Readers offer their best tips for autocorrecting words in OS X, controlling your phone's audio with Bluetooth devices, and using Dropbox with Remember the Milk.
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Auto-Suggest Words with Escape in OS X
Lensflare shares a useful keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X:
On Mac writing applications (Pages, TextEdit, etc.) you can use escape while typing to bring up a drop-down menu of the possible words. This is very useful when you are typing a long word or don't know how to spell something.
Control Your iPhone and iPod Over Bluetooth in iOS 4
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Doyledagain lets us know of a useful new feature in iOS 4.1:
If you use a bluetooth connection to play your iPhone's music through your car's deck, iOS 4.1 apparently updated its profile to allow skipping forwards and backwards through the radio hardware. Previously, you had to do this through the phone, which was a pretty big distraction while driving.
I haven't personally been able to test this myself, so let us know how it works for you in the comments.
Use Dropbox Public Links to Enhance Remember the Milk Task Lists
Josephsanta shares another neat way to use Dropbox with other productivity services:
Another great use for Dropbox—You can make it work with Remember the Milk. If you want a task in RTM to link to a file on your computer, drop the file that you want into your public folder, copy the public link and then copy the path to the task's link. That way, you can click on the link and it will bring you right to the file on your machine... neato!
What's nice is that this will also take you to the file if you're reading your task list on a machine that isn't yours.
Ease Long YouTube Waiting with a Game of Snake
Santi Munevar shares a fun Easter egg hidden inside YouTube:
While waiting for a YouTube video to load, you can play snake by pressing the up arrow key when the loading circle is visible.