iOS keyboard shortcuts on a Mac?

Yes you can create keyboard shortcuts on OS X. Here are some tutorials that shows how:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8564.html

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/24/mac-101-make-your-own-keyboard-shortcut/

Almost all the apps where you input text have a type of spell checking, some have auto correct some will highlight spelling errors and then you can easily fix them. You can also click a word and get thesaurus information. For example I can use a Magic Trackpad and when I 3 finger tap a word it's automatically highlighted, and provides spelling (US & UK for me) and thesaurus suggestions. I'm not quite sure if that's what you're looking for though.

You might be able to use Text Substitution for that.

To try that out, Go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Text. Checkmark the first item, "use symbol and text substitution" if it is not already checkmarked.

Then click the "+" button under the list in the left side. Enter the keyboard characters you want to use as the trigger; then enter the text string you want that trigger replaced by.

I use that to quick-enter my email address. I set the trigger string as dak. so it would not be something that I would type normally (and hence not want replaced).

Pretty cool, thanks ! However this doesnt work on FB or many other webpages on safari, is there a way to expand the shortcuts for this app /web pages ? On pages, notes and many others works pretty fine.

Well, did anyone find a working solution for Safari? The solution is prety much worthless, as most of typing is done on the web browser these days.

Just to notice, that Text Substitution doesn't work on a browser, i.e. Safari.

As someone mentioned here, that this Substitute function is per-app enabled, so here's what you need to do on every app that isn't enabled yet:

Anyways, there's another minor thing that is bothering me, I need that text substitution to work not only when I press "space", but also "tab". This is extremely helpful when completing web forms or just login form (email input > tab > password input). Anyone knows how to make it work with tab as well?

Actually this one's even better http://www.macworld.com/article/1160500/text_substitutions.html

I just finished manually creating the many shortcuts in my iPad on my new MacBook Pro. They don't work! 😟

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See? That was supposed to come out as LOL, tsk tsk tsk, omigosh, and heeheehee. Nothing.

The iOS also auto-spells iOS, MacOS, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, etc. with the proper lower/upper cases for me. MacOS isn't doing it. I'm spoiled by iOS features!

If you're using the Test Substitution feature for that, the substitution may not appear until one additional character is typed, such as a space.

And, be sure the feature is enabled.