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Smart Type Assistant - make your keyboard as smart as you!
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Do you type the same phrases over and over again? Often mistype? Smart Type Assistant is here to help! It's an easy-to-use, time-saving utility for all Windows operating systems.

Initially, Smart Type Assistant's basic purpose was to add some useful Microsoft® Word™ features to every application you use. Now it has evolved into a complex typing automation tool, intended to make your work faster and safer.

Smart Type Assistant offers you Smart Diary – a useful feature for automatically saving what you type. It will help you to recall what you wrote some time ago, and to restore important documents after Windows crashes. It automatically stores everything you type in the strongly encrypted file, which can be protected with a password. It can help you to organize your archives.

Other features are Clipboard Spellcheck, Autoreplace (expanding short keywords into full phrases), Autocorrect (common typing errors, two initial capitals, and accidental usage of the Caps Lock key), various operations with the selected text, pasting large text pieces with a hotkey, Clipboard History and much more.

Note: there are many programs with functionalities similar to Autocorrect, for example MS Office. The advantage of Smart Type Assistant is that it gives you the uniform functionality system-wide, so all your applications instantly become autocorrect-enabled, and benefit from other STA features.

Try it in Internet Explorer, ICQ, IRC, your e-mail program - every text-processing program you use!

System Requirements:

Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP, Pentium 133, 16 MB RAM

Publisher:

Blazingtools Software

Homepage:

http://www.blazingtools.com/sta.html

File Size:

595 KB

Price:

$19.95

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#105

I have had the STA in several years, and I have paid for it. But I have to get a new computer, and STA does not get in order in the new computer.
Sorry for my bad english
Kindes Regards
Bruno Westerlind.

Reply   |   Comment by Bruno Westerlind  –  12 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#104

Странно, а я совсем новичок в этом деле, пока что голова пухнет от всего нового, но самое главное есть о чем писать, да и есть к кому сходить за советом.

Reply   |   Comment by лена  –  14 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#103

I really liked this program but now it says my evalutaion period is over and wants me to register (and pay, of course.....). I did activate when I got it so what's happening ?

Reply   |   Comment by Fuzzmom  –  16 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#102

@ If, as you reckon, you've worked in IT for ten years you should know better than to talk rubbish about software you obviously know bugger all about.

Reply   |   Comment by Fab Scott  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#101

At first I didn't think much of the program, but after I installed it, I found it to be very useful. I especially like the auto replace feature which saves me some typing for work. Good program!

Reply   |   Comment by TNT  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#100

So Tyele thinks I'm a weak excuse for a human being, Face thinks I'm a jerk, some even say I'm a meanie, Wow that really hurts, I'm gonna cry and tell my Mom you children are calling me names, My Point to Veronica was if you are a Admin. Executive and would trust a program several reputable Antispyware company's don't trust with your data that might get sent god knows where you should probably pass on it. Sorry if my Humor was not well received, thats why I have worked in IT over 10 years and not comedy clubs but I spent most of my time fixing computers thats had untrustworthy, unreliable software put on it by someone who really had no business installing it the first place. First they install every little piece of software that sounds good then call me or our help desk when they get a warning about malware. I work on a network with over 13,000 computers and this would be a nightmare if even 5% of our users tried overriding our security software so I may have been a little harsh on Veronica but all this name calling just shows what a bunch of immature people like Tyele really are. BTW Tyele I'd like to have you say that to my face so I could show you another side of CyberGuy.

Reply   |   Comment by CyberGuy  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#99

i'm NOT sure. But after installing this soft, my windows explorer keeps crashing. i think that's bc of the shell extension that it creates, but. like, after uninstalling this, the problems still occurs. that drives me crazy. hey, any help?
AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: shell32.dll
ModVer: 6.0.2900.3051 Offset: 0004fa46

Reply   |   Comment by idunno  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#98

I got a virus attack while downloading itself.hence I could not install it.

Reply   |   Comment by rbsmoni  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#97

see also freeware letMeType.

Reply   |   Comment by reckoner  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#96

I need it for italian language. thanks

Reply   |   Comment by Giulioski  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#95

Yes, NIS said it was a virus, I just told it to ignore it this time and the app installed fine.

All Virus and Firewalls allow you make exceptions. If you know it is ok, like in this case, there is no reason to be afraid.

If you dont want to have your passwords on some file, then deactivate the feature that stores them.

It is a great app and probly will use it more often than any other program I have. it even installed in mojopak.

-pauloparra

Reply   |   Comment by  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#94

Note that the program :

1) Does not log keystrokes unless configured (by the user.)

