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Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: scottydawg on October 26, 2006, 02:14:00 PM
Firefox 2.0 has a built-in spell checker! :O

:D :D :D
Title: Re: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Clifra Jones on October 26, 2006, 02:17:11 PM
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Originally posted by scottydawg
Firefox 2.0 has a built-in spell checker! :O

:D :D :D


So does the google toolbar.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: scottydawg on October 26, 2006, 02:24:12 PM
Really? I've been using it forever, never noticed it.

Just noticed little red underlines on my made-up words since I upgraded to 2.0 this morning.

like frimple, slaptabulous and chilitastic.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: daddog on October 26, 2006, 02:29:31 PM
Oh ya. He is not the only one that can use that! :)
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Torcher on October 26, 2006, 02:43:56 PM
And here after reading your subject line I thought you were going to say you saved money with Geico.:huh
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: scottydawg on October 26, 2006, 02:45:06 PM
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Originally posted by Torcher
And here after reading your subject line I thought you were going to say you saved money with Geico.:huh


I was tempted.  Either that or that I had found a way to please everyone and that I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Roscoroo on October 26, 2006, 02:46:31 PM
Yea its cool ... but theres a catch

We're the Hell is the File/ word to edit out that was added to the dictionary thats WRONG !!!!  ((No I didnt do it ... Mrs Roo Did it )) i've looked thru the dictionary files in the Mozilla folder and its not there ...

the mystery commences :noid
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: scottydawg on October 26, 2006, 02:58:20 PM
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
Yea its cool ... but theres a catch

We're the Hell is the File/ word to edit out that was added to the dictionary thats WRONG !!!!  ((No I didnt do it ... Mrs Roo Did it )) i've looked thru the dictionary files in the Mozilla folder and its not there ...

the mystery commences :noid


C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\4tasfveq.default\persdict.dat

the 4tasfveq.default might be random, but it's the only directory under Profiles in my installation.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Roscoroo on October 26, 2006, 03:17:01 PM
Woo hoo thats it !!!  :aok
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: hubsonfire on October 26, 2006, 03:21:48 PM
What's sad is, right now HT is googling "fiarfox", "spelchexor" and "gugle tulebarr", and muttering "These clowns are yanking my chain".

;)
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Stang on October 26, 2006, 03:22:18 PM
LOL.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: JB88 on October 26, 2006, 03:23:08 PM
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Originally posted by hubsonfire
What's sad is, right now HT is googling "fiarfox", "spelchexor" and "gugle tulebarr", and muttering "These clowns are yanking my chain".

;)




sig material.


:rofl
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: hitech on November 03, 2006, 12:11:49 PM
Just installed it, At last a spell checker easy for me to use.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: SkyRock on November 03, 2006, 12:15:51 PM
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Originally posted by hubsonfire
What's sad is, right now HT is googling "fiarfox", "spelchexor" and "gugle tulebarr", and muttering "These clowns are yanking my chain".

;)
LMAO!:rofl
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Mr No Name on November 03, 2006, 12:20:53 PM
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Originally posted by hitech
Just installed it, At last a spell checker easy for me to use.


Congrats Sir!  (this will save me a little time scratching my head saying WTF???)
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Mr No Name on November 03, 2006, 12:21:38 PM
LMAO Hubs!
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: uberhun on November 03, 2006, 12:27:37 PM
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Originally posted by hitech
Just installed it, At last a spell checker easy for me to use.


About time:aok
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Kermit de frog on November 03, 2006, 12:38:32 PM
:rofl
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: 68Ripper on November 03, 2006, 01:13:40 PM
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Originally posted by hitech
Just installed it, At last a spell checker easy for me to use.


oh no !!! It will never be the same!!!

 :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: NoBaddy on November 03, 2006, 02:41:35 PM
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Originally posted by hitech
Just installed it, At last a spell checker easy for me to use.


Looking forward to the next Con. I'm sure Skuzzy will have a nice story about your box melting down from spellchecker overload. :D
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Major Biggles on November 03, 2006, 02:51:33 PM
LOL, pure genius hub :lol
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: slimm50 on November 03, 2006, 03:45:29 PM
Heh...HT, this grief you get must be one of those unadvertised extras people get with their subscription.


