I Hope I'm Not the Only One

[forsyth]

Does anybody else find themselves using Google as a quick and dirty spellchecker when they don't want to stop and run a spellcheck or are using a web form or something without a spellcheck?

Comments

yes

[jokermage.livejournal.com]

Yes

[colinmo.livejournal.com]

I found it easier to type in www.dictionary.com and run with that, to make sure I got the correct spelling for the correct definition too.

I do use Google for a quick calculator/ converter though, it's great.

[peterchayward.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[leticia.livejournal.com]

Nope; I use one of the three or four programs I always have open with a built in spellchecker.

Opera has spellchecking in all text boxes and emails. Yes, including this one. (It's optional, but an easy install.)

And MUSHClient has a spellchecker as well.

But the one I probably use the most (if I'm typing in none of the three clients, nor in my text editor - which also has a spellchecker) is gaim, because it spellchecks automatically and underlines incorrect words, so I can see as soon as I've typed it whether I've got it or not.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

I've been tempted to switch over to GAIM. But, uh, I don't remember most of my passwords for ICQ/AIM/etc. Heh.

[(Anonymous)]

Your gaim spellchecks? Man, guess I should see if I need to update that package

[leticia.livejournal.com]

It's an option, anyhow, if you let it download it. Using aspell, I think.

...Which, come to think of it, is what Opera is using too and I downloaded it twice. Oh well.

[dezro.livejournal.com]

Yes when I'm using Firefox 1.5, no when I'm using Firefox 2b1 or any Cocoa-based Mac program or anything else that can do spellchecking.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Firefox 2 beta's out? How is it?

[dezro.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly stable! And all my extensions work great after running them through Nightly Tester Tools and its compatibility fixer thing.

The main problem is the spellcheck dictionary is quite old. Almost every internet word you enter comes up as an error. Even 'Firefox'! The second problem is that the Google Feeling Lucky search in the URL bar is disabled for some reason, and I can't re-enable it.

They're saving all the cool new features for 3.0, but the ones that are there are nifty. Plus, there are less crashes on OSX! Woot!

[victor-von.livejournal.com]

In spite of my job giving me unlimited access to the OED online...

Yep. I do that. I'm a lazy sod.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Spellcheck AND a calculator. I'm apparently too lazy to type Ctrl-Esc-R-c-a-l-c-Enter any more when I can just hit Ctrl-N-F8-g-[query here]-Enter.

It helps that Opera is very integrated with Google (and a number of other services) in the address bar.

Personally, I'd like the ability to be able to program my own address bar scripts for entries with spaces in. Even if it was only so I could say "When the address bar has [characterX][space][anything], convert it to http://servername/path/file?[anything] instead," and "If there is anything with spaces in submitted from the address bar and it does NOT match any of the existing scripts, assume it's a search phrase and dump it to Google."

[kalifla.livejournal.com]

No. I'm the spellchecker.