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Respelt: Auto Spell Checks Your Website & Sends eMail Alerts

Israel Nicolas — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:01:04 +0000

Most bloggers and content creators can be very obsessive with spelling. As writers, we do not want our articles to get nit-picked by the wrong spelling and ruin an awesome article. One tool that can manage your spell checks is Respelt. This web app lets you check the spelling of your articles and notify you so that you can correct them quickly.

To use Respelt, you can either copy and paste the article into the Respelt dashboard, enter the URL, or even enter your RSS feed. While entering the URL of your article is pretty straightforward, this tool also alerts you by checking your RSS feed for spelling mistakes and then letting you know when there is a problem. You can also correct your spelling mistakes by checking on spelling suggestions.

Respelt is a cool tool for writers and editors who want to make sure that no spelling mistake gets overlooked.

For more info watch demo video below:

Features:

Free to use auto spell check online.
Check spelling of URLs, articles, and even RSS feeds.
Simple interface.
Provides spelling suggestions.
Gives alert whenever a content in your RSS feed has a spelling mistake.
Similar Tools: Tinyspell, SpellCheck and Phras.in.

Check out Respelt @ www.respelt.com

Phras.in: Check Which One Of Two Phrases Is Correct

Umar — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:01:35 +0000

People whose first language is not English often find themselves deciding between two different English phrases or sentences. Both phrases sound fine but which one is the right one to use? Phras.in helps you decide.

Phras.in is a free to use website that helps you determine which one of two phrases or sentences is the right one to use. The site determines this by checking which entry results in more search results. Then the one with the most results is the one recommended to you.

You simply enter your two phrases in the boxes available and the number of results is shown next to them. At the bottom you can see what those results actually are.

Features:

A user friendly web service.
Helps you determine which one of two English phrases or sentences is the correct one.
Provides number of search results for the phrases.
Provides actual search results for the phrases.
Similar tools: WebSourceIt and ConfusingWords.

Check out Phras.in @ www.phras.in

eType: Windows Tool To Auto-Complete Words, Spell Check & Translation (500 Invites)

MOin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:01:22 +0000

eType is a great replacement for Typing Tutor programs. Typing Tutors help improve the accuracy and speed of your typing through practice; eType, on the other hand, tries to intuitively figure out which word you want to type and helps you choose from a list of narrowed-down words.

eType works on Windows and is sized at nearly 5MB. Its installation is quite standard and is over in a few moments. After you have the program installed, it sits in your system tray; the icon in the tray can be used to either disable or enable eType.

No periodic notifications or messages are displayed to disrupt your work. All the tool does is display a list of word options each time you start typing (view picture below for example). You can press the directional arrows to choose the words in the list, press ENTER / SPACE to select a word, or press the ESC key to cancel word selection. The program even offers different dictionaries through which you can instantly look up word translations and synonyms.

Features:

Very simple to use ““ nothing to be configured.
Supports multi-languages (dictionaries).
Offers easy translation.
Great, speedy response time.
Helps reduce errors in typing and will be great for people who dislike typing or are slow at it.
Similar tools: Spellist, Spellify, Orangoo and SpellJax.
Also read related articles: Tinyspell – Really Cool Spell Checker for Windows, TypingAid ““ A Simple Auto-Complete Tool To Speed Boost Your Typing and Autocomplete Text with Phrase Express.

eType is a freeware program and currently in beta. There are 500 instant beta invites exclusively available for MakeUseOf readers.

Check it out @ www.etype.com/v.aspx?id=makeuseof (by MOin from ThumbPress)

ESLAssistant: Correct Grammatical Errors In Your English

abhijeet — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:03:01 +0000

ESL Assistant is a new web service by Microsoft Research team to help people correct grammatical errors in their English writing. It is particularly useful for those whose native language isn’t English (ESL – English as Second Language). Just type in or copy paste the text into their box and hit check to find out the errors. It also searches Bing to check examples of English usage.

And if you use Outlook as your email tool then you could download and use their Outlook add-in to check your emails for any errors in English.

Features:

Correct grammatical errors in your English writing.
Web based, easy to use and does not require registration.
Search Bing from the page to find usage examples on the web.
Outlook add-in available for Outlook users.
Similar tools: AfterTheDeadline, Spellify, Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out ESLAssistant @ www.eslassistant.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

AfterTheDeadline: Ouick Grammar Checking Site

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:18:30 +0000

Sometimes we don’t have access to our favorite browsers or word processing applications to do simple things like spell and grammar checks. AfterTheDeadline solves this problem easily. It is a spell and grammar checking site where you can paste the text you are working with and check for spelling errors, grammar mistakes or get style suggestions.