2) Where do I configure it to email me the keystrokes? That would be VERY handy for some (many!) of my clients, who do not remember what they did before they crashed the machine.

Many of these features are old favorites I miss from using PCWrite years ago--in particularly the inverse UC/lc is nice. And I have been frustrated for several months that the most checkers don't seem to handle the 'THe' problem very well.

I like it ***** way to go guys, keep 'em coming!

Reply   |   Comment by Charles Barnard  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#93

Somebody mentioned "REGISTRATION"; this doesn't need to be registered w/ a key does it? [I didn't see anything about that after I activated + installed it.]

Reply   |   Comment by  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#92

Great software for my use, even as dutch writing! So in a scale from 0-10 I give the program 10 points.

Reply   |   Comment by Arjan  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#91

There is no keylogger in Smart Type Assistant. The logging is turned off by default and only you can turn it on - if you need it.

Reply   |   Comment by Alex  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#90

#28 spybot sux , try using Adaware SE it's free for personal use @ www.download.com.com

Reply   |   Comment by CBO  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#89

Looks good.

Since I've developed a severe tremor in my hands over the past 2 years (which is, they say, permanent,) I'll give it a try. Anyone who writes a lot uses the same words and phrases over and over again.

No anti-virus or anti-spyware program is going to just let you install a keylogger of any type without asking you if you are really sure you want to. That means that YOU have to decide if the program is a virus, or a utility--the anti-viral software only knows a particular program or virus if it has been 'taught' about it.

In this case, not having been taught, the software is relying on checking for access types which are relatively uncommon in programs and very common in malicious code. Except for remote communications software, keyloggers and keyboard macro software, keylogging is pretty rare in most software, and thus gets flagged as a 'possible.'

If you are using any of the above anti-virals your best bet is to deactiveate them and then install. **DEVELOPER** the program really should ask people to do this before installing.

Anti-virals are TOOLS people, and not particularly smart tools at that. They need to be used with some degree of thought and intelligence on the part of the operator. The time to worry about a program is when the developer HASN'T told you that it does something like keylogging and the checker flags it.

#81 keyloggers do not necessarily violate your "privacy" it is what a keylogger does with the logged keystrokes which matters.

#82 If you use a tool and let it make all the decisions, you may or may not be "safe" but you will certainly be told to avoid some really useful utilities. If you're REALLY scared that it might be trouble, there are a couple of easy things you can do:

1) Send the program to an anti-virus software site for evaluation--and of the companies will tell you if it's harmful or not.

2) Search the net for comments about the program, there are a number of places which evaluate stuff and post the results.

I don't care for McaAffee, it makes too much noise for no reason: do I REALLY want to be told that my machine is "safe"? At best it's useless info and at worst it is not true--there are always new 'wild' viruses which have not been taught to the anti-virus software.

Norton as has been said seems to decline in quality every release, and both Norton and Mcafee can be a bear to get 'uninstalled.'

(I'm using and recommending Avast! for my clients.)

One of the main troubles of anti-virus software is that EVERY action used by a virus is a VALID system command, and thus can and will be used in other beneficial programs. IT IS UP TO YOU to decide whether or not a particular program is a real threat or not.

To those having trouble temporarily disabling your anti-virus software, look in the help files and the online info by the maker.

:) When in doubt, read the instructions. :)

There, good, free advice. I make a too much of my living because people won't bother to read the help files or contact support about issues, despite being told that that is the answer. But hey, if people want to pay me to read their help files and call support, it's fine by me. :)

In a day or so, when I've had a chance to really evaluate this program, I'll post a real review. This kind of program has been around for a very long time, and I've used many different ones over the past 35 years, even the clunky ones are useful.

Raise up and claim cyberspace, you ARE smarter than your computer software (I hope....)

Reply   |   Comment by Charles Barnard  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#88

On my Sony Vaio laptop I have a UK keyboard that lacks diacritics like à en ë that we use a lot in Dutch. With this tool it is a snap to add them in ANY application in an identical way with just the keys you would like to use. Fine, although there should be freeware (or a Sony tool!!) to achieve this free of charge.

Reply   |   Comment by GerGn  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#87

Thank you GOTD. I just love this little program!! I just used the auto-replace for my name and email for this comment. I use notepad for a lot of drafting of letters, and am always accidentally misspelling something. So for me, this is one of the best of your programs so far!!

Reply   |   Comment by Suzan Ragan  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#86

#53 Veronica
Just ignore the jerks; there are good people here - we just have to help each other when the rest of them are too busy backbiting and bickering. Here's my suggestion:

Go to START - All Programs - Norton Internet Security

Then, bottom of list: Norton Internet Security (Select this one)
This should turn on a box allowing you to turn off Norton for a number of minutes while you get the program up and running.

