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Use text macros on your iPhone and iPad with iOS 5

Typing long email addresses, complex names or standard messages is a breeze with the new Shortcuts feature on iOS 5. Here’s how to put Shortcuts to work for you.

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Check your spelling in Māori

Maori placenames are marked as potentially incorrect.

Kiwis now have a free spellchecker they can use that will recognise New Zealand placenames and check spelling in Māori. Here’s what it is and how to get it.

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Choose your language with care or spellcheck may bite

Set your Autocorrect Language in System Preferences.

Some of us can be quite pedantic about spelling: is it ‘color’ or ‘colour’ for example? If your Mac is constantly bugging you about your (correct) spelling then perhaps you need to tune up your spellcheck settings. Guest author Alan Macdougall brings us an extremely handy Tip.

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Lions don’t save – or do they?

OS X Lion has done away with saving — more or less. After saving a document the first time you don’t need to save again. Or that’s the theory, anyway, because not all apps offer this new feature. Here’s what’s going on.

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