There is no download and no registration required. Doing a right-click on the underlined word shows you the suggestions to fix the text.

Features:

Online grammar and spelling checker.
Suggests styling as well.
No registration or download required.
Light-weight and easy to use interface.
Similar sites: Spellify, Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out AfterTheDeadline @ www.polishmywriting.com (via DownloadSquad.com)

SpellCheck: Quick Spell Check Tool

azim — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:44:27 +0000

SpellCheck is simple and quick spell check app which lets you check words or a body of text (up to 20,000 characters) for spelling mistakes. Just enter your text into the provided box and press on the “SpellCheck Text” button. If there are misspellings in your text, it will show you correct word suggestions from a drop down box. Select from suggestions and click on the “Apply Changes” button to correct the mistakes.

Additionally you can also manipulate text into Upper, Lower or Proper Case.

Features:

Spell check text or a single word online.
Include up to 20,000 characters at once to check for spelling mistakes.
Get spelling suggestions and apply them to your text.
Manipulate text into Upper, Lower or Proper Case.
Similar websites: Spellify, Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out SpellCheck @ www.spellcheck.net

Spellify: Automatic Spell Checking

abhijeet — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:11:26 +0000

If you are someone who writes a lot online, be it filling out web forms, posting comments on blog or writing articles, I am sure spelling mistakes are something you deal with everyday. Spellify is an automatic spell checking website which would help you by correcting your errors as you type, thus saving you a lot of time.

It’s a simple website where either you could type in a line or paste multiple paragraphs in its extended version, and it would immediately provide suggestions for misspelled words. And it does spell check in multiple languages too.

Features

Automatic online spell check.
Paste or type text or multiple paragraphs.
Immediate pop up of correct words/suggestions.
Support for different languages.
Download and use it on your website to spell check filled web forms.
Similar tools: Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out Spellify @ www.spellify.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

Orangoo : Check Text & Sites For Spelling Mistakes

taubah — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:34:04 +0000

Orangoo is an online spell checker that allows you to check text or site for spelling mistakes. Simply paste the text that needs to be checked and mispelled words will be highlighted. Clicking on the highlighted word brings up suggestions on how to spell them correctly.

When it come to the site spell check, it’s free only for sites with less than 60 pages. If it is greater than 60 pages only partial spelling report is provided. The report is delivered via email within 24 hours.

Features:

Text and site spell check.
Get full spell check of your site if it is not greater than 60 pages.
The sites grater then 60 pages will only receive partial report.
Supports 27 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and many more.
Powered by Google, Aspell, and TextTrust.
Displays multiple corrections for a wrong spelling.
Similar websites: Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out Orangoo @ http://orangoo.com/spell/

Spellist: Easily Spell Check A Web Page

abhijeet — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:19:27 +0000

Sometimes, no matter how good you are with the English language, you tend to make spelling mistakes while writing an article for your blog or while building a web page. Spellist is a nice and simple online spell checker which makes use of the Google API to scan and spell check an entire web page and detect typos which haven’t caught your attention so far.

As you can see, when I spell checked MakeUseOf, it found some errors, which in fact are not spelling mistakes, instead they are the words which it couldn’t find in its dictionary including the names of the MakeUseOf authors

Overall, it’s a nice and handy tool to perform a one time spell check on your website and make sure all the spellings are in order.

Check out Spellist @ www.spellist.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

WebSourceIt : Which of The Two Spellings is Right?

Kaly — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:29:33 +0000

Not sure which of the two spellings is right ? Head to WebSourceIt. It is a web tool that lets you enter two different phrases/words and find out which one is more popular, measured by search engine popularity. Find out whether it’s priviledge or privilege? Away from or away of? etc.

Similarly, it can be used to choose between the right homophones (or homonyms). Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled and defined differently. For instance, using WebSourceIt you can check whether it’s more then or more than.

How does it work?

(1) Enter your words or phrases in to the provided fields and click “Enter”.
(2) WebSourceIt will then count the number of times the terms appear on the web.
(3) The higher the number, the higher chances of it being correct.

Features

Max phrase length: up to 5 words.
No sign up or registration needed.

Check out WebSourceIt @ www.websource.it