct Access Text Replacement

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I’ve always been a huge supporter of text expanding applications because I’m a shortcut junky. When it comes to saving time, there is no better way to do it than to transform a few characters into entire sentences. Direct Access doubles as both a text replacement utility and application launcher, and its recently redesigned interface makes managing all of your “macros” a breeze.

One of the things that I really like about Direct Access is how easy they’ve made it to share your commands with multiple PC’s on the same network. It’s as easy as placing a command file in a shared network directory. By doing that you’ll be able to use your commands on multiple computers that are on the same network.

Direct Access provides complete rich text support for your snippets as well. You can format the text using different kinds of fonts and colors, or even have images inserted. This is especially handy when creating spiffy email signatures.

Here are some great ideas where Direct Access would come in handy.

  • Create pre-compiled emails, and even format them using rich text
  • Automatically fill-in forms
  • Keep your commonly used text string and phrases handy and insert them in any application by typing a few keystrokes
  • Directly search your favorite websites like Google, YouTube, Ebay, Amazon or a web dictionary
  • Automate and control other applications sending special characters and key combinations
  • Quickly open applications and folders without browsing

Direct Access Homepage

–The Giveaway–

We have 10 licenses to Direct Access (valued at $49.95 each) to giveaway today! All you have to do is drop a comment below providing both your name and email address in the appropriate fields. We obviously need your email address for contacting you in the event that you should win. Believe it or not we’ve actually had winners in previous giveaways get randomly selected, but since they didn’t provide an email address we had to pick someone else.

Just as with all of our giveaways we will be using a random number generator to determine the winners. For this round here is how we’re going to give out the licenses:

  • 1 winner will be picked from comment numbers 1 through 5
  • 9 winners will be picked from comment numbers 1 through however many comments there are.

Entries for the giveaway will be accepted up until December 11th at 7:00PM Central Time.

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  1. tinyburpDecember 9, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Looks cool,count me in :P

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  6. LewisDecember 9, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    Ohh sounds useful. I’m in.

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  8. WesDecember 9, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Yes please, sounds very useful indeed

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  11. barney_cnbDecember 9, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Currently using ShortKeys, but this is quite a bit more powerful.

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  13. K-IntheHouseDecember 9, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    Looks like a powerful tool.. I haven’t used anything like it but I am all for anything that makes me productive and concentrate on things to get done! Good luck everyone! :-)

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  16. GymRatChrisDecember 9, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    Count me in!

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  18. GlennDecember 9, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    Another great application. Let’s give this a whirl!

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  20. JandiDecember 9, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    Exciting giveaways!

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  22. CarlDecember 9, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    I would love this new version!

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  23. NicholasDecember 9, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Looks like a very fancy version of Autohotkey or similar.
    Nice giveaways!

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  24. NickDecember 9, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Could me in, would love to have a license for this fine software!

    technick at geeeemail dot com

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  27. apex2000December 9, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    I’d love to try this! Thanks.

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  28. RRSDecember 9, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    I’ll roll the dice.

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  34. marekDecember 9, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    Oh my. As a translator, I would love this one!
    Fantastic giveaways, Cybernet, thanks!

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  35. amdouDecember 9, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    wow i always loved text auto replacement in trillian but this will not limit me to just IM, this is cool… i want one :D .
    Never knew such thing exist. Thanks Ryan

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  36. tuxDecember 9, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    Would love a copy. It’s FREE!!!

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  37. bloogleDecember 9, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    What are the chances you can continue the birthday giveaway promotion after your birthday? Thanks!

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  38. MilesDecember 9, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Looks like a winner!

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  39. Navjot SinghDecember 9, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    Count me in this one.

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  40. UltanDecember 9, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    I have tried a lot of these programs and this looks to be very good. Hope I win.

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  41. ChrisDecember 10, 2008 at 12:21 am

    looks awesome I’d love to have a shot at it.

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  42. iqbal1975December 10, 2008 at 2:48 am

    Count me in too :)

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  43. CurtDecember 10, 2008 at 3:58 am

    Wow, that is a valuable giveaway ;-)
    I would really like to win this one!

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  44. JovinDecember 10, 2008 at 5:18 am

    Exciting giveaways!I’m in.

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  45. SamGoodyDecember 10, 2008 at 6:21 am

    in!
    Ryan, is this in your autostart? (My test on how good software really sis.)

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  46. NessaDecember 10, 2008 at 7:47 am

    Sounds like a really useful piece of software. Count me in for one.:)

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  48. gman414December 10, 2008 at 8:55 am

    useful tool. would like a copy. thanks

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  50. NetFlexxDecember 10, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Thanks, please put me in…

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  51. NikoDecember 10, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    Cool! I’m in for this too

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  52. stavarottiDecember 10, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Count me in :-)

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  53. Mike SDecember 10, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    This is a great program that I use all the time but I’d love to to have the new version!

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  54. gigDecember 11, 2008 at 10:07 am

    Looks like cool apps.

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  55. lelandAll-StarDecember 11, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Looks like a useful app. I have used similar things on the Palm before but not on the Windows desktop. Seems like a great idea though. Count me in. Leland Whitlock and lgwhitlock at gmail dot com. Thanks.

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  58. BBDecember 12, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    I consider it useful

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  59. MilesDecember 13, 2008 at 8:38 am

    I’m one of your birthday winners!!! Thank you very much, Ryan and Andrea. I can’t wait to get my hands on this neat program putting it to use saving multitudes of keystrokes. For instance in my small coffee business in emails I frequently type “Premium Blend, Continental Roast.” This will be accomplished with pcn, the same as in WordPerfect.

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  60. KorrekDecember 16, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Seems to be a rip off this Freeware tool:
    [cybernetnews.com]

    Here is an interesting video:
    [youtube.com]

    Korrek

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  61. RyanAuthorDecember 16, 2008 at 8:10 pm
    Korrek wrote:
    Seems to be a rip off this Freeware tool:
    [cybernetnews.com]

    That’s only freeware for non-commercial use though. Otherwise it costs just as much.

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  62. Tony NicholasJanuary 7, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    I won’t win…but!

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