I have a Blackberry and a student named Mo. It autocorrects to Month. I cannot make it stop. He is even in my address book as Month. It is super annoying.
Harmony: Somebody remembered to pick me up the sweetest unicorn. Guess someone was feeling guilty for standing me up in tenth grade. Brad: What? Had to get her something. She sired me. Peaches: Sire-whipped.
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Sophia Brooks - Sep 14, 2011 8:58:19 am PDT #17842 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Liese S. - Sep 14, 2011 9:54:33 am PDT #17843 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Also, as evidenced over in Gaming, the thing I can't figure out in Android is capitalization autocorrect. In general, I really like that when I lay down a period or at the start of a post it auto capitalizes for me. But there are lots of times when I don't want it too, like, for example, when I'm trying to use quick edit formatting! Or when I use honorifics. Or abbreviations.
Right now I can't figure out how to undo the cap. Anyone know?
I did finally figure out where my Droid's shift lock was, though. I was all, hey, LED I've never seen before!
Jon B. - Sep 14, 2011 10:06:34 am PDT #17844 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
On my android phone, I get around the auto-capitalization by typing the letter a second time and then backspacing and deleting the first letter. Which is insane, but I don't know how else to do it.
Liese S. - Sep 14, 2011 10:15:41 am PDT #17845 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, that's a good idea. Stupid to have to, but right now, I don't even have a workaround.
Liese S. - Sep 14, 2011 10:17:48 am PDT #17846 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Although, I will say, I'm sure you all appreciate that I have moved on from my old phone in that we have passed the two years of wrongly faced smart quotes as apostrophes! And personally, I am happy to no longer have to type <br>& nbsp;<br> all the time.
zuisa - Sep 14, 2011 10:21:13 am PDT #17847 of 25501
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Does anyone else with an iPhone ever just.. lose service? In a place where there is service?
It's been happening to me for a couple weeks. Sometimes I'll just lose all signal and it will say 'searching' or 'no signal' for hours at a time. And then other times it'll SAY that I have full service, but messages won't send.
I tried doing a network reset and a setting reset, but it didn't seem to help. I am not sure if it is a problem with the phone, or with AT&T?
Jon B. - Sep 14, 2011 10:31:35 am PDT #17848 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm sure you all appreciate that I have moved on from my old phone in that we have passed the two years of wrongly faced smart quotes as apostrophes!
I occasionally see that on FB and think, "Oh, that's just like Liese!"
le nubian - Sep 14, 2011 10:52:06 am PDT #17849 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Zuisa,
Yes. I usually fix this by putting my phone in airplane mode then turning it back on. Sometimes, I have to do a hard reset to get my iPhone back in business. I need to do a clean reset and get back to basics with my iPhone, but that will take hours. It isn't syncing right for me anymore.
Liese S. - Sep 14, 2011 11:05:50 am PDT #17850 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I occasionally see that on FB and think, "Oh, that's just like Liese!"
I contemplated moving to a style of writing that contained no contractions. But I was too lazy. But it's over now! I can contract all I want!
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2011 6:58:04 am PDT #17851 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mostly I've been reading about Windows 8 in the context of tablets (I'm a little tablet crazy right now, because I already shopped, thank you). But I did notice this on it, which is changing things:
Microsoft says that "to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free". That means that if you launch the browser from the Metro start screen, you won't be able to use Flash or other plug-ins on any of your sites. However, if you launch it from the traditional desktop, you'll still have your Flash. You can read more about Microsoft's decision at their blog, linked below.
iPads are the most prevalent tablet, Android the most prevalent mobile platform, but Windows 8 will be everywhere because it's everywhere. So when they start pushing HTML 5 and pushing out Flash, more things will change.