#FF00AA

While writing in TextEdit or Twitter for Mac we noticed Lion detects wrong spelling and displays an iOS-like tiny popup with the suggested correction. You can select it with your mouse, or hit the space bar to accept it and keep typing. Again, like on iOS.

Oh god. There better be a systemwide preference to turn that off; it’s annoying enough when some apps don’t remember that you’ve disabled “Check Spelling While Typing”; if Lion starts replacing words without my consent, the Mac is going to fly through the window.

 

On a similar note, if you need to type in accented letters but you don’t have a physical keyboard that supports them, you can press and hold down a vocal and choose from a popup your accented letter of choice.

Now that’s an interesting idea. Thankfully, I can’t remember the last time I needed to keep pressing a vowel key in order to repeat iiiiiiiit. (Don’t know if I’m happy or annoyed that the extended selection pop-up is half-filling the need for an OS X version of Unicode.)