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  • Blizzard misspells "Arthus" in Wrath's box

    by 
    Adam Holisky
    Adam Holisky
    12.13.2008

    In the product catalog that comes with Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard misspells Arthas as "Arthus" on page six. It's pictured above for those of you not digging through your stuff to grab the catalog and see for yourself.I'm not going to criticize the folks at Blizzard for making a spelling mistake. God only knows that I've made a number of them myself. But usually I do them without an editor or reviewer. But that's just me. I don't know enough about the situation at Blizzard to really comment otherwise.None the less there it is, and you're free to make whatever assumptions you may make about it.Thanks to Knuxx and Taeous for the picture and tip.

  • Misspelling is faster on the iPhone

    by 
    Mike Schramm
    Mike Schramm
    09.08.2008

    I'm not sure that I quite agree with this in the wider scheme of things, but these examples are hard to argue with -- apparently it's easier and faster to just misspell words on your iPhone than to take the time to type them out in full. "We're," for example, is usually six hits on the iPhone's keyboard -- four for the letters, and one to shift to punctuation and another to punch in the apostrophe. But if you type "Weree," just five hits, Apple's little corrector will fix it for you, and you can keep on writing.Normally, the little corrections made by the iPhone are more frustrating than anything else, but in this case, it could be a benefit -- as long as you remember to misspell all the words with apostrophes while typing. Hopefully, any habits incurred while trying to save time on the iPhone won't translate into anything else you happen to write -- weree not responsible for any mistakes that might get made.[via MacBytes]

  • How misspelling might get you keylogged

    by 
    Robin Torres
    Robin Torres
    05.01.2008

    There have been a lot of scares recently about AddOns having keyloggers in them. For the most part, it turned out to be ads on the sites that were the problem. And now we have the Fraps scare. Unfortunately, no one is immune and it's best to be as careful as possible. Recently, I came across another particularly sneaky way you could get keylogged.I don't use many AddOns when I play. Cartographer, Auctioneer and Gatherer are pretty much it. I've tried tarting my UI up with some of the fancier mods, but I always come back to my minimalist setup. Because I don't use many, I don't have to upgrade very often and I always neglect to bookmark the appropriate download sites. I'm also a believer in convenience, so I make full use of my Firefox address bar to do my "searches". Firefox will either bring up a Google search for whatever I type in or it will bring up the closest webpage to what I have typed.