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"Users will [also] be able to define a list of phrases or long words that will be automatically substituted when the user types a given character sequence. For example, 'MOSX' could be designated to expand to 'Apple's Mac OS X operating system."

I'd LOVE to have that for the iPhone.

Mar 06, 09 - 01:44 pm Comment from: CourtJester

Such things will be wondrous to behold.

And more than a bit useful.

But think of the children!
They won't recognize proper english!!

Teh Lulz!!!!

Now there will be an even easier way to tell who's running the latest versions of MOSX.

Mar 06, 09 - 02:13 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

What about Typeit4Me? Mac developer since '89.

Apple pissing on developers again.

Mar 06, 09 - 02:16 pm Comment from: HolyMackerel

"changing the selected text to all caps, or all small letters, or capitalized"

What is the difference between all caps and capitalized? I would prefer Apple to add Title and Sentence case.

Mar 06, 09 - 02:19 pm Comment from: nicemac

RE:
"What about Typeit4Me? Mac developer since '89.
Apple pissing on developers again."

Uh - maybe they BOUGHT Typeit4Me? - possible, they have done it before (Alarm Clock)

Or, maybe they did incorporate that functionality - they did wait 20 YEARS! That developer has had his chance...

RE: "What is the difference between all caps and capitalized?"

I think they mean, All Caps and Initial Caps, as illustrated below

ALL CAPS
Initial Caps

Never mind TypeIt4Me, I remember when you could use a macro recorder in System 7 to do all that sort of thing and that was well over a decade ago.

Mar 06, 09 - 02:29 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

@ nicemac,

Well he did finally make a Typeit4Me app for Windows. That should tide him over for 4 or 5 years until Redmond fires up its copiers.

Mar 06, 09 - 02:32 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

@ Dirty Pierre le Punk,

1989 was well over a decade ago too.

Mar 06, 09 - 02:33 pm Comment from: Sixvodkas

Dammit!

When I mean to write the teh, I meant to write the teh.
This feature will mean more work for me than I care to bear.

Can you explain it a little bit more for me? Hold on, let me check if my copier has enough paper...

Mar 06, 09 - 03:49 pm Comment from: Brau

Oh God, Apple **PLEASE** include an option to easily turn the feature off. I have love/hate relationship with auto-correction as all too often it corrects words I am intentionally abbreviating or altering names like Renee to Renew. Drives me nuts, but also helps when I want to get a note out real quick. Personally, the way correction works currently on my Mac is perfect.

Now if Apple will automatically add their new products into spell check as they are released it'll be great.

/* For example, 'MOSX' could be designated to expand to 'Apple's Mac OS X operating system,'" */

POS could be expanded to 'Microsoft's Vista Operating System'

POS7 could be expanded to 'Microsoft's Windows7 Operating System'

I am an English teacher and I absolutely do think that far more words are mis-spelled now that we have "spell checkers" than when people actually were required to know rules about spelling and grammar.

Welcome to the "new world" where I predict that in 10 years "loose" will be the official spelling of "lose". To be fair, that mistake seems to only occur on Microsoft based spell checkers. I see that error between 6-10 times a day, more so in e-mails, but also in papers. If you disagree with me, keep an eye out for the word "lose." See how it is spelled these days.

The problem is that with the general dumbing down of education that has happened in the last 40-50 years, fewer and fewer people know how to recognize when the spelling and grammar checker has made a mistake.

I know: I am old fogie. Ask me if I care what people think.

Mar 06, 09 - 04:27 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Sharing this on mulitiple Snow Leopard stories

(and without the advantage of 'instant spell' for multiple posts)




Yea, Yea, whoopie diddle - a Nice Feature


But ONLY if able to adjust finder search results window options

To include MORE than just " Name / Kind / Last Opened "

THAT has been a Serious Joke™ with 10.5


Good Grief

Since OS 8 or 9

All the way through 10.4

We've been able to configure a finder search result window

Same as ANY finder window


Apple, please bring back a previous "feature" as we "advance"

I want to get this frown off my face








BC

Mar 06, 09 - 04:32 pm Comment from: ken1w

@ kenh

The "loose" error has nothing to do with auto-spellchecking. Some people actually think "lose" is spelled "loose." They are called "loosers." But I see your point...

A lot of people younger than 40 can't do simple arithmetics in their head either. Or do more complex calculations (without a calculator) when you only need an approximate answer instead of an exact answer.

@kenh

I'm with you. My current pet peeve is those who don't know about contractions involved "have", ie. "should of" instead of "should've", including all (and I mean ALL) variations thereof.

MDN word: science, as in "it didn't used to take a degree in rocket science ta spel rite"

"Went" is a terribly abused word.
"I should've went there?!"
Not correct people.