If this doesn't work write back - I'm up all night. We'll figure it out!

Reply   |   Comment by Face  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#85

I enjoy GOTD website and hope they continue to provide free software. Today's Smart Type Assistant seems to be causing much concern per "Key logger detected" issued by AV programs during the install. At this time is when the user must decide whether a true threat exists or false positive. In this situation, it is the "presence and intent" of what the key logger will be used for AND will it be shared with anyone. For this program to "function" it must capture keystrokes, that is it's job. For the program to function, it MUST save what you type. If you want the features of the program, their is no other means to provide it other than including a mechanism to capture keystrokes. So "presence" is true. Now to be a real threat, we must prove "Intent". AV programs can only determine "presence". To prove "intent" you would need a program to monitor what was being done with the captured keystrokes. The first concern would be transmitting this information over the Internet "without" your consent. To monitor this activity you need to have a firewall on your computer which "monitors" communications "in and out" of your computer. Until this "act of intent" occurs, (communication to someone else without your consent) you can not label the presence of a mechanism to capture keystrokes as GOOD or BAD.
Example, most of us own and drive cars. When driving down the road and my "act of intent" was to arrive at my destination without causing injury to myself or others, this is GOOD. But if my "act of intent" was to drive my car down the road to intentionally hurt someone, you could be charged with "assault with a deadly weapon". Same car, same driver, same road, 2 different "acts of intent" result in opposite conditions.

Reply   |   Comment by Dennis L  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#84

I like this app. It's useful and has a nice clean interface.

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#83

OMG STOP SOME OF YOU PEOPLE are downright ignorant!!! GAOTD has said numerous times it's safe and spyware free, good lord but YET NO NO, People want to continue how their outdated Norton or other stopper stopped it or it wont run at all on their PC... Pffffft I wouldn't touch Norton OR any of the problematic neanderthal monitoring software that's been mentioned anyway HOWEVER I will install Smart Type Assistant because my System Suite Pro v7 and Kaspersky know what it is and don't see it as a threat at all because it's not, it's just downright good software!!! So go whine at the local pc store and delve out your dollars if you want tip top of the line functionality SHEEEESH, buyer beware, user beware... and as was stated it's safe at the keylogging it does, and so it MUST to be the program it ISSSSSSS...

Stan P.~~

Reply   |   Comment by Stan P.~JaPHA~  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#82

#56 Cyber Guy what a weak excuse for a human being you are. When #53 Veronica politely asks other uses of this forum for help you do nothing but put her down with your poor attempt at humour.
#53 Veronica even though I am not able to help you, please don't think that all of us at this forum are as sarcastic and rude as Cyber Guy.

Reply   |   Comment by Tyele  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#81

Ok first off this is my second comment on this GEM OF A SOFTWARE... #44 the problems you are having far outstem the install of this program, so do your scans system maintenance and quit blaming this fine piece of software!!! Smart Type Assistant, sorry for the low rating that I gave it earlier... after using it for the last 21 hours I give it an unwaivering 9.9 out of 10 STARS, it's the most used system wide tool in my arsenal. A Hearty huge THUMBS WAY HIGH TO BLAZE AND GAOTD for this GEM, hey if anyone is having any problems with the GEM they best do some serious scans and system wide maintenance as it's my top ranked tool since owning my pc back in AUG. 2003 and using it for 90+ hours a week this puppy outshines all the similair tools I have tried and is very stable, swift and configurability ROCKS! The added ClipBoard Manager is convenient, but I use DITTO for large and on going Clipboard management, yet Smart Type Assistant Is just that SMART and highly assistive. Also the Diary addition is fabulous as well, just one plain, "DOES AS IT STATES" software One can have custom signatures or any text and it pops up on demand only after configuring it once with your desired text, a PLOOOP sound if you like and pressing the return key pops it into place one @*&#&, fine UTIL! and highly used here, KUDOS!!

Reply   |   Comment by Stan P.~  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#80

My McAfee Enterprise Edition Anti-virus did not like this program. It's an excellent program from my company. The program may be ok but I will not accept anything that my Anti-virus rejects. Sorry! I can't use this one

Reply   |   Comment by Edster  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#79

to #16, Developer:
Blazing Tools is YOUR company. And you even acknowledge that Perfect Keylogger is from your site, and is a keylogger! After Norton denied installation of this, I decided to come here again, to take a look at the comments on whether this really was a keylogger. When reading your comment, I immediately deleted this. I'd like to keep my private things PRIVATE, thank you.

