SpellCheck Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Friday Favorite: After the Deadline

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 20th, 2012)

I spend a lot of time in the web browser, so much that I use web apps more than their standalone counterparts. I use twitter.com to compose a tweet, gmail.com to check my email and so on. As a result, I use several plug-ins and extensions to improve the efficiency of my online work. In a ...

iPhone OS 4.0: iPad-like spell check

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 8th, 2010)

Reader Tom has been kind enough to send in a few images of the new spell check redesign in iPhone OS 4.0.As you can see, Apple has ditched the blue bubbles with the "x" and now gives you the option of choosing between multiple word selections. Stay tuned! We'll have more on the iPhone OS 4.0 ...

Ask TUAW: Prepping a Mac for transfer, adding words to spell check, updating Boot Camp, and more

by Mat Lu (Jan 28th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about preparing a Mac that you're transferring to a new owner, updating Boot Camp, adding words to the built-in spell check, dealing with flaky network disks, FTP clients, and more. As always, your ...

Unsung Snow Leopard feature: multiple-language spell checker

by Chris Rawson (Sep 4th, 2009)

OS X has had a system-wide, built-in spell checker for a while now, but until Snow Leopard, it could only check the spelling of whatever your default language was. But what if you needed to prepare a document in another language, say for a college Spanish assignment? In that case, you'd end up with ...

Mac 101: spell check errors

by Dave Caolo (Jul 10th, 2008)

There's a funny post at The Apple Blog today that points out a few typos that give Mac OS X Leopard's built-in spell checker a bit of trouble. For instance, the error "instrucitons" suggests "isntrucitons" as well as "instructions", and "applicaticataion" when "applicatication" is typed instead of ...

Mac 101: Enabling Built-in Spell Check

by Erica Sadun (May 7th, 2007)

Mac OS X offers a system-wide built-in spell checker. Many OS X applications including Mail, Pages, TextEdit, Safari and iChat AV (among others) allow you to take advantage of this feature to find and correct spelling mistakes. To enable spell checking in an application, control-click (or ...