Spellrus Blog http://blog.spellr.us Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:53:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Weekend System Maintenance July 30 - August 2 2010 http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/30/weekend-system-maintenance-july-30-august-2-2010/ http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/30/weekend-system-maintenance-july-30-august-2-2010/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:53:10 +0000 Kevin http://blog.spellr.us/?p=106 We will be doing some major infrastructure updates to our core backend systems over the weekend July 30 - August 2 2010.

There may be some system downtime at times.  Please be patient with us.  All should be resolved by August 2 2010.

Thanks.

spellr.us Team

]]> http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/30/weekend-system-maintenance-july-30-august-2-2010/feed/ spellr.us Upgrade http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/29/spellrus-upgrade/ http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/29/spellrus-upgrade/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:30:10 +0000 Kevin http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/29/spellrus-upgrade/ Ok!

So the new infrastructure has been thoroughly tested and is all in place - we are hoping that by weekend of Saturday 8 August 2010 our brand spanking new infrastructure will be in place for all of our users to use. If there are any delays we will let you know on this blog.

This upgraded system should be blindingly fast and stay blindingly fast.

Our existing system is still a relic of our prototype and it outgrew our client base. A couple of months back we literally started from scratch and built new backend infrastructure that will allow for growth.

The main thing is our system should soon be super fast for all to enjoy.

We appreciate your patience and support.

Kevin, James & the spellr.us team

]]> http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/29/spellrus-upgrade/feed/ Infrastructure Upgrade Near Completion http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/12/infrastructure-upgrade-near-completion/ http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/12/infrastructure-upgrade-near-completion/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:13:49 +0000 Kevin http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/12/infrastructure-upgrade-near-completion/ Hi

We are excited to announce that we are in the very final stages of testing our new spellr.us infrastructure. The new version will be made live once we have ironed out any remaining bugs.

We know that at times our system has been under significant load which has caused problems for some users.

We have spent a significant amount of time and resources totally reworking the spellr.us backend infrastructure to allow for lots of future growth. Hopefully all load issues will soon be a thing of the past.

We appreciate your patience - the improved speed and performance will be significant and greatly improve your spellr.us experience.

Please feel free to send any questions to help@spellr.us.

Regards,
Kevin, James & the spellr.us team

]]> http://blog.spellr.us/2010/07/12/infrastructure-upgrade-near-completion/feed/ New Evidence on the Lack of Web Copy-Editing http://blog.spellr.us/2010/03/09/new-evidence-on-the-lack-of-web-copy-editing/ http://blog.spellr.us/2010/03/09/new-evidence-on-the-lack-of-web-copy-editing/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:59:03 +0000 Dain http://blog.spellr.us/?p=95 Business Insider just posted, “Fact-Checking and Copy-Editing Don’t Happen as Much on the Web,” citing a study conducted by The Columbia Journalism Review that compared publications’ print and web copy-editing standards.  Turns out, 48% of online-only copy is edited less rigorously than print-only copy, while 11% of online-copy is not copy-edited at all!

We had a feeling… good thing Spellr.us is here to help!

View the article here

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Unfortunately the infrastructure upgrade is taking longer than we had anticipated. We will keep you up to date via this blog.

We appreciate your patience. This upgrade will be significant and will remove any performance issues that you are having with your account.

Please feel free to email us at help@spellr.us with any questions.

]]> http://blog.spellr.us/2010/03/04/system-upgrade-update/feed/ Infrastructure Upgrade http://blog.spellr.us/2010/01/28/infrastructure-upgrade/ http://blog.spellr.us/2010/01/28/infrastructure-upgrade/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:21:48 +0000 Kevin http://blog.spellr.us/2010/01/28/infrastructure-upgrade/ Hi All

We have been working on upgrading some of our infrastructure - this means that the system will become a lot more responsive and glitch free.

The new infrastructure should all be in place by the end of February.  Thanks for your patience.

Please drop us a line at help@spellr.us if you have any questions.

Thanks.
Kevin

]]> http://blog.spellr.us/2010/01/28/infrastructure-upgrade/feed/ spellr.us Affiliate Program http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/24/spellrus-affiliate-program/ http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/24/spellrus-affiliate-program/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:38:58 +0000 Dain http://blog.spellr.us/?p=87 Did you know that spellr.us has an affiliate program? Well… we do!

Our most recent affiliate, Polon.co.uk has just posted a rather nice landing page promoting our service via an affiliate link. Take a look here.

Polon is a UK based copywriting studio that uses spellr.us to help ensure the quality their web content.

If you’re interested in finding out more about our affiliate program just shoot us an email at help@spellr.us and we’ll send you more details.

]]> http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/24/spellrus-affiliate-program/feed/ An interview with spellr.us founder Kevin Garber at TechCrunch50 http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/16/an-interview-with-spellrus-founder-kevin-garber-at-techcrunch50/ http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/16/an-interview-with-spellrus-founder-kevin-garber-at-techcrunch50/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:02:37 +0000 Dain http://blog.spellr.us/?p=84 Mick Liubinskas from http://www.pollenizer.com/ took a few moments to interview spellr.us’ founder Kevin Garber at TechCrunch50 about the event, Australian companies and the year ahead. We’ve embedded the video interview below. Thanks Mick!

]]> http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/16/an-interview-with-spellrus-founder-kevin-garber-at-techcrunch50/feed/ A better spell checker http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/07/a-better-spell-checker/ http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/07/a-better-spell-checker/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:25:49 +0000 Dain http://blog.spellr.us/?p=82 Here at spellr.us we like to think that we’ve got pretty good at spell checking websites. However, we’ve been frustrated at the text spell checkers available online. They don’t run fast enough or have a clean enough interface.

As a result we decided to try our hand at building a page that spell checks text only. Try our online text spell check here. We’ve included a few cool features like dictionary definitions of suggestions to help you choose better and a clean navigation system for quickly correcting all errors in a piece of text.

Let us know what you think!

Free online text spell check

Our brand new online text spell checker.

]]> http://blog.spellr.us/2009/09/07/a-better-spell-checker/feed/ spellr.us - The TV Star http://blog.spellr.us/2009/07/21/spellrus-the-tv-star/ http://blog.spellr.us/2009/07/21/spellrus-the-tv-star/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:42:14 +0000 Dain http://blog.spellr.us/?p=79 Our recent press release on University spelling mistakes has caused a bit of a stir. Along with being featured on several news websites, we were quite surprised to hear via twitter that the story had found it’s way onto Sky News in the UK. After a considerable bit of searching, our marketing expert Kerry managed to track down the clip, which we’ve embedded below. Neat!

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