Oh, wait....I'm not paying anything. So, I guess it's an unadvertised extra....period!
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: hitech on November 03, 2006, 05:03:03 PM
tings our wha tey is
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: FBBone on November 03, 2006, 05:34:48 PM
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Originally posted by hitech
tings our wha tey is


 :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: plank on November 03, 2006, 08:59:50 PM
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Originally posted by hitech
Just installed it, At last a spell checker easy for me to use.



Was the dictionary not user friendly? :D
Title: Re: Re: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: DREDIOCK on November 03, 2006, 10:30:49 PM
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Originally posted by Clifra Jones
So does the google toolbar.


Yea but Firefox doesnt add another proccess to your list of running processes untill your using it for surfing.

I stay away form toolbars of any sort
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: DREDIOCK on November 03, 2006, 10:34:13 PM
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Originally posted by plank
Was the dictionary not user friendly? :D


Dictionary is for definitions. not spelling.
Think about it. You typically need to know how to spell a word just to look it up in the dictionary ;)
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: fuzeman on November 03, 2006, 11:00:44 PM
I always thought the mistakes were intentional so you would know if someone steals your material.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: volvo744 on November 04, 2006, 06:02:25 AM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Dictionary is for definitions. not spelling.
Think about it. You typically need to know how to spell a word just to look it up in the dictionary ;)


Apparently you are to young to have been told by your parents, when THEY didn't know how to spell it, to "go look it up" because that is the same thing I always thought, too. "How?" :huh

That said, if people need spellchecker as much as it appears here and most places I have seen, I am saddened by the state of it. My spellchecker took 12 years to install, is nearly flawless, and has a built in feature that instinctively tracks down the correct spelling when there is a question. It must not be available anymore, which is too bad, as it is a great program, especially taking into account the constant free upgrades available daily.

Do I make mistakes? Of course, we all do, especially when typing like I do, looking at the keys not the screen. I try to go back and correct the mistakes, though. Spellchecker is yet another reason education has taken a failed turn; because too many people rely upon it instead of referring to it.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Max on November 04, 2006, 07:18:50 AM
Quote
Originally posted by hubsonfire
What's sad is, right now HT is googling "fiarfox", "spelchexor" and "gugle tulebarr", and muttering "These clowns are yanking my chain".

;)


Hubs, you and Ball really need to pitch a comedy show to the networks :aok
Title: speel cheecker
Post by: impala08 on November 04, 2006, 08:21:11 AM
:D   Yeay Anew speel cheecker for th to sue. :aok
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: DREDIOCK on November 04, 2006, 11:38:02 AM
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Originally posted by volvo744
Apparently you are to young to have been told by your parents, when THEY didn't know how to spell it, to "go look it up" because that is the same thing I always thought, too. "How?" :huh

 


Dunno. Matter of pespective I guess.

is 45 too young? LOL

But yea. I used to be told the same thing.
I gave them the same responce too ;)
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: hitech on November 04, 2006, 02:24:37 PM
volvo744: I do not believe you really understand how it is impossible for some of us to spell correctly.

To put it in a perspective you can understand, in my first sentence I had 6 misspellings, none of which I am able to spell correctly. I could look them up, but tomorrow I would still not be able to spell them correctly. So for me to write that one sentence correctly would take at least 5 minutes of checking a dictionary.

Remember the 20 words you had on your spelling test each week? For me to get passing grade required me to spend 3 hours the morning of the spelling test going over the words.  If i took the test again 1 week later, there was no way I could again pass.

Not griping, just things are what they are.

HiTech
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: ghi on November 04, 2006, 02:48:22 PM
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Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: FLS on November 04, 2006, 03:30:00 PM
Wrrds I kan spel
n rimes I kan maul
but coading a flyte sim
I kan't do at all

If HiTech cood spel
but not coad so well
we'd be oot of luk
our flyte sim mite suk

Shur speelchk is fine
if you so inklyn
to worry bout stuf
thet in kontext is fluf

When tym is what's shrt
then speling may suffor
and der isnt much room
in the AH text buffr

U no wat I meen
we comunecate
godd speeling is xtra
it's ideas dat rate
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: jpeg on November 04, 2006, 03:41:09 PM
Quote
Originally posted by volvo744
Apparently you are to young to have been told by your parents, when THEY didn't know how to spell it, to "go look it up" because that is the same thing I always thought, too. "How?" :huh

That said, if people need spellchecker as much as it appears here and most places I have seen, I am saddened by the state of it. My spellchecker took 12 years to install, is nearly flawless, and has a built in feature that instinctively tracks down the correct spelling when there is a question. It must not be available anymore, which is too bad, as it is a great program, especially taking into account the constant free upgrades available daily.

