Skip to main content

Speckie: Spell Checker For Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 may have come a long way from the dreaded version 6, but it still needs to work on some of the basics. How about a spell checker to start with? Maybe the developers were so absorbed in beating synthetic tests and hardware acceleration they forgot that more than half of the population can’t spell.

Speckie is a plugin that brings this vital feature to Internet Explorer 9, and quite possibly, to earlier versions as well. After you install it you will have to restart IE and then, at first launch, you will have to allow Speckie to run. There is no configuration to be made, although you can download and add additional dictionaries. Speckie is also very light on resources.

As far as spell checking goes, Speckie works but is far from perfect. It detects spelling errors, alright, but does an abysmal job at suggestions. Also, the plugin is very fickle – it sometime works and sometime doesn’t.

speckie

At this point, I was tempted to see how other browsers fared at spelling suggestions. This is what I found.

spell-checker-comparison

Evidently, Opera offers the richest and the most number of suggestions. Chrome and Firefox are tied.

Speckie is the worst. But something is better than noting, so go ahead, download this one.

Comments

  1. Ie7pro also has a spell checker you could try ;)
    Although I wasn't able to get suggestions in the comment section.

    rimed

    ReplyDelete
  2. Opera is the worst. A lot of the alternative spellings are so unnecessary. Like, why suggest "masker" for "cecker"?

    Firefox and Chrome are better when offering quality over quantity of spelling correction words.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Opera is the worst. A lot of the alternative spellings are so unnecessary. Like, why suggest "masker" for "cecker"?

    If you look at it that way, then yes, a lot of them are unnecessary. But I wouldn't call Opera the worst.

    Ie7pro also has a spell checker you could try ;)

    Ie7Pro ... that's it. I vaguely remember coming across a spell checker for IE in the past but couldn't recall the name. Thanks for that.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to Record CPU and Memory Usage Over Time in Windows?

Whenever the computer is lagging or some application is taking too long to respond, we usually fire up task manager and look under the Performance tab or under Processes to check on processor utilization or the amount of free memory available. The task manager is ideal for real-time analysis of CPU and memory utilization. It even displays a short history of CPU utilization in the form of a graph. You get a small time-window, about 30 seconds or so, depending on how large the viewing area is.

How to Schedule Changes to Your Facebook Page Cover Photo

Facebook’s current layout, the so called Timeline, features a prominent, large cover photo that some people are using in a lot of different creative ways. Timeline is also available for Facebook Pages that people can use to promote their website or business or event. Although you can change the cover photo as often as you like, it’s meant to be static – something which you design and leave it for at least a few weeks or months like a redesigned website. However, there are times when you may want to change the cover photo frequently and periodically to match event dates or some special promotion that you are running or plan to run. So, here is how you can do that.

Diagram 101: Different Types of Diagrams and When To Use Them

Diagrams are a great way to visualize information and convey meaning. The problem is that there’s too many different types of diagrams, so it can be hard to know which ones you should use in any given situation. To help you out, we’ve created this diagram that lays out the 7 most common types of diagrams and when they’re best used: