Web Spellcheckers
For those of you who seem to type while wearing boxing gloves, there are a couple new web-based spellcheckers that you may find to be useful. Now you don’t need to copy and paste into Word to spellcheck before flaming each other in the comments section.
First, for you Internet Explorer users, there is the new version of the Google Toolbar. For you smarter and more attractive Firefox users, there’s the Spellbound extension.
Update: I should have mentioned that there were three things you have to install in order to make the Spellbound extension work in Firefox, making things a little bit more complicated than most people would like. I’ve collected the links and instructions and posted them below.
When you first click on the links, you will have to allow “www.oregoncommentator.com” to install software. Don’t worry, we’re not l33t enough to know how to create malicious Firefox extensions.
For users of Firefox 1.0:
1. Install the SpellBound extension by clicking the link below:
SpellBound extension
2. Install the Mozilla spell check libraries for your operating system. The one below is the one for Windows:
Windows spell check libraries
3. Install a dictionary if necessary (I did, just in case). The one below is for US English:
US English Dictionary
4. Restart Firefox.
In order to use SpellBound, just right click in a any web form and it should appear in the right-click menu. Hope this helps.
Links found via the very useful Lifehacker.
