Programs on CD-ROM were the big hit in 1995. Unfortunately also for thieves who picked the expensive CDs from the presentation computers at the then popular CeBit IT trade show. It was this situation, when our today’s managing director came up with the idea, that started it all: “Why not copy the CD-ROM to the hard disk and make Windows believe that this copy were a CD drive.”

Virtual CD, the CD drive emulator, was born. The program created a new genre and became a bestseller. But this was just the start: “If we can virtualize CD-ROMs, why not virtualize the graphics card, too?!”.

Since the market did not offer anything suitable for us, we decided to make a text snippet program on our own, which later evolved into the typing productivity solution “PhraseExpress”, now used by well-known companies around the globe.

PhraseExpress is a text expander software, that manages frequently used text templates for insertion into any program. The template manager organizes text templates in multiple languages or customizable categories. Phrases can be triggered from the snippet menu, by hotkey or with autotext shortcuts.

The autotext software is available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and iPhone/iPad. Boilerplate templates are customizable with user input before insertion and be shared in the cloud or in the local network by a Microsoft SQL or PhraseExpress Server.