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Poking My Head Above The Trenches

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Just a quick one as I quickly poke my head above the work trenches.

We haven’t forgotten about our beta testers and we definitely haven’t forgotten about spellr.us - Adam together with Charl have been adding in features that we KNOW will put a smile on your face.

Continue to enjoy beta access and watch this space.

Kevin in downtown Sydney.

Custom Dictionaries and Options; Twitter & Facebook

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Hi All

Custom dictionaries are very much and well LIVE!

Testing: therre theiir

We have 2 types of dictionaries:

  1. Shared dictionaries - which are available to everyone to use which include:(i) Common - words which we feel that our default directory doesn’t handle too well.

    (ii) Lorem-Ipsum - this is useful for staging environments where Lorem is used as content filler.

    (iii) Medical - for medical related sites.

    (iv) Peoples-Names-Concise - most common names.

    (v) Peoples-Names - much broader than vi above so may have a chance of causing a genuine typo to be missed due to the engine thinking it is a name.

    (vi) Tech-Jargon - words like blogger, iPod, iTunes etc - we are constantly adding to this.

    (vii) Australian-Slang - words specific to this crazy part of the world - such as “strewth”, “on ya” etc.

  2. Personal Dictionaries - Each user can create one or more personal dictionaries to use. Users can add individual words.

We have also added a couple of options such as to ignore words with hyphens and apostrophes.

Charl and Adam have worked hard to remove many of the false positives from the results.

We have also now given users the options to run scans up to 10 000 pages!

Please let us know if you pick up any funnies.

If you want to join our Facebook group go here.

If you want to follow us on Twitter go here.

Still to come: advanced feature for people to exclude parts of their sites.

And please continue to send us feedback - we read each and every one and try to respond to all.

Kevin - Sydney

 
 
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