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Improving "My Updates"

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by jdclyde

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I like the My Updates page, and think it is cool to look over.

My complant is a simple one. Do not include ALL the newsletters I subscribe to, as that ends up taking most of the history.

For the 90 history, it goes ALL the way back to 7/12/06 (a day and a half) and at least HALF of that history is the newsletters.

Thank you for your prompt attention in tending to my every whim and desire! :D

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by gadgetgirl

thinking it was just MY 90 day history that had flipped out!

As for attending to your every whim and desire - you committed a cardinal sin there, jd.

You forgot to ask (again) for the spool cheeker....

(sorry, Jay, s'Friday!)

]:)

GG

by jdclyde

when I was thinking of being attended to.... ]:)

Of course, turn about is always fair play! :x

: ) X

by jdclyde

to elect NOT to list everytime a newsletter is sent to me? I get several everyday.

Just taking up space about something I don't need to see.

Thanks

by debuggist

1. How would you decide which newsletters should show up in your updates? Would you want to be able to include/exclude any of them?

2. Is this a feature that other users would like to have? I see a lot more requests for a spellchecker. ;)

by jdclyde

A spellchecking filter? :D

I do know that the "updates" section completely replaces the "history" section. Especially because of the history section listing EVERYsingle post in the same discussion, instead of just listing the discussion once.

If it was working better, I would bet more people would use it. There was talk about the history before, and why we don't use it.

So how about that spellchecker?

by Member 25348569

It serves to bolster our innate feelings of superiority when we get our post right without any external help.

Seriously (seriusly? why not?), although it would be nice, it would have to be one with a "shut the fcuk up, I don't want you, ever" button for those of us who aren't lucky enough to be able to leave the "u" out of any words that take our fancy.

I refuse to be forced into spelling the way they do in YOUR neighbourhood!

:D

by jdclyde

Thiunk ouf aull thue tiume youu wouuld sauve buy nout hauving tuo tyupe aull ouf thouuse unneccesaruy "u's" aull ouf theu tiume! :p

by j.lupo

is no spell checker. The Language component. After all American isn't the native language (written that is) in the cyber universe. I get it now. So TR can't create a spell checker cause it would have to deal with French, German, Indian, American, British, Italian, Japanese, etc (all the ones I didn't mention)

Oh shoot. We need it anyway!

by gadgetgirl

I think the main problem would be the spelling differences, but hey, I'm used to those (Novell preset to US spelling.....hit the ignore button most of the time!)

But even us people wot are good spellerers get a bit keyboard happy at times, 'specially when we're in a rush and speed typing fast as hell (before you ask: 76wpm) Also, brain fry sets in in my case, and I also have extreme problems going from an ergonomic keyboard to a flat (ordinary) one (can type gobbldygook no problem at all; according to others, it's hilarious to watch!)

So, all in all, it would probably be a nice help for me. It would also help deciphering Oz's posts, as well as jd's!!! :D

GG

by lawrephord5

subroutine macro if then else which style is the best the one that gets the job done perfectly ?

by jdclyde

As the cyber universe STARTED here, grew from here, and most importantly, most of the CNET business is done here.

While we tolerate Neil and his excessive use of the letter "u" in his attempt to wear out his keyboard, he is never really taken as more of a novelty! :D

by Member 25348569

but it probably won't.

"Tolerate", eh? That was very mean. I didn't say you [b]couldn't[/b] have a spell-checker, just that I didn't want your ex-colonial bad habits forced upon those of us who speak - and type - the purer form of the language. All I want is an off switch.

Let's face it, if anyone [b]needs[/b] a spell-checker - it's YOU!

by jaqui

for inclusion or exclusion.

I agree with jd that they aren't really needed.
I read the newsletters before coming here in the first place, so the notice is a waste of space.

by jaqui

after all, spell checkers are for people who can't remember anything, not for people that make their living by the power of their minds.

jd's harping on spellchecker is just cause he is saying he shouldn't be working where thought is required ;)

by jdclyde

I personally don't CARE if there is a speeel cheaker or not, because I am not the one that has to read my posts! :p

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Here are all your extra "u's" that I didn't have to use! ;\

by Member 25348569

Would continue to let you miss the 'e' out of gobbledygook...

Neil :D

Look, you can have a Geordie spellchecker. Jd SO NEEDS a US spellchecker. Hell, we can even try and get a spellchecker for Oz (I doubt we'll be successful).

But I just want to be able to turn it OFF!

I don't touch type and I'd reckon that I'm about 20wpm so it makes no never mind if I go back and correct it myself.

I'm not asking for much. My copy of Word knows better than to try and correct my grammar and spelling. I want TR to have the same decency to know that if I use the words "typogarphical error", I do it because I want to...

So there. :p

by jdclyde

What could possibly be better than to misspell something when you are talking about misspelling something? :D

~sigh~

by jdclyde

LEARN it! Hit the learn button or add to... and it will NEVER bother you again! :D

(unlike Neil! ;\ )

by j.lupo

make it an option that people can use, like in Outlook or Word where you spell check when you want to and not all the time. I certainly want to be able to misspell words when it is appropriate, I just don't want words I should have right to be wrong. :D

by Member 25348569

Yeah but for me to get the joke, you have to be someone who I think would normally spell it right!

Statistics said that it was a normal typo...

:(

Sorry, I hate ruining jokes.

by gadgetgirl

it won't learn.

I've tried.

But it's even hidden its' little learn button...

(something to do with the NHS rollout of Novell, years ago...)

I'm trying to learn Americanese.....honest.....I don't have to ask for as many translations as I used to....oh, that reminds me, I must ask Neil when the next NITS (tm) subscription is due....

:^0

GG

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