Comments on: Futility (Duck you, iPhone) http://www.egometry.com/tech/futility-duck-you-iphone/ cogito ergo stfu Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mark Johnson http://www.egometry.com/tech/futility-duck-you-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Mark Johnson Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:04:00 +0000 http://www.egometry.com/?p=706#comment-280 We made an app for dealing with the auto-correct silent censor when typing emails: Duck You Undo! When an auto-correction occurs a big toolbar pops up just above the keyboard, you can't miss it, and you can undo/redo the correction. You can also step through all the auto-corrections 1 by 1 before emailing. See demo vid atwww.markj.net/duckyou We made an app for dealing with the auto-correct silent censor when typing emails: Duck You Undo! When an auto-correction occurs a big toolbar pops up just above the keyboard, you can’t miss it, and you can undo/redo the correction. You can also step through all the auto-corrections 1 by 1 before emailing. See demo vid atwww.markj.net/duckyou

]]> By: Jonas http://www.egometry.com/tech/futility-duck-you-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Jonas Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:46:01 +0000 http://www.egometry.com/?p=706#comment-213 Duck/fuck/fucking is Apple's idea of the presumption of innocence. You see, when you write fuck, Apple assumes that you didn't actually mean such a heinous assault on the inbox of your friends, and that you were talking about some cute waterbirds. When you write "fucking" though, use of "ducking" is so rare that Apple considers this to be adequate probable cause and proceeds to hang you with your own words, you foul mouthed ass. What Steve hath made crooked let no man lay straight. Duck/fuck/fucking is Apple’s idea of the presumption of innocence. You see, when you write fuck, Apple assumes that you didn’t actually mean such a heinous assault on the inbox of your friends, and that you were talking about some cute waterbirds. When you write “fucking” though, use of “ducking” is so rare that Apple considers this to be adequate probable cause and proceeds to hang you with your own words, you foul mouthed ass.

What Steve hath made crooked let no man lay straight.

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