October 5, 2011
One of the great things about typing into a word processor like Microsoft Word or Apple Pages is that they automatically fix common spelling mistakes. While most web browsers have come a long way with spell checking, they still do not include auto-correct. Some spelling mistakes are so common that just underlining them seems pointless.
December 6, 2010
Unfortunately, we don’t have an in-built spell checker. The brain has to stand in and it only manages to do that after long hours of reading, study and practice. You would think that getting the right spelling wouldn’t be important enough to warrant competitions that are fought tooth and nail. In fact, Spelling Bee contests [...]
September 10, 2010
As a child I was never a real good speller. I never participated in any spelling bees to save myself from the embarrassment. I’ve improved a bit through the years but there are still always going to be those words whose spelling is going to elude me. For those of you who are in the [...]
June 29, 2010
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of converting text captured in an image into a text document. This procedure is rarely flawless since little irregularities in the image, think of a newspaper scan, may cause the OCR software to make mistakes. Hence, spell checking is an indispensable step in completing any OCR job. Unfortunately, [...]
January 20, 2010
There are approximately more than 130 million blogs out there with around 900,000 posts per day. There are over 80 languages used in the blogging world, but more than half of those blogs are written in English. And even though I can’t find the data, I’m sure that only a teeney-weeney percentage of the blogs [...]
January 9, 2009
As a web writer, correct spellings are essential to my work. As it is something that I have to be a perfectionist about, I take a lot of care with my proofreading with an installed dictionary. I also “˜live’ a lot within the Firefox browser and that too necessitates a good spell checker. Thankfully, Firefox [...]
January 5, 2009
Some good things do come in small packages and TinySpell (a spell checker for Windows) is one of them. For those interested in the written word and its correct spelling, TinySpell is a must have. There are lots of spelling utilities out there like the well known WordWeb or even Office suite’s own spell checker, [...]
