Our thanks goes out to Smile for sponsoring MacStories with TextExpander.

TextExpander takes the pain out of typing the same mundane things over and over again. If you work in customer support, respond to inquiries, work with various signatures, or find yourself typing the same boilerplate text, TextExpander saves you time. On the Mac, TextExpander lets you create short phrases and keywords that can expand into dates, addresses, and paragraphs of text with just a few keystrokes. You can even create pre-formatted forms that let you add in things like a person’s name. For those who want to take TextExpander to the next level, TextExpander even lets you perform custom actions on text that you might regularly copy and paste from somewhere else, like a technical support guide. If you work with words, TextExpander will prove to be an invaluable tool for your Mac.

TextExpander touch 2.0 on iOS devices now comes with the same great features that are found on the Mac, such as formatted text and fill-ins. If you’re working on the go, it’s a great way to get the same benefits from of the desktop onto your iPhone or iPad.

Try TextExpander for your Mac today by downloading a free trial. If you like it, be sure to try TextExpander touch, which can be downloaded  from the App Store.

Learn more about the benefits of TextExpander here.

Our thanks to Global Delight for sponsoring MacStories this week with Boom.

Boom goes above and beyond the speakers in your MacBook or iMac to deliver impressive sound. Boom boosts the volume of your Mac so you can hear your favorite music, movies, and games over noisy fans or background noise. Boom even boosts the volume of music files in your iTunes playlists so you can listen to tunes on the go at fuller volumes. Plus, Boom offers personalized presets through its built-in equalizer, meaning you’ll always get the best sound no matter what you’re listening to.

Earning Macworld’s Best of Show award in 2011, Boom takes your audio a whole new level. Try Boom today and get $2 off the regular price.

Our thanks goes out to Smile this week for sponsoring MacStories with PDFpen 6.

PDFpen offers an affordable alternative for marking up, editing, and adding images to PDF documents. Available across Mac and iOS, PDFpen goes anywhere you do, giving you the capability to correct typos, add your signatures, and re-order pages on the fly. Because PDFpen uses OCR (optical character recognition) on PDFs and scanned documents, text is digitized so you can edit text and search the entire document for a particular keyword or phrase.

PDFpen 6 for the Mac supports Retina displays, and comes equipped with a powerful toolbar for getting things done faster than before. And for use in the office, you can export documents to a Microsoft Word document. Best of all, PDFpen 6 will auto save as you annotate or edit your PDFs, meaning you’ll never lose your progress if you have leave for a quick meeting.

PDFpen 6 is only $59.95 on the Smile Store and the Mac App Store. You can learn more and download a free trial here.

Our thanks to Creaceed for sponsoring MacStories this week with Prizmo.

Prizmo makes scanning easy, requiring nothing more than an iPhone, iPad, or your favorite digital camera. Prizmo works like magic — it takes a snapshot of your document and transforms it into a digital format which can be used and worked on just like any ordinary file. Text recognized in more than 40 languages is pulled right from the pages and transferred to Prizmo thanks to an amazing Optical Character Recognition engine that can read every word. And that text is immediately editable, so you can lay out your scanned documents, add, and delete as you see fit. Plus, you’re not even tethered to your phone. Prizmo has apps on all of your apple devices, so you can keep your documents in sync with iCloud, or via other storage apps like Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Drive. Who needs a big, bulky scanner when you have Prizmo?

Prizmo for iOS devices is only $9.99, with the Mac version starting at $49.99. You can learn more about the Prizmo suite of software here, and try a demo of the Mac version with your portable camera from the Mac page.