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- jakk, on 03/07/2009, -8/+58This is why I like Apple. They offer up OS improvements that are just as accessible to 3rd party developers as they are to Apple itself.
- MacParrot, on 03/07/2009, -1/+40@CR
Let's be honest, you make these comments because...well...you're a dick - digitalpencil, on 03/07/2009, -2/+32 ^ jesus, not everyone on earth is a fanboy of x, y and z.. you people are just getting annoying.
- bilbohicks, on 03/07/2009, -2/+26What an ignorant and idiotic comment.
- BrendanSheehan, on 03/06/2009, -4/+22soynds goos
- t0ny, on 03/07/2009, -3/+20I can't wait for the substitutions feature! I've been using it in Pages and would LOVE to have it system wide. :)
- motoyen, on 03/07/2009, -2/+18I wish they would make Past and Match Style the default for command-v.
- srg13, on 03/07/2009, -1/+14It actually does... They're running the same kernel, and mostly the same libraries, just with different interfaces...
- VyRuZ, on 03/07/2009, -0/+13Wait, wasn't it running OS X one of the biggest selling points?
- haentz, on 03/07/2009, -0/+11Everyone who has eyes in his head can disable this in the settings. No jailbreak needed...
- digitalpencil, on 03/07/2009, -0/+11because people like you keep making inane comments expressing your discontent rather than simply burying things you don't like and *shock horror* digg's algorithm takes into account the number of comments a submission receives within a given timeframe.
seriously guys, if you don't like the story, bury it.. don't comment about not liking it, it only bumps its perceived popularity and pisses everyone else off who's actually interested in the thread.
similarly, if you don't like the topic, filter it. don't jump on every article thread and start making comments about how you hate everything to do with 'X'. it will simply flag the topic as controversial and bump its FP rank. - DAILYCROW, on 03/07/2009, -0/+10ColonialRule
i visited your profile. You get dugg down on almost anything you say.
Talk about lamers - aristotle0dude, on 03/07/2009, -1/+11Or maybe you are a dick and jakk might actually be a third party developer who is excited about the new features in the upcoming release of their application frameworks. Apple seems to go out of it's way to make developing software easier with every release of OS X while MSFT tends to not even "eat their own dog food" by using custom dialog boxes controls in their MS Office releases rather than updating their shared common controls dlls and inheriting and extending those controls instead.
I speak as a third party windows developer (at work) and mac user (at home). - iJesus, on 03/07/2009, -1/+11The current auto-correction preferences in Pages '09: http://twitpic.com/1wc8q
- punkcat, on 03/07/2009, -0/+9doug.
- digitalpencil, on 03/07/2009, -0/+9you can just disable it in settings o_O?
back under your bridge troll.. - DaviDTC, on 03/07/2009, -0/+8I usually bury things as lame if I thought others thought it was lame.
- garionw, on 03/07/2009, -4/+12FTA "While Mac OS X already delivers integrated, system wide spelling and grammar checking, as well as smart copy/paste"
That made me chuckle (I'm looking at you iPhone) - kimbja98, on 03/07/2009, -1/+8So they've added features a few of which us MS Office users have enjoyed for a long time...;)
Actually, it is better as these changes are global wrt the OS rather than contained in a single app suite like office - aristotle0dude, on 03/07/2009, -2/+9That makes absolutely no sense. OS X is unix. Do you like Ubuntu because it's more geeky and has less software available for it?
- AndrewWiggin, on 03/07/2009, -1/+8I can't help but point out that your unsolicited comment doesn't help the situation.
(Though I agree with you, a fanboy is better than a hateboy, and they're both lesser than the average user of anything, Mac OS X or otherwise.) - carbonfilament, on 03/07/2009, -0/+7Well I hope that you can shut it off in a useful way. I hate auto correct in MS word - I constantly fight it when it tries to correct things that I meant to type. And in all honesty I've been an awful speller my entire life and the current system has helped me get better by identifying the mistakes and forcing me to fix it myself.
Also, º£™¢∞§¶•åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚œøˆ∑¨´† and more are accessible on a Mac now in two keystrokes, I don't need a new system for me to type some obscure key combination and have it change what I mean to type. ie: if I want to have a ©, I'll type it. If I want to have (c), I'll type that.
