Real-time spell checker thing! (works on the SDMB too!)

I just downloaded the grooviest program ever! It’s called As-U-Type and it works wherever you are typing.

Http://www.asutype.com

I’m on day one of my 30-day free trial and so far I’m hooked! I am a decent speller but prone to typos, and this pretty much just fixes them as you go!

Cool beans! God knows I need it. Okay I downloaded it, now how do I make it work? :confused:

You may need to reboot. Just run it (I put a shortcut in my startup group) and then when you type it will start correcting you as you go. The icon in your system tray should show it (like a red square with a yellow hand or something in it…) If you click the icon once, it grays out and disables. Click it again, it enables.

I can’t spell worth a darn so this is great OpalCat. Thank you very very much!

Spoz will be very disappointed to learn of the existence of this program… but I don’t plan to download it. (even though I hate typos with a passion sometimes…)

F_X

That’s pretty cool Opal, thanksd!

:smiley:

Dammit! Another idea somebody beat me to (Not to mention has the resources, know-how, and time to get done).
Cool program though!

You have to add in a lot of words manually, but once you get that done it’s pretty darn cool!

(I was joking around and called a friend “skanky” and it changed it to “swanky”)

Hmmm…that might annoy me more than anything else. I mean, I make typos left and right. My fingers are unable to go to the rifght keys more than 50% of the time. I’m serious here, almost every onther word I type ends up getting a type unless I go slow. But the problem is, when I use spellchecker, the first word it wants me to change to is never the word I was trying to type.

I did find one problem with this program. It has a tendancy to spellcheck when you are typing in passwords. Every mistake that you make it writes to a log file so that you can go over and correct your mistakes. if your password is a weird spelling of a word, or just gibberish, it gets recorded to this file, as what you actually typed (not the little black dots or such that are so common). Not a huge issue, but I prefer not to have my password written down anywhere where they can be gotten at by anybody other than me.
Or maybe I’m overly paranoid. Now where did I put that tinfoil hat…?