Reply   |   Comment by Anonymous  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#78

Hey number 43, thanks for your post. It absolutely made my day. I truly needed a good laugh. Thanks.

Reply   |   Comment by Kat  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#77

#72 , it is your anti-virus giving you a false alarm. And you are upset with GAOTD and not your anti-virus? ROTFL

Reply   |   Comment by BillW50  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#76

Great tool, however there is a typo in the demo. they spelled example as exampe, I guess they got to use to their own program :-)

Reply   |   Comment by tj  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#75

Is there somewhere a polish language pack to download?

Reply   |   Comment by student  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#74

I didn't think this program would be useful at all for me -- but I downloaded just to waste some time. I figured I'd uninstall it right away.

I was wrong. I love it. It's quite a handy little tool (set of tools?). And the tutorial is excellent (I wish all programs came with such tutorials!).

Thanks GOTD

Reply   |   Comment by Sean  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#73

We get this error message when we try to intsall.

Cardinal Not Found

The cardinal 6569 could not be located in the dymanic link library MFC42.DDL.


How to fix?

Running 2000 professional on an IBM Thinkpad A20M

Reply   |   Comment by silentwatcher9  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#72

thnks a lot i will use it as much as possible

Reply   |   Comment by ari  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#71

I am very disappointed with this software program and GAOTD. You all should certainly know better than to distribute software with spyware, especially when you give it the seal of being 100% clean of spyware....

Reply   |   Comment by Upset user  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#70

GOTD, get better programs on here

Reply   |   Comment by moop  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#69

RE: #43
Thanks. That needed to be said. :-)

RE: #48.2
You can try contacting GAOTD about that. I don't know if there's anything they can do, but it's worth a shot. You might also want to browse the comments for xStarter--probably start reading the day after the giveaway.

Reply   |   Comment by Sweetest Deals  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#68

#61 Veronica, don't like the meanies get to you. They are not worth it! And not everyone here is a meanie. :)

Reply   |   Comment by BillW50  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#67

sorry i meant 56

Reply   |   Comment by Rod smith  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#66

#60 Why Old Girl? Why do you let people those people get to you? I personally know they don't know what they are talking about. Remember:

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." ~ Albert Einstein

Reply   |   Comment by BillW50  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#65

@ post #27 goggle-eyed

" I thought you meant that a firewall would be a nice and much appreciated offer from GOTD one day (I agree)."


That is what I was asking GAOTD.

Reply   |   Comment by the reason  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#64

Hey 53 i dont know if your just really light in the pants or stupid the reason its called comments is to try to help people not judge them. I guess you didnt get that

Reply   |   Comment by Rod smith  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#63

@ Slava GAOTD

In response to the note you added on to #20 post. Just to be clear, I wasn't saying STA is a bad program. I said it was a keylogger because it is one, it logs your key strokes. I just want to be clear that I wasn't saying the program contained any type of malware/spyware etc...

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Reply   |   Comment by the reason  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#62

This is really a handy and will most likely be most peoples most used utility. Now those are thinking naw, just doesn't understand how much time this can save you. Like typing the days of the week like "mon" can change into Monday. Degrees into °. 1/2 into ½, etc. And if you use emoticons, it just doesn't get easier than this. :)

I don't know much about this "clipboard spelling feature". But the freeware "tinySpell" is wonderful and works well with Smart Type Assistant.

And those that are too scared, because it acts like a keyboard logger which it is. And worried about that it will tell someone on the Internet about your keystokes. Well if you know what a keyboard logger is, you should be also smart enough to put those fears to rest. By telling your firewall to block any attempts from Smart Type Assistant talking to the outside world. It won't anyway, it just helps your peace of mind. :)

Reply   |   Comment by BillW50  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#61

You win, I am out of here, I ask a simple question and you guys are so mean its ridiculous. As for my job, I do quite well but unfortunately I do not spend all my time playing on the computer and acting like I am smarter than everyone else in the world. I am secure enough with myself to admit I don't know everything and sometimes I need a little help. I will figure it out myself, I was just trying to get a little help since I actually do have a life and did not want to spend my day in front of the computer but I guess thinking you people were actually nice and a community was just another mistake I made. Sorry won't ever happen again!

Reply   |   Comment by Veronica  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#60

I was going to leave a comment about the program, but after reading the nastiness of some of these posts, I think I'll pass.

Reply   |   Comment by Old Girl  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#59

@ MakeHimPay #43 ROFL

Reply   |   Comment by Fab Scott  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#58

Hahahaha - Symantec sucks. I thought everyone knew that by now.


This program is ok.

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#57

Comment was deleted for using a personal insult against another commenter.

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#56

Comment was deleted for using a personal insult against another commenter.

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