As I said, I just that we can shut it off in a useful way. - MacParrot, on 03/07/2009, -1/+6@DP,
THAT'S the part that really cracks me up. They complain about the lameness of some article by commenting on it helping to assure that it DOES make the front page. Dero9, you whine like a little girl about all the Apple articles making the front page and thereby actually help many of them do so!
You and all you complaining Apple hating buddies are like the absolute worst Apple fanboy's best friend!
Just thought you should know. - ethana2, on 03/07/2009, -2/+6I like Apple because of their hardware design. (I use Ubuntu.)
- MonsterRayn, on 03/07/2009, -2/+6Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Auto-Correction -> Off
That wasn't so difficult now was it? - jakem1, on 03/07/2009, -0/+4Yes the second feature they mention sounds like Office Smart Tags and AppleInsider mention that the autocorrection works like Word. It would be nice to see Microsoft extending more innovations from Office to Windows like they are with the Ribbon in Windows 7.
- rimantas, on 03/08/2009, -0/+4@dandonia
Yeah, I can tell you—you are being dug down because you want OS X to behave like Windows. It is not OS fault that you dont't try to learn.
And no, I won'b beleive you about Pages crashing.
And I can very well see the "Delete" key on my Mac keyboard. I also do know where are my home end and page-up page-down keys.
Can you believe, that I also know how to get cut and paste functionality on OS X? Only I don't have to cut and paste, all I have to do is drag and drop.
So stop looking for the Windows funcionality on OS X and learn the OS. Or stick to Windows if that's what you preferr. - digitalpencil, on 03/07/2009, -2/+6^ buried as pointless (i thought this was pointless)
- 0xception, on 03/08/2009, -0/+3I have an idea...
you don't be an ass in regards to other people's choice of OS and they shouldn't be an ass to you about yours. I would imagine you dont like people calling you fan-boys but that doesn't mean you should piss on other peoples choices. I use fedora because i really do think it's superior, plus it's FREE and OPEN... those are my choices, I enjoy the open source community. If you choose to pay a ***** load of money (in my opinion) on their hardware and their software to use their product well hey it's your money and your choice and you can do what you want. You might like their OS design and layout and that's fine, parts of the kernel design from what i've read seem really interesting. I however do not want that and i would assume ethana2 doesn't either so dont be a jerk for no reason.
(although i do have to agree i think he's the first i've heard of who has purchased apple for the hardware...) - klowngoblin, on 03/07/2009, -3/+6looks the same as the windows one
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/pr5owner/auto ... - dlan4327, on 03/07/2009, -1/+4Looking forward to Snow Leopard. Not going to buy it but I am curious to see the new features.
Time Machine for me was the best idea in Leopard. Backing up has always been a pet peeve of mine. - dandonia, on 03/08/2009, -1/+4Care to say why you dugg me down? I hate that cowardly ass, it's one thing to digg a small comment down that is clearly full of untruths but to digg a decent sized post down without a reply is just annoying.
- Jonwils, on 03/07/2009, -1/+4to me they look a hell of a lot clearer than windows clear type bit thats just me... and im not old :P
- fyngyrz, on 03/07/2009, -2/+5-> Doug
- inactive, on 03/07/2009, -2/+5I hated it in Office, I hated it on my iPod touch, and I'll hate it in Snow Leopard. I'm glad you can turn it off.
- xryancat, on 03/07/2009, -3/+6Is this sarcasm? Apple is well known for keeping undocumented API to themselves on both the iPhone and OS X.
Microsoft has the best documentation of any software company ever. Microsoft is held under much more scrutiny than Apple because they hold more market share. (This is especially true in the EU). - ploke, on 03/07/2009, -1/+3I would really like user editable substitutions. Think about it, you type "pphone" and it 'auto corrects' into your phone number. Same with "aaddress" (address) or "sstu" (for student number) or "eemail". You could do it for email signatures, for bits of code that you use a lot... There is a lot of potential there.
- gemmakicn, on 03/08/2009, -0/+2I'd like to see the text processing functionality usable from websites the same way it is for calendar dates in leopard mail.
- Rekutyn, on 03/09/2009, -0/+2This discussion has been beaten to death so many times re: font rendering.
If you are a traditional print type-setting maven, you will truly appreciate the way OS X handles font rendering of variable width fonts. If you are used to how Windows has been doing it since the dawn of Windows, then you are just pre-disposed to the "wrong" way on screens. However, every piece of printed text you've likely ever read is done the OS X way. - Smoozle, on 03/07/2009, -2/+4Haaaaaa haaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaa ha ha...