Do I make mistakes? Of course, we all do, especially when typing like I do, looking at the keys not the screen. I try to go back and correct the mistakes, though. Spellchecker is yet another reason education has taken a failed turn; because too many people rely upon it instead of referring to it.


Too bad there aren't grammar checkers in toolbars or browsers. There are way too many people using words such as to instead of too or your instead of you're among others.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Lye-El on November 04, 2006, 04:23:53 PM
Quote
Originally posted by jpeg
There are way too many people using words such as to instead of too or your instead of you're among others.


Yer kiddin' wright?
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: scottydawg on November 04, 2006, 04:30:28 PM
HiTech,

I hope you don't infer from my original post that I was making fun of you for your spelling in any way, like some of these dingleberries are.  I wasn't.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on November 04, 2006, 07:52:43 PM
Some people stutter when they talk, but can sing like angels.

HT stutters when he types.  As long as he can still write stuff what makes my cartoon airplanes fly, I'm not complaining.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Dichotomy on November 04, 2006, 09:06:12 PM
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Originally posted by hubsonfire
What's sad is, right now HT is googling "fiarfox", "spelchexor" and "gugle tulebarr", and muttering "These clowns are yanking my chain".

;)


there is now beer, snot, and something unidentified, all over my screen and keyboard.  But my sinuses are clear for the first time in a week.

Thank you sir Hubs  :rofl
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: JB88 on November 05, 2006, 04:15:31 AM
Quote
Originally posted by FLS
Wrrds I kan spel
n rimes I kan maul
but coading a flyte sim
I kan't do at all

If HiTech cood spel
but not coad so well
we'd be oot of luk
our flyte sim mite suk

Shur speelchk is fine
if you so inklyn
to worry bout stuf
thet in kontext is fluf

When tym is what's shrt
then speling may suffor
and der isnt much room
in the AH text buffr

U no wat I meen
we comunecate
godd speeling is xtra
it's ideas dat rate



-

:D
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: hitech on November 05, 2006, 08:57:34 AM
scottydawg: Didn't think you were when you posted, but if you had I would not have taken offense. Even I make fun of my spelling.
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Dace on November 05, 2006, 09:01:19 AM
Quote
Originally posted by jpeg
Too bad there aren't grammar checkers in toolbars or browsers. There are way too many people using words such as to instead of too or your instead of you're among others.



Pet peave- when people use "then" for "than" .
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: 68Ripper on November 05, 2006, 09:05:54 AM
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Originally posted by scottydawg
HiTech,

I hope you don't infer from my original post that I was making fun of you for your spelling in any way, like some of these dingleberries are.  I wasn't.


Well this dingleberry enjoyed dissing HT for incorrect spellings. Now you have gone and ruined our fun!!! :cry :cry
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: Max on November 05, 2006, 10:15:10 AM
Sadly, an era has ended. :cry

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=2225775#post2225775
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: BansheCH on November 05, 2006, 10:22:13 AM
Quote
Originally posted by hitech
I do not believe you really understand how it is impossible for some of us to spell correctly.

To put it in a perspective you can understand, in my first sentence I had 6 misspellings, none of which I am able to spell correctly. I could look them up, but tomorrow I would still not be able to spell them correctly. So for me to write that one sentence correctly would take at least 5 minutes of checking a dictionary.

Remember the 20 words you had on your spelling test each week? For me to get passing grade required me to spend 3 hours the morning of the spelling test going over the words.  If i took the test again 1 week later, there was no way I could again pass.

Not griping, just things are what they are.

HiTech



Hey boss ummmm did you have to goto summer skool?


hehehe
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: hitech on November 05, 2006, 10:27:27 AM
Sounds like you been there and done that, the answer is yes.

HiTech
Title: Hey HiTech! Great news!
Post by: BansheCH on November 05, 2006, 10:30:14 AM
LoL Yes I have been there before.