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February 24, 2004 Tech Stuff 11 Comments

I use Zempt to post to this site. I like Zempt a lot, but it has the most worthless piece of shit spell checker ever. I know I shouldn’t be complaining about free software, but I’d pay for it if it could actually catch more than 50% of the spelling errors.

Why can’t someone make a plug-in for Word (which has an excellent spell checker and grammar checker) to do blog posts? Assuming that’s not going to happen anytime soon, I’d settle for an offline posting program with a decent spell checker.

BTW – w.bloggar‘s spell checker is no better than Zempt’s…

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11 Comments

  1. Jerry February 24, 2004

    I’ve never tried it, but how about thest two articles from MS on using the Spell checker…

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q262605“]http://suppo-
    rt.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q262605

    or
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q243844&“]http://suppo-
    rt.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q243844

  2. Jerry February 24, 2004

    Oops. “These”. Ironic.

  3. Claire February 24, 2004

    Isn’t there Text Edit or Notepad for Windoze? You poor, poor M$ people…

  4. Jane February 24, 2004

    wads rong wid yur spiling? I neva notised a ting.

  5. Kevin February 24, 2004

    Claire there are plenty of notepad replacements, some with spelling. I’m talking about offline blogging clients only (Zempt, w.bloggar, etc.).

  6. Fritz February 24, 2004

    Nooooo! You’re inviting Microsoft to take over the blogging market. Just thinking it will make it happen (they monitor our thoughts, you know). They’ll buy out the Trotts and turn MT into a horrible Word/Frontpage add on — take it back. In the name of everything holy TAKE IT BACK!

  7. Kevin February 25, 2004

    An expensive alternative is buying a mac. If you use kung-log to post, you get to use the Mac’s built-in spell checker

  8. Paul February 25, 2004

    Just get a Mac and use Safari.

    It’s faster anyway.

  9. Kathy K February 25, 2004

    Sometimes misspellings are fortuitous. I once made a typo in a title from ‘our friends the Saudis’ to ‘our fiends the Saudis’. Needless to say, my spellcheck didn’t catch it. It’s since become a favorite title of mine…

    I use MSIE for posting to MT (it’s about the only thing I use MSIE for) and there’s a nice little spellcheck plugin called iespell that I like a lot.

  10. James Joyner February 25, 2004

    Yeah, I use iespell, too. It works on other blogs (comments), other sites, etc. as well.

    Indeed, I though it was you who told me about it?

  11. Kevin February 25, 2004

    It was. I use it in IE, but it doesn’t work in Zempt or w.bloggar.