Comments on: It’s All Greek To Me: 15 Lorem Ipsum Resources http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/ TheAppleBlog, published by and for the day-to-day Apple user, is a prominent source for news, reviews, walkthroughs, and real life application of all Apple products. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:52:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: davidxi2008 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-124025 davidxi2008 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:16:38 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-124025 apple iphone is very great, i find very cool iphone gadgets at http://www.shopping-toys.com/iphone-3g-cases-c-27.html i feel iphone gadget let your iphone more stylish do you think?? apple iphone is very great, i find very cool iphone gadgets at
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]]> By: ‘Design Thoughts’ : rjslade » Friday and Saturday Software and Links http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-119113 ‘Design Thoughts’ : rjslade » Friday and Saturday Software and Links Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:43:19 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-119113 [...] Greeked Text [...] [...] Greeked Text [...]

]]> By: Apple Laptop Battery http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-118068 Apple Laptop Battery Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:13:10 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-118068 http://www.laptopbattery-inc.co.uk/apple-laptop-battery-c-77.html While there isn’t exactly a plethora of widgets, the following ones cover all the ipsum bases: Dolor Sit Amet (small & quick) Cicero (gets the job done) Lorem Ipsum Widget (fancy) Corporate Ipsum - a humorous alternative to “lorem ipsum” (though it generates readable text, so it may distract proofers). http://www.laptopbattery-inc.co.uk/apple-laptop-battery-c-77.html

While there isn’t exactly a plethora of widgets, the following ones cover all the ipsum bases:

Dolor Sit Amet (small & quick)
Cicero (gets the job done)
Lorem Ipsum Widget (fancy)
Corporate Ipsum - a humorous alternative to “lorem ipsum” (though it generates readable text, so it may distract proofers).

]]> By: kevin http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-115784 kevin Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:03:13 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-115784 i use Quicksilver, so i have a 4-paragarph long text file saved as "lorem.txt", and so to insert it, I 1) Quicksilver hot key (in my case, the apple key) 2) type "lor" 3) tab 4) type "paste" 5) enter i use Quicksilver, so i have a 4-paragarph long text file saved as “lorem.txt”, and so to insert it, I

1) Quicksilver hot key (in my case, the apple key)
2) type “lor”
3) tab
4) type “paste”
5) enter

]]> By: michael http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114560 michael Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:17:51 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114560 i use <a href="www.blindtextgenerator.com" title="blindtextgenerator" rel="nofollow">blindtextgenerator</a> - simple, multi-language + some nice features (but you don't have to use them) i use blindtextgenerator - simple, multi-language + some nice features (but you don’t have to use them)

]]> By: Joe W http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114462 Joe W Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:02:25 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114462 The use of Greek here confusing it for Latin is bothersome to us "Greek Geeks" (academic types who learn/teach Greek. The use of Greek here confusing it for Latin is bothersome to us “Greek Geeks” (academic types who learn/teach Greek.

]]> By: Ep http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114417 Ep Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:10:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114417 I use <a href="http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/" rel="nofollow">TextExpander</a>. Type "lorem" and the rest comes automatically. I use TextExpander. Type “lorem” and the rest comes automatically.

]]> By: john http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114407 john Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:26:43 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114407 Don't you mean "It's all geek to me"? Don’t you mean “It’s all geek to me”?

]]> By: Ben http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114404 Ben Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:53:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114404 Yeah, "it's all Latin to me" would have been a better pun. Yeah, “it’s all Latin to me” would have been a better pun.

]]> By: Will http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114401 Will Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:29:29 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114401 I know the use of dummy text is called "greeking" but isn't the text itself Latin? I know the use of dummy text is called “greeking” but isn’t the text itself Latin?

]]> By: Twist http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114400 Twist Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:25:40 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114400 You forgot Coda. It comes with a lorem snippet. You forgot Coda. It comes with a lorem snippet.

]]> By: mystery-man http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114399 mystery-man Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:29:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114399 I can not believe you missed the coolest Lorem Ipsum site http://loremipscream.com/, pure genius! I can not believe you missed the coolest Lorem Ipsum site http://loremipscream.com/, pure genius!

]]> By: Heath http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114396 Heath Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:05:58 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114396 The very best such generator ever made was MacTravesty. I can't provide a link, as the application was written for Classic, before OS X, and the developer (from discussion) doesn't foresee it ever being updated. There may still be copies floating around out there. This is unfortunate, as MacTravesty was actually a faux-language generator. It would take a corpus of text, of your choosing, analyse it for proximity of letters to other letters, build an internal table of those likelihoods, and then generate texts which followed those hidden rules. This meant that you could provide it with a body of Swahili, and it would spit out text in which "e" occurred next to "a" in situations that the designers might never have thought of, simply based on the frequency with with which this happened in the original text. It also meant that you could use it to construct vast corpuses of your own fictitious language, feeding its own results back into itself, selecting out the words that 'looked' most like what you sought and feeding them back in again. All of it following deep and unseen rules of character proximity that gave the result an amazing verisimilitude. It was amazing. I truly hope that either the designer recreates it for OS X someday, or that some ambitious programmer finds a way to try it out and builds something similar. vehtretan traeshei kile mein, amahm numahm anth nali anthiatle, itha khu thua an sonam oveta andraes hethu. The very best such generator ever made was MacTravesty. I can’t provide a link, as the application was written for Classic, before OS X, and the developer (from discussion) doesn’t foresee it ever being updated. There may still be copies floating around out there.

This is unfortunate, as MacTravesty was actually a faux-language generator. It would take a corpus of text, of your choosing, analyse it for proximity of letters to other letters, build an internal table of those likelihoods, and then generate texts which followed those hidden rules.

This meant that you could provide it with a body of Swahili, and it would spit out text in which “e” occurred next to “a” in situations that the designers might never have thought of, simply based on the frequency with with which this happened in the original text.

It also meant that you could use it to construct vast corpuses of your own fictitious language, feeding its own results back into itself, selecting out the words that ‘looked’ most like what you sought and feeding them back in again. All of it following deep and unseen rules of character proximity that gave the result an amazing verisimilitude.

It was amazing. I truly hope that either the designer recreates it for OS X someday, or that some ambitious programmer finds a way to try it out and builds something similar.

vehtretan traeshei kile mein, amahm numahm anth nali anthiatle, itha khu thua an sonam oveta andraes hethu.

]]> By: jethro http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114395 jethro Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:15:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114395 I think you mean, "It's all Geek to me!" I think you mean, “It’s all Geek to me!”

]]> By: b3studios http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114393 b3studios Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:20:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/02/14/its-all-greek-to-me/#comment-114393 my favorite: MacLorem http://www.fika.org/davew/judebear/MacLorem/ my favorite:
MacLorem

http://www.fika.org/davew/judebear/MacLorem/

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