Mar 06, 09 - 05:16 pm Comment from: andintroducing

Lame. Dumb idea.

Now we have to relearn how to type by adding more spaces to accept corrections? Almost as brilliant an idea as tabs in a title bar!

Just be sure to leave a check box for me to turn off every one of these idiotic "features." The more Apple evolves, the stupider some of its feature ideas become.

Sorry, but if I want 'the' spelled 'teh' it should be my choice.

Having computer features that think they know more about what you want to do than you do is generally a Microsoft characteristic.

Spell checking is nice, but I'd prefer a decent thesaurus and a more elegant way to switch between languages. I write in 4 different languages (French, Swedish, German, English) and would love being able to quickly switch between them. So far, Apple's Pages doesn't have anything close to MS Word's thesaurus and the system-wide spellcheck is clumsy and very (US) english centric. AFAIK, they still don't offer a non-english dictionary.

Mar 06, 09 - 07:58 pm Comment from: The Batman

And will this be as American based as it currently is? Is still seem to have trouble teaching my Pages and Keynote files how to properly spell some British English words.

umm, much as I love Macs, that has been in MS Office for years as Auto Replace.

I wonder if it'll fix commonly used, but incorrect, phrases like, "I could care less," when what the person really means is, "I couldn't care less." For some reason that one always bugs me.

what the person really means is, "I couldn't care less." For some reason that one always bugs me.

Is it the mistake itself, or the indicated stupidity of the speaker that gets on your nerves?

-jcr

Mar 06, 09 - 09:28 pm Comment from: NewtonsApple

@thefreemac.com

Yes it has, but you missed the key point- this feature is system wide (Core Text). Hence EVERY application running will have these features.

Hope it has an 'off' option too. I'd be happy if they just fixed the finder so it remembered every window I've adjusted and presumed I meant only that window unless told otherwise. Smart software can be a pita.

Great, now the most annoying feature of the iPhone is being extended to the desktop. I hope they include a feature to turn it off.

Better still, that they don't waste time and money implementing it.

Mar 06, 09 - 09:57 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

As I said above, it has been available in all Mac programs with the shareware program Typeit4Me since 1989.

Does this mean the type tool in FCP will FINALLY have a spellcheck?

Anyone remember Works+Spell circa 1988? It had phrase macros.

Aside from the language debate, I fail to see how such spell check features are regarded as "powerful". Yawn.

For me, the only time my documents have spelling errors in its is when the spell checker regards a correctly-spelled, but grammatically inappropriate word, as being correct. You sea what I mean?

p/s I'm not getting excited about Leopard. I'm not installing Snow Leopard until at least 10.6.6 -- i.e. where Leopard is right now in its bug-fixing. I was one of those that queued up at the Leopard launch party in October 2007, and then, upon installing the beast onto my Mac, promptly spent the next few hours in sheer terror as the Leopard threatened to destroy 10 years of data and digital photographs for which I had no backup,faced with the Mac blue screen of death. Two hours waiting on the phone to talk to Apple help desk inundated by calls, which gave no solution. (I actually found the solution by asking questions on the MacWorld.com forum -- for which I needed by trusty Windows XP computer to access). Ah, what would have happened if I didn't have a Windows PC on standby? Never again. Right now, Leopard is stable and doing everything I need. Moreover, Snow Leopard will largely be visually the same as Leopard, except for some eye-candy tweaks. So, from summer onwards, you guys can have fun beta testing Snow Leopard, and I'll join the party around 10.6.6, thank you very much. I won't miss a thing. C'mon, people. Snow Leopard is so radically different under the bonnet, there's bound to be problems galore when it finally goes 10.6.0. The only reason you're all salivating in anticipation is because media articles like this one are stoking the fire. Get some sense. Wait at least till 10.6.5.

Mar 07, 09 - 11:34 am Comment from: Ray

Looks like the Apple rumor mill is busy again...I guess all these rumors are to justify Apple being late, again, with an OS revision. That way when they announced that Snow Leopard won't be out until 2010 at WWDC, the rumor mill will keep saying but Microsoft is promising so much for this revision of OS X...Oh sorry got my vaporware companies confused....

One more thing...that Apple will not be delivering ZFS for all of us as promised, many years ago. Just for the servers.

Just my $0.02

Well *I* always use my Mac while standing on my head. Why the hell doesn't Apple make more features that apply to *ME*!?!?!

Oh wait, maybe I just like to whine...

"I guess all these rumors are to justify Apple being late, again"

Personally I quite like how Apple has been naming it's OS X service packs after different big cats. The one thing you should expect is because this isn't a whole new cat name that there isn't going to be as much in it as a normal in the next OS X service pack. I hope they don't charge as much for it as the previous service packs.