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ieSpell – Must Have for Bloggers

July 10th, 2008 by Gregory Silvano Posted in Technology | No Comments »

I’ve been doing a lot of writing online lately, for blog posts, blog comments, and LinkedIn Answers.

If I have to write more than a few sentences, I typically write it in the web browser and then select the text, copy to the clipboard, open a new email, paste into the email, and see if any red squiggly lines show up for misspellings.  The whole process just takes a few seconds but it’s a total hack, of course.

I was going to have one of our developers write a quick spell check application that sits in the system tray.  I wanted something that I could double click and it would load up, automatically take the contents from the clipboard, and run a spell check on the text.  It would be a more elegant solution, but still not perfect.

Then I stumbled upon ieSpell.  Free, integrated right into Internet Explorer and can spell check any editable field in IE by just right-clicking in the field and choosing “Check Spelling”.

I highly recommend it.  There are a lot of words not in the dictionary by default (in this post it flagged LinkedIn, Bloggers, and a few other words) but just click Add to Dictionary and it’ll be that much smarter the next time around.

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