Word Spell Check

So. I typed the word "northeastern" into a document in word, and it underlines it in red. Misspelled. What are the options? Well, there's a few, but the best option is "north eastern". So, just for a lark, I select it. And it underlines it in green, meaning a grammatical or other error. So I click to see what it suggests: northeastern. 

Great. Thanks for the advice. I note Safari has no problems with northeastern or north eastern. 

Yes, this is the moment I've been waiting for all my life

This is it. You can't get much more Mac and Canadian than this: the Tim Hortons Locator for the iPhone. 

Okay, so I don't have an iPhone (no Rogers here) and I can't stand coffee, so this one's a complete fail for me personally, but you can't fault it for Canadian content.... It does work with the iPod Touch, but won't take advantage of the GPS....

It's free. Try it out. If you like coffee. And Like Timmy Ho's. 

Daily Reading: Stupid Smart Drives

Macworld has a look at USB Smart drives, and the way they, you know, don't actually work with macs. And a solution. Using Windows. 

Off for a week. This might be the last post for a while....

Okay, I laughed out loud...

...especially at the first one....

Weird Dream

So....

Remember how  a couple day I made a crack about maybe I should have been blogging about Steve's health (sorry, Jobs, not Balmer), cuz maybe he'd call me and yell at me, too? Well that one line played into a rather long and detailed dream where I was actually invited to Cupertino for a one on one interview with Jobs. Except there was always someone else there....

In the dream, I talked with Steve and he explained in great detail what was up (which was basically just a rehash of all the speculation that I've read over the last week, sorry, no profound insights there). Then, somehow, the editor at the company newsletter (photocopied on lime green copy paper, natch) got hold of the story, and ran with it, and Steve called me to yell at me for leaking the story, and I had to convince him that why would I leak confidential information to a company zine when I could sell it for a couple million to any major newspaper in the country? I don't think he believed me, but he began to point out the kid's program, at which point he was mobbed by a bunch of five-year-olds as "Uncle Steve", and I realized I was in grade school and didn't have enough money to buy lunch that day, so I hid out in the alcove above the stairs, and it wasn't Cupertino at all, but my old school in Saskatchewan....

Something you probably didn't know about the Apple Campus that I learned in my dream is that there is there is a giant room full of laundry equipment where people go to wash their clothes. That they're wearing. So they sit around for a couple hours every day at work, naked, as they wait for their laundry to dry.

Apple Finally Fixes Fatal Flaw For Free. Finally.

The DNS flaw that you've been hearing so much about lately? (What do you mean you haven't heard of it. It's the DNS flaw...thingy. You know, the wicked, nasty thing that allows hackers to enter your system and zombies to eat your brains. 

Anyway. Apple has finally patched it. So you can go back to downloading strange and malicious files from online again. Have fun. 

So Long, Scott

Scott McNulty is leaving TUAW, one of my favouritist sources for Mac news, opinions, and wildly speculative rumour mongering.

In other news, TUAW *still* hasn't got back to me regarding that application I sent them a couple months ago.... Gruber (who is one of the few Mac pundits who you can refer to by one name and people know who you mean) calls McNulty "Far and Away" their best writer, which I wouldn't say exactly (especially if they ever get back to me about that job....), but he has been one of their most reliable, interesting writers. It was he (I've discovered) who talked about that neat Safari Tab Trick that I completely ignored until discovering it quite by accident a couple days ago (like, two. On tip tuesday.)

So so long Scott, and we'll...probably not miss you. As you say, it is pretty easy to keep tabs of you if we want to....