I am sitting in Caffè Nero trying to test out a new iPhone app - SpellChecker.
It has its own dictionary that it refers to as you type. However, it can also access a range of other iPhone dictionaries. I have mine linked to the very impressive (but expensive) Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Once you have finished typing in SpellChecker you simply press an icon and the program produces a list of possible words to replace the alternatives that it has previously identified. And, of course, you can tell the program to Skip or Learn your unique spelling or Undo any replacement.
Once you are happy with your text it can be directly exported to your Mail or Messaging or Twitter program, or to Facebook, or to the clipboard for use in any text application. Continue Reading »
Some time ago I wrote about a couple of applications that were 
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I’ve been a fan of Gmail for some time. I love its powerful spam filter which seems so much more effective than anything else I have come across, and the seemingly endless capacity to store my mail and make it available for search is really useful for me when running a small business and needing to keep in contact with a large customer base. Despite my contentment, two recent developments have enhanced my Gmail experience. 
Well … Vlingo!
There is a lot of loss around. And I’m not just referring to people mourning the loss of a loved person. When someone is bereaved you would expect the mourning. It is natural and understandable. But apart from the loss of human beings, there are many other kinds of losses, and many people in mourning - though few of them would understand their feelings and turmoil as ‘grief’. We somehow want to preserve that label for ‘the big one’. (And some people, of course, would include the death of a pet in that category).
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Despite some £4m a year being spent on homeopathy, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee said today that using public money on the highly diluted remedies 
Here’s something. Imagine you live in a community where you are expected to pay into a fund that is used to meet various needs in the community - the upkeep of roads, salaries for nurses and teachers, and community hospitality, for example. Then it transpires that you are about to receive a visit from a dignitary, and custom dictates that you will be expected to meet his considerable costs - the travel and accommodation of his party, and his considerable security expenses, not to mention the disruption and strain on usual community services.
In 1968 the sociologist Peter Berger famously predicted that in the 21st century, religious believers would only be likely to be in small sects, huddled together to resist a worldwide secular culture. In 1710 Thomas Woolstan predicted that religion would be gone by 1900. And many other thinkers (Voltaire, Jefferson, Marx, Engels, Freud) have all anticipated the collapse of religious faith. To the delight of the faithful, and to the chagrin of the faithless, they have all been wrong.
