The system-wide spell check in OS X has been a welcome addition to the Mac platform, and many developers have implemented it in their programs. However, in some instances this feature may suddenly ...

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 ...

Sometimes when composing documents in multiple languages, it may be useful to check the spelling in those various languages. Here are some options for how to manage multiple languages in OS X. Topher ...

Like many, I was not pleased to read that Oregon students in 7th-grade and high school will be allowed to use spell check on their computers for more than single-word checks on state exams. At the end ...

Perhaps the most obvious way to build a spell checker is by simply looking up each word in a dictionary. With modern hardware this wouldn’t be too hard, but disks in the ’70s were extremely slow and ...

Q: I’m using Windows 10 and recently downloaded DuckDuckGo from Chrome. When I misspell a word, it gives me a link that takes me to another page to find the correct spelling. Spell check in Chrome ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death rate of words has apparently increased recently while new entries into languages are becoming less common, both perhaps because of digital spell-checking, according to a Google-aided ...