Reply to: This blackberry messaging system?

[Sysman]

You can change it in System Preferences-> Language and Text -> Edit List -> British English.

Then move it to the top of the list.

Thanks. I can't think how I missed that one.

Dictionary Application -> Preferences -> OED Dictionary & Thesaurus.

Stuck on Leopard on this system, so that's not there. I'll look at Snow Leopard when I get back to the office.

[DaveB]

The Spill Chucker Pome

Mandatory Mac user's comment:

We've had spell checking available for all apps for years. It shouldn't be an application specific feature

though unfortunately it's for Yank English

You can change it in System Preferences-> Language and Text -> Edit List -> British English.

Then move it to the top of the list.

Dictionary Application -> Preferences -> OED Dictionary & Thesaurus.

[Sysman]

I'm loving Google Chrome's instant spell-checker.

Works better now it's set to English (England) and not English (Yank).

So, there's no longer any excuse for such despicable spelling. Poor old will be redundant soon.

The Spill Chucker Pome

Mandatory Mac user's comment:

We've had spell checking available for all apps for years. It shouldn't be an application specific feature

though unfortunately it's for Yank English

[PAH]

On second thoughts, this 'anonymous' group can't be all bad:

Anonymous: We'll kill Facebook on bonfire night - Yahoo!


Might only trash facebook for a few hours but it'll be a few hours my cousins can't post photos of me pissed out of my skull at a recent birthday bash.

I know, my fault for being drunk but where are my human rights.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Is BBM also known as PIN to PIN communication on a Blackberry or is it a different thing altogether?

No idea what Pin to Pin communication is. Blackberry Messenger is clearly called "Blackberry Messenger" on a Blackberry

[Clippy]

That's how I understand it too. It seems to be the main thing that makes Blackberry's popular at the moment, which is why Apple have copied it. Seems a bit odd to me as I can't remember the last time I had to pay for a text message, they're usually included now aren't they?

Is BBM also known as PIN to PIN communication on a Blackberry or is it a different thing altogether?

[Churchill]

I'm loving Google Chrome's instant spell-checker.

Works better now it's set to English (England) and not English (Yank).

So, there's no longer any excuse for such despicable spelling. Poor old will be redundant soon.

There will always be a place for poor old Fleety!

[DaveB]

I'm loving Google Chrome's instant spell-checker.

Works better now it's set to English (England) and not English (Yank).

So, there's no longer any excuse for such despicable spelling. Poor old will be redundant soon.

Sadly I'm stuck with Client Co.'s dodgy IE6 install

[PAH]

I'm loving Google Chrome's instant spell-checker.

Works better now it's set to English (England) and not English (Yank).

So, there's no longer any excuse for such despicable spelling. Poor old will be redundant soon.

[DaveB]

On the bright side, you only misspelled it the first time

[NickFitz]

EDIT: The word anonymous appears far too many times in this post.

On the bright side, you only misspelled it the first time

[DaveB]

Seems dodgy that this 'anonymous' group are trying to restrict access to RM's logs.

If they really are worried about blanket prosecution without checking the evidence of the actual message content, instead focusing on the location the message was sent from (determined much the same way they determine mobile call locations), I expect journos and TV crew possessing blackberries who were in the vicinity would soon complain through their media channels if they were included in such an indiscriminate catch.

Could it be this 'anonymous' group are worried as they too use blackberries for field comms so don't want their secrets uncovered?

Techncally they arn't part of Annonymous.

They call themselves TeamPoison (except with the usual dodgy 133t spelling) and until recently were in open disagrement with Anonymous in terms of what they think Anonymous as a whole should be doing. They only recently agreed a "ceasefire" and are now nominally under the Anonymous umbrella.

The RIM defacement, and thats pretty much all it amounted to, was a TeamPoison effort and not directly connected to Anonymous, athough at least some of Anonymous problably new it was going to happen.


EDIT: The word anonymous appears far too many times in this post.

[Churchill]

If you have ever used BBM you would know that texting is now becoming obsolete. The features you get with BBM make texting look like it was from the stone ages. If you have ever used whatsap then you will have some idea of what BBM is although BBM is many levels ahead of whatsap. Add to that what the previous posted said regarding international messages and you realise how powerful a communication tool it is.

WHS, plus the fact that there is no guarantee that an SMS will get to its recipient. The chances are that it will but there's no guarantee.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

That's how I understand it too. It seems to be the main thing that makes Blackberry's popular at the moment, which is why Apple have copied it. Seems a bit odd to me as I can't remember the last time I had to pay for a text message, they're usually included now aren't they?

If you have ever used BBM you would know that texting is now becoming obsolete. The features you get with BBM make texting look like it was from the stone ages. If you have ever used whatsap then you will have some idea of what BBM is although BBM is many levels ahead of whatsap. Add to that what the previous posted said regarding international messages and you realise how powerful a communication tool it is.

[NickFitz]

Seems a bit odd to me as I can't remember the last time I had to pay for a text message, they're usually included now aren't they?

In the UK, yes, but the mobile operators' business model is different in other countries - for example, in the US you pay to receive calls (or at least you used to). AFAIK text messages can be quite pricey in the US.