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A positive rant and a work in progress.
I know what the best piece of software in the entire universe is.
It's hard to convince people they need a spell checker.
I know I need a spell checker.
EA abandons product.
The Desert Storm - Thunder 7 Story.
Cassady & Greene takes over.
PC version.
Evan markets it himself.
Why have multiple dictionaries?
Features. Glossary. Spelling. Definitions. Cool newer features.
I've been using it for 16 years and don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
Typical Example: People on Slashdot fail to see the light.
Spell Catcher
Spell Catcher is a system-wide spelling checker, which means it works in all of your applications and provides several other extremely handy utilities.
system-wide dictionary
works in any application
centrally used dictionaries
alert sound of your choice (or flash your menu bar
misspell a word
type a double word
make a punctuation
capitalization error.
Suggest Spelling
replace your misspelling with the correct spelling.
Adding new words is quick and easy
Teach Spell Catcher how to type for yo
Edit Shorthand Glossaries
type a trigger
type the whole word or words you’d like your trigger to expand into
recognizes 1166 common misspellings that are automatically corrected as you type
extensive dictionary and thesaurus
thesaurus contains over 550,000 entries
find the meanings of over 102,000 words
keep track of all your keystrokes and save them to a text file.
proofreading and text-manipulation features
combine these features into your own macros
Capitalize Sentences
Form Paragraphs,
lowercase
Multiple Spaces to Single Space
Multiple Spaces to Tab
Quote
Search and Replace
Smarten Quotes
Spaces to Tabs
Statistics
Straighten Quotes
Strip Characters
Strip White Space
Tabs to Spaces
Title Case
Title Case Str ict
UPPERCASE
Word Count
extra languages
Canadian French
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swiss German
UK English
convert dictionaries to Spell Catcher
May 13, 2006
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