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If you’re running OS X, try this: open TextEdit, type “knowledgable” (yes, it’s misspelled on purpose), highlight it, then right-click (or Ctrl-click) it and check your suggested proper spellings. Is knswledgable in there?

The “word” is in OS X’s spelling database for some reason. It’s not recognized by Dictionary.app.

For you people with iPhones, it’s in your iPhone’s spelling checker as well.

The More You Knsw.

Courtesy Ars Technica.

I can tell today’s going to be a day filled with bitching about Leopard…

I use Vienna to read RSS feeds. When I’m not reading feeds, I hit Apple-H to hide the window instead of minimizing it.

At least, I used to when I was running Tiger, because it doesn’t work in Leopard. I can hide Safari just fine. Vienna, no go. The ‘Vienna’ menu lights up briefly, but the window doesn’t get hidden. Even selecting ‘Hide Vienna’ from the ‘Vienna’ menu doesn’t do anything.

I installed Leopard today. Here’s what I don’t like so far:

1. The Apple logo and spotlight icon in the top left and top right corners, respectively, are black and not blue. Even if you go with the blue colour scheme, they stay black.
2. VirtueDesktops (whose site is down) doesn’t run up because of an error that reads “unsafe use of @executable_path in /Applications/VirtueDesktops.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtueDesktops with setuid binary”. Now I’m forced to use Apple’s Spaces, which is much less customizable and much more shitty.
3. The damned Dock. I don’t want the black background on mine, I want it unobtrusive.
4. …and something called DockSyncClient keeps crashing every 15 minutes. I’ve sent three reports to Apple, hopefully they’ll fix whatever’s causing it to crash. Annoying as hell.

You early iPhone adopters don’t need to pull all your hair out. Uncle Steve has listened to your cries that dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 2 months after release was unfair:

Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple’s website next week. Stay tuned.

There you go. Now you can go get an iPod shuffle or some software or something.

I am now fully convinced that Steve Jobs could shit on stage and the Apple fanboys would eat it up with a brushed metal iSpoon.

I came to this realization after reading the coverage of the “special event” that happened today. Steve Jobs announced that if you want a ringtone from a song on your iPhone you have to buy it first from the iTunes Music Store for 99 cents, then pay another 99 cents to get it converted into a ringtone. Isn’t that just awesome? Paying twice for the same song?

It’s awesome for Apple’s shareholders. Sucks complete ass for people who have to pay for this drek.

The iPod nano got uglified. Shorter, fatter, uglier. Of course it’ll sell like hotcakes.

The iPhone got its phone ripped out, resulting in the “iPod touch”. Never could have seen that coming. Why didn’t they give the “touch” interface to the iPod classic? Because that’ll come in November, just in time for holiday shopping.

Oh, and you poor schleps that bought an iPhone last week? Steve Jobs would like to say “thanks for your money, asshole” because they just dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone by $200. And eliminated the 4GB iPhone. And people say that Apple overprices their products…