Comments on: Web Spelling Bee http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/04/web-spelling-bee/ Entertainment and Tech Digest Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tunequest http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/04/web-spelling-bee/comment-page-1/#comment-486 tunequest Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:33:24 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/04/web-spelling-bee/#comment-486 Yep, I've been workin' it Mac-style since the late-80s. Excellent tools, I find. Yep, I’ve been workin’ it Mac-style since the late-80s. Excellent tools, I find.

]]> By: webomatica http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/04/web-spelling-bee/comment-page-1/#comment-485 webomatica Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:13:37 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/04/web-spelling-bee/#comment-485 Tunequest... that's cool... I wasn't sure if you were a Mac guy... good to hear there's another in the fold. I'm a notorious fence-straddler... I love Mac and OS X at home but at work I'm on a PC. I didn't realize the spelling was learn-capable. You give me a good idea... teach it these web company names (Yahoo! TechCrunch, iTunes) so I'll always be on that ball...! Tunequest… that’s cool… I wasn’t sure if you were a Mac guy… good to hear there’s another in the fold. I’m a notorious fence-straddler… I love Mac and OS X at home but at work I’m on a PC.

I didn’t realize the spelling was learn-capable. You give me a good idea… teach it these web company names (Yahoo! TechCrunch, iTunes) so I’ll always be on that ball…!

]]> By: tunequest http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/04/web-spelling-bee/comment-page-1/#comment-484 tunequest Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:02:14 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/04/web-spelling-bee/#comment-484 Coincidentally, I read another article recently about the importance of developing a "style book" for one's site and sticking to it, which is something I've tried to do from the beginning. Though, I am guilty of having changed the style a couple times without correcting older posts. leading to a mish-mash that I will one day have to deal with. Most of my "style" is derived from the MLA that I learned in school and the AP, which I've had to learn on-the-job, all with my own spin attached like the use of minor asides rather than parentheticals in some cases. As for spelling, Mac OS X's built-in check-as-you-type feature for Cocoa apps (Safari, TextEdit, etc) rocks my socks. As you said, handy red underline and a right-click and you're done. Plus, you can tell the system to learn the spelling of an underlined word in one application and it will be recognized in all the others. Huzzah! Coincidentally, I read another article recently about the importance of developing a “style book” for one’s site and sticking to it, which is something I’ve tried to do from the beginning. Though, I am guilty of having changed the style a couple times without correcting older posts. leading to a mish-mash that I will one day have to deal with.

Most of my “style” is derived from the MLA that I learned in school and the AP, which I’ve had to learn on-the-job, all with my own spin attached like the use of minor asides rather than parentheticals in some cases.

As for spelling, Mac OS X’s built-in check-as-you-type feature for Cocoa apps (Safari, TextEdit, etc) rocks my socks. As you said, handy red underline and a right-click and you’re done. Plus, you can tell the system to learn the spelling of an underlined word in one application and it will be recognized in all the others.

Huzzah!

]]>