PITTSBURGH (AP) -- How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button. A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may ...

Get more out of the spell-checker built into Firefox and add spell-checking to Internet Explorer via the free IE7Pro add-on. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

For most of us who didn’t do well in high school English class, spell checkers are a real game-changer. Sure, you can still swap a “to” and a “too,” but a spell checker will catch a lot of typos. But ...

A new window will open where Firefox will check for updates. If updates are available, they will be applied to Firefox automatically. After the installation of updates, you have to restart Firefox. If ...

Four weeks after the launch of Google’s Chrome 26browser into beta, the final version debuted on Tuesday. The most notable enhancements in Chrome 26 include a new spell-checking engine, as we saw when ...

The iPhone corrects your typing as you go, but, until now, there hasn't been a method for performing an aggregate spell check on emails before they are sent. Mike Schneider has released a new update ...

Microsoft Notepad isn't considered among the top text editor programs, but it's certainly one of the oldest and most widely installed. Microsoft first introduced Notepad in May 1983, presenting it as ...

Hard on the heels of last week’s release of the Chrome 25 browser into the Stable Channel, Google on Tuesday pushed its eventual successor—Chrome 26—into beta. Whereas Chrome 25 was most notable for ...

A separate program or function within a word processing or other text entry program that tests for correctly spelled words. Spell checkers can test spelling on the fly as the user types, or they may ...

People using Microsoft Access will sometimes receive errors when typing a sentence and trying to spell a word. Microsoft Access has a Spelling feature that helps people to correct misspelled words. In ...

I use the Stickies application as a catch-all for weird stuff I know I want to keep, but I’m not quite sure where I want to keep it. Eventually, I find homes for these odd snippets of code, advice on ...