Oh man, my belly hurts.
Ha ha...
Yeah, that sure was a "Pro Tipp". - ism70605, on 03/08/2009, -1/+2@0xception
Replacing OS X with Linux is the equivalent of replacing Windows Vista with ReactOS. - inactive, on 03/07/2009, -1/+2Yeah, that seems pretty useful - although I do have ® © ™ memorized already - so maybe I can just forget them and use the space to memorize something else.
- fyngyrz, on 03/07/2009, -1/+2Be interesting to see how/if they handle compatibility with drivers, hardware, etc. We have a lot of "stuff" attached to our five Macs, from firewire through USB to monitors, and a lot of installed apps. I'll watch for quite a while to make sure we're not going to lose something critical.
One tip for others who are holding off upgrading is watch out for upgrades for your apps, too; sometimes, they require the new OS, and so upgrading under the old OS will break your app. This happened to me without any warning with NewsFire, an RSS reader, and the author (David Watanabe) offered no way to back out of the upgrade. I use RSS feeds heavily to track what is happening with my various net activities, so this was really annoying. I switched to another reader and never looked back, but this also meant the money I spent on NewsFire was no longer working for me. - dacjames, on 03/08/2009, -0/+1The auto-correct feature has great prank potential. I had fun with Word, OS wide is even better.
- dandonia, on 03/08/2009, -1/+2While that doesn't mean much here on digg, Apple insiders are not fanboys they just report on Apple products which is not to say they bum everything apple does.
- jakem1, on 03/07/2009, -1/+2Why not just edit the Autocorrect dictionary if there are a few words that you would prefer Word didn't modify?
- ethana2, on 03/10/2009, -0/+1ism70605: you mean 'fink'? Really not that much software available through fink.
Linux includes features that posix does not specify. Often times when people go to port linux apps to OS X and Solaris, they encounter system function after system function that just isn't there; posix doesn't seem to be the main problem.
It is inevitable that OS X will get an app store, proper licensing, actual hardware support, and decent colemak support soon. When it does, it may become my preferred desktop operating system.
...assuming I can slap it on my thumb drive and boot off of it with whatever machine I happen to have access to, like I can with Ubuntu. - dandonia, on 03/08/2009, -3/+4I'm not calling you a fanboy or anything but the way I see it Apple go out of their way to cripple 3rd party development. The are famous for trying to control too much of their operating system. Simple things like the track pad issue that is causing me to send my 17" back, if they occurred on a windows machine I could fix them but (granted I didn't do massive research into this so could be wrong) Apple seem to have locked the trackpad functionality down.
They also seem to go out of their way to make themselves different to the majority of alternatives even when it is not needed and only serves to cause confusion. Simple things like F5 been refresh on browsers through windows. The button isn't doing anything in Safari - so why not have it refresh the page too windows uses CTRL+R or F5 so it's not like they have to abandon CMD+R.
Why doesn't my keyboard have a "delete" key or "Home" "End" Page Up" "Page Down" etc. It can't be to save space because there is plenty of room not to mention keys like ±§ which I can't think of a time in my life where I have needed them. But DELETE is a standard word processing feature. Why isn't it there?
A lot of people make out like Apple are great innovators and have superior software when in reality they have some nice touches but ***** up the most basic necessities. For example, Pages doesn't have an auto recovery program, which means 1 crash and all unsaved documents are gone. And believe me, that app crashes at the smallest errors. I can't think of a more important feature to a production suit than an auto recovery program.
Why no maximize buttons? Why no cut and pasting of files? etc.
I will never understand a company setting out to be better than their competitors by completely ignoring what it's users are familiar and want from a product. And before you say "Apple users don't want that" You are wrong, I am an Apple user I want my damn maximize button, I want simple file manipulation such as cut and paste, I want OSX to have all the "basic" functionality of windows and I want them to follow their own advice on making programs accessible to users. - dandonia, on 03/08/2009, -2/+3Couldn't be truer, MSDN all the way people. Developers have access to windows at the most basic layers where as Apple lock things down. I suppose the trade off is that mac's seem more secure (even if they aren't - disclaimer: I am not a mac security expert so I don't konw if they are or aren't)
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