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SpellCatcher is the Best Software Ever

Nobody ever admits they need a crutch 'cept me.

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.

Evan's story.

EA abandons product.

Baseline picks it up.

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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