Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger
How to write a date
2007-12-29 07:46 AM
Back in elementary school, we learned to write
dates by putting the month, then the day, then the
year. That date form works just fine for things
like letters, and although it was a little
inconvenient, it works just fine for hand-sorting
things like checks. But it is terrible for sorting
things by date on a computer.
While many things can best be sorted by a title, many items that we store on our computer work best by date. For example, each time I buy something on the Internet, pay a bill, or receive a password, I make a pdf of the document and store them is a folder that I call Passwords and Receipts.
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While many things can best be sorted by a title, many items that we store on our computer work best by date. For example, each time I buy something on the Internet, pay a bill, or receive a password, I make a pdf of the document and store them is a folder that I call Passwords and Receipts.
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Checking your spelling
2007-11-30 10:33 PM
One of the really nice features of Mac OS X is the
system-wide dictionary that is available in all
applications that are written in Cocoa, Apple
Inc.'s programming environment for programming.
For you, the end user it means that when you make a spelling error, the same database is used to check the spelling of a word. This means when you add a word to your user dictionary in an application such as Mail, that same user dictionary is used to check the spelling of the same word in TextEdit, Pages, Keynote and a wide variety of third party applications.
For example, each time I type my last name, Fauquet, it is underlined with red dots as shown in the illustration below. Read More...
For you, the end user it means that when you make a spelling error, the same database is used to check the spelling of a word. This means when you add a word to your user dictionary in an application such as Mail, that same user dictionary is used to check the spelling of the same word in TextEdit, Pages, Keynote and a wide variety of third party applications.
For example, each time I type my last name, Fauquet, it is underlined with red dots as shown in the illustration below. Read More...