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I already posted (in my looong diary post) that I’d like to turn off spell checking globally on Mac OS X. Googling didn’t really help - I found links that explained how to disable the spell checker service. But when doing like they tell, several applications complained that they couldn’t contact the spell checker service (via a dialog box) which is even more annoying than the red lines under words. In fact, Camino prompted me like “could not contact spell checker [OK]” for EVERY WORD I wrote, which I found out when using a pastebin service 
So, here’s my sweet solution. How it works: It tells the spell checker that it should check spelling, but for NO language. It works like deleting all the NSLanguages parameters in its Info.plist. If you know what you’re doing, you can edit /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Info.plist yourself (NSLanguages is an array in Services » Item 1 – or use my edited Info.plist, see paragraph below) - if not, I’ll assist you a little bit.
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Hallo mal wieder.
<kalauer>Wie ihr ja alle wisst, trinke ich gerne Kaffee. Wenn ich aber auf dem Macintosh Anwendungen entwickle, darf’s auch gerne mal Kakao sein. </kalauer>
Naja, im Ernst. Gestern wurde ja mit den neuen iPod Nanos auch iTunes in der Version 8.0 veröffentlicht. Ich hatte mich ja schon drauf gefreut und es mir gleich heruntergeladen, [...]
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I collected information about funny or confusing Mac OS X details, features, bugs and so on in a diary-like form in Stickies.app. Now it’s time to make this public.
2008-05-27
Spotlight: folder1/folderx/filename.txt and folder2/folderx/filename.txt appear to be in folder1 and folder2, not in folder1/folderx and folder2/folderx. Left hand: useful, right hand: confusing.
Proper English: You’ll sure have [...]
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Hi, dearest friends of Synchronizing!
I’ve now got an invitation for a service I have known for some time: Dropbox. With Dropbox, you can set up a directory for syncing, which is then synced to their server and over several computers. It’s similar to .Mac MobileMe. – If you like an invitation, comment here. I’ve only got [...]
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Hi!
This day … will stay in your minds for ages. Why? Because it’s my birthday.
No, seriously, I just felt like blogging about getting older. Do what you like with this post, but I liked the idea.
So long, Jannis.
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Ich verlinke hierbei auf die Wortfabrik, in der ich auch blogge.
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Hi!
Vor einiger Zeit bat mich ein Bekannter, fuer ihn eine Kleinigkeit (ein scrollendes Menue) in Javascript zu implementieren. Bis dahin waren meine Javascript-Kenntnisse nicht besonders ausgepraegt. Im Rahmen dessen hab ich einiges dazugelernt, teilweise durch Code-Lesen oder SELFHTML.
Was mir allerdings in #selfhtml im IRC empfohlen wurde, war ein sehr huebsches Tutorial nahmens “Eloquent JavaScript”. Das [...]
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I hope, you all saw the article about the “telecom package”. That’s horrible I think. I recommend all of you reading the article. Contact your MEPs if possible and blog about it. This may never happen.
Regards, Jannis.
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Hi there…
Today, as the european soccer championship is over (luckily), I want to lose a word or two on it, too.
As you might have noticed, those soccer players spit out on the ground very often during or after games (at least they did very often in the ten minutes I looked at the television). Firstly, [...]
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Seid gegruesst, werte Leser meines Weblogs.
Heute moechte ich ein … ein wenig gesellschafts- und ein wenig unternehmenskritisches Thema behandeln. Es ist naemlich so, dass wir in den letzten Tagen zum allseits bekannten Internetanbieter 1&1 gewechselt sind, und dass dieser Wechsel (der in der Tat noch nicht abgeschlossen ist) nicht sehr erfreulich war.
Ich bezweifle nicht, dass [...]
