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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/9853"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9853', 'show')">Laptop Recovery Software Uses Wi-Fi and Flickr</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9853" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9853">GadgetTrak releases a Mac OS X laptop-recovery program that uses Wi-Fi positioning to identify a missing machine's location and Flickr to upload images of the thief.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 13 Nov 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9855" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9855">Apple releases Safari 3.2 to repair vulnerabilities and other problems in all versions of its flagship Web browser.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 13 Nov 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9846"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9846', 'show')">A Crack in Wi-Fi Security and How To Fix It</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9846" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9846">Security researchers have found a small hole they can exploit in the weaker of two modern methods of securing Wi-Fi. The problem shouldn't affect home users or small businesses, and there's an easy fix anyone with new enough hardware can apply.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 08 Nov 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9837"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9837', 'show')">Authors and Publishers Settle with Google Book Search</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9837" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9837">Authors and publishers have agreed to settle with Google over its book search program. The surprising part is that the resulting agreement will likely make millions more books widely available, benefit the public, and increase revenues to Google, authors, and publishers. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 29 Oct 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9834" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9834">LogMeIn is all about providing remote access to screens and files across the Internet. Its desktop software for Mac OS X and Windows is now complemented by a beta version for the iPhone and iPod touch.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 28 Oct 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9835" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9835">Following the end of a restrictive non-disclosure agreement for iPhone developers, Apple announces a beta test of forums meant for discussing programming ins and outs.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 28 Oct 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9823"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9823', 'show')">Android Code Released as Open Source</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9823" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9823">The day before the first smartphone using Android ships, the alliance behind the operating system put the full source code under open-source licensing.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 21 Oct 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9822"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9822', 'show')">T-Mobile's Google Phone Promising but Unpolished</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9822" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9822">The T-Mobile G1 with Google isn't as impressive today as it will likely be in several months. The first Android-based smartphone release shows potential because its lack of constraints, but it's not all there yet.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 20 Oct 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9805" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9805">Apple seems to have embraced a form of openness in its invitation to media and analysts for a corporate campus event 14-Oct-08. "The spotlight turns to notebooks."</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 09 Oct 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9802" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9802">An inexplicable error took us offline for a few hours Tuesday. We're back, mystified, and working to figure out what happened. How can a previously reliable system and two backups all fail? </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 07 Oct 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9794"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9794', 'show')">Easy Wi-Fi Enters Hotspot Passwords for You</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9794" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9794">Devicescape has finally released an Apple-approved version of its connection software for Wi-Fi hotspots. Easy Wi-Fi lets you enter network keys and subscription passwords on the company's Web site and then use them without re-entry on an iPhone or iPod touch.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 02 Oct 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9793"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9793', 'show')">Apple Allows Developers to Talk about iPhone Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9793" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9793">Apple will no longer keep developers from discussing public aspects of the iPhone SDK and programming practices. The non-disclosure agreement had prevented developers from learning from one another about common problems, and from releasing public domain and open-source code.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 Oct 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9792"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9792', 'show')">The Return of AIM (in Beta)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9792" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9792">AOL, left for dead, releases a test version of an updated AOL Instant Messenger with tabbed sessions, animated icons, wallpaper, and custom emoticon sets.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9787" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9787">The extra controls you could enable by entering command-line instructions for Leopard's Screen Sharing program have been sheared off in Mac OS X 10.5.5, Macworld's Rob Griffiths notes.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 29 Sep 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9784"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9784', 'show')">Developers Could Turn Away from iPhone App Store</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9784" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9784">Apple continues to make terrible decisions about which apps may be sold in the App Store. If Apple isn't careful, developers might walk away - to Google Android or other platforms.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9783"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9783', 'show')">T-Mobile Introduces Branded Google Phone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9783" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9783">Despite Google's assurances last year that the company wasn't introducing a GPhone, the G1 handset announced by T-Mobile using the search giant-sponsored Android smartphone platform has Google emblazoned on the back. The G1 could loosen Apple's grip on smartphones, but not quite yet.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9777"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9777', 'show')">Apple Recalls Supercool iPhone 3G USB Power Adapter</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9777" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9777">It's compact. It's cool. It's dangerous. So says Apple. The tiny USB power adapter for charging an iPhone 3G has blades that can break off and remain in an AC outlet. Apple advises you to stop using the adapter, and the company is replacing all of them.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9765"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9765', 'show')">Apple Executives' Settlement May End Backdating Saga</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9765" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9765">A preliminary settlement has been reached over lawsuits accusing Apple executives of various inappropriate acts related to the backdating of stock options. This may be the end, at last, of this ugly chapter in the company's financial history.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9761"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9761', 'show')">Amazon Launches Mac-Compatible Video on Demand</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9761" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9761">The media-selling giant finally supports Mac users with its digital video rental and purchase service (previously Amazon Unbox) through a browser-based Flash player.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9754"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9754', 'show')">Google Explains Its Forthcoming Web Browser with Comics</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9754" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9754">Google says it has a vastly improved architecture for its new Chrome Web browser, improving speed, reliability, and security. They decided to hire comic artist Scott McCloud - author of books on explaining comics - to explain their new technology.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->