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		<title>Wher iz the Diktionary?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hisham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until April 2005, some applications provided a dictionary, but each had its own.  Then Mac OS 10.4 Tiger was introduced and included a system-wide dictionary: teach it the word &#8220;Hisham&#8221; in Mail, for example, and all the other Mac programs now knew that Hisham is not a mistake (though some friends might disagree!)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Until April 2005, some applications provided a dictionary, but each had its own.  Then Mac OS 10.4 Tiger was introduced and included a system-wide dictionary: teach it the word &#8220;Hisham&#8221; in Mail, for example, and all the other Mac programs now knew that Hisham is not a mistake (though some friends might disagree!)</p>
<p>I thought that Firefox was the only Mac app to still provide its own dictionary instead of taking advantage of the Mac&#8217;s built-in one, but I found a worse app this week: it neither uses the built-in one nor provides its own.  The developers suggest that you &#8220;Take the time to copy edit your work so that you can avoid embarrassing typos&#8230;&#8221;:</p>
<p><img src="http://curiouschap.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/itunes_app_review-1.png" height="321" width="596" border="0" hspace="10" vspace="0" alt="Writing an App Review in iITunes" title="Writing an App Review in iITunes" /></p>
<p>In essence, you need to type your text in another app, then copy and paste it.  And not just to have your work spell-checked: this app&#8217;s edit field is not resizable &#8212; a very un-Mac experience.  You don&#8217;t have to type long before it becomes a chore.</p>
<p>Yes, you probably realized it by now: the guilty app is Apple&#8217;s own iTunes.  iTunes has always had two faces.  The nice, Mac-like one is fast and feels, well, like a Mac.  The bad face is the iTunes store part of the program that&#8217;s built using WebKit.  But this hardly excuses iTunes: Safari too uses WebKit but feels a lot zippier, and yes, supports the built-in dictionary. </p>
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