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<h6>Enabling Auto Spelling Correction in Snow Leopard</h6>
<p><p>In Snow Leopard, the automatic spelling correction in applications is not usually activated by default. To turn it on, make sure the cursor's insertion point is somewhere where text can be entered, and either choose Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Correct Spelling Automatically or, if the Edit menu's submenu doesn't have what you need, Control-click where you're typing and choose Spelling and Grammar > Correct Spelling Automatically from the contextual menu that appears. The latter approach is particularly likely to be necessary in Safari and other WebKit-based applications, like Mailplane.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/765"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('765', 'show')">Rev: Saving Us From Saver's Remorse</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_765" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_765">My main complaint about the Macintosh industry these days is that there are few new products with broad appeal. Internet products do relatively well in that category, but I ran across a product at Macworld Expo this year that should appeal to almost every Macintosh user.When I worked at Cornell University as a student in the public computer rooms, it was all too common for someone to select an entire document with Command-A (often missing the intended Command-S) and type a letter accidentally, replacing the entire document with that letter</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Jan 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/769"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('769', 'show')">About the Show: Macworld Expo San Francisco</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_769" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_769">After every Macworld Expo, I write an article expressing my thoughts about the show. For the most part, those articles haven't been particularly positive in recent years</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 13 Jan 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_772" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_772">As we start 1997, I want to express our thanks for your votes in the American Journalism Review's Top 50 news sites poll. They arrived in sufficient numbers to place TidBITS 17th out of 50 news sites, ahead of sites such as MSNBC and HotWired</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Jan 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/774"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('774', 'show')">More Power from the P.O.</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_774" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_774">More Power from the P.O. The world of Macintosh mailing list managers just became more compelling with the release of StarNine's ListSTAR 1.1 and Fog City Software's LetterRip 1.0</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Jan 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/778"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('778', 'show')">The NeXT Thing for Apple</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_778" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_778">On Friday, December 20th, we were packing up for Christmas vacation when the rumors of Apple buying NeXT started in earnest. By evening, when rumors coalesced into reality with an Apple-organized press conference, we were eating dinner and leaving for the airport</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Jan 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/780"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('780', 'show')">Vote for TidBITS!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_780" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_780">Vote for TidBITS! American Journalism Review's NewsLink is conducting a "Best of the Web" poll for online news sites. TidBITS doesn't rely primarily on the Web, considering that our 42,000-person mailing list is our main distribution method, but, sniff, we're not even listed</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Dec 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/799"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('799', 'show')">More Power After Power Failures</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_799" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_799">My story in TidBITS-356 about problems with soft-power Macs restarting after power failures resulted in tons of messages, and what seemed like a clear-cut issue clouded over fast</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Dec 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/806"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('806', 'show')">The Power Key Mystery</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_806" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_806">This story starts back in July, when Geoff and I installed a Power Macintosh 7100/66 in the offices of Point of Presence Company, where our main Web and mail server (an Apple Workgroup Server 6150) also lives</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Dec 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_808" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_808">We'd like to congratulate ShrinkWrap programmer Chad Magendanz and his wife Galen on the ahead-of-schedule release of their first non-software product - Quinn Pierce Magendanz</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Nov 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/809"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('809', 'show')">Got a Holiday Gift Suggestion?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_809" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_809">Got a Holiday Gift Suggestion? We at TidBITS love the holiday season, even with the capitalist feeding frenzy that it has become. If you're interested in participating in one of our holiday traditions, send one paragraph descriptions of your favorite computer-related gift ideas (for giving or receiving) to me at before 02-Dec-96</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Nov 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_812" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_812">The press releases have been flying fast and furious in the Macintosh Web world of late, mostly on the server side of things. But, lest you think Web servers aren't for mere mortals, read on for news of how you might find yourself running one in the not-so-far future.WebSTAR 2.0 Appears -- The main news for the week was the release of StarNine's WebSTAR 2.0, the leading Web server in the Macintosh market</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Nov 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_827" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_827">It was just my luck that after writing an entire article about directory services on the Mac (see TidBITS-352), Apple announced it would be supporting LDAP, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Nov 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/834"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('834', 'show')">Directory Services on the Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_834" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_834">A while back I wrote an article about the lack of directory services on the Macintosh for MacWEEK, and as is often the case with paper publications, felt that I couldn't fit all the information I had into the article</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 04 Nov 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_837" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_837">In January of 1994, Connectix introduced RAM Doubler, an innovative utility that transparently appeared to double the amount of memory in most Macs (it requires a 68030 processor or higher)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Oct 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_839" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_839">We did a wee bit of tweaking on both our setext format and the Web format of this week's issue. Nothing big, just a minor reorganization and rewording of some of our administrative information</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Oct 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/843"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('843', 'show')">WorldScript Power Adapter Speed Increase</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_843" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_843">We're all interested in squeezing as much performance out of our Macs as is reasonable, and a tip from Tim Holmes, Mac OS Evangelist at Apple, might help Power Mac users a bit</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Oct 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/846"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('846', 'show')">Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Older Macs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_846" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_846">Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Older Macs -- Netscape has discovered a problem with Navigator 3.0 on Macs with the so-called "dirty" ROMs and more than 8 MB of RAM installed</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Oct 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/847"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('847', 'show')">Send In More Clones</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_847" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_847">Last week brought the interesting news that hard drive vendor (and TidBITS sponsor) APS plans to start selling a line of Macintosh clones, probably sometime in November</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Oct 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/849"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('849', 'show')">And You Still Forgot...</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_849" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_849">My article in TidBITS-346 about why products may not be mentioned in articles prompted some additional suggestions and a few queries worth addressing.Tom Negrino writes with a reason that no one has accused me of yet:Surprisingly, you neglected the reason for ignoring a product that stuns me the most when I'm accused of it:"You're being bought off by Apple / Microsoft / Adobe / Joe's Software Company not to mention a product."As I said to my girlfriend last month when Apple was delivering the usual load of gold bullion onto the front porch, "I can't believe that some people question the journalistic integrity in the Mac business!"Oy</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Oct 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_850" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_850">I've been working on and thinking about the Internet for many years now, and I've seen a lot of technologies come and go. Most don't stick around for long because, frankly, they have problems</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Oct 1996</div></div>
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