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Spell Catcher X is the powerful writing tool preferred by educators, students, writers, bloggers - anyone who writes on their Macintosh. It's the all-in-one writing solution for those who need standardized custom dictionaries for use in all their applications, those that write in multiple languages, and anyone that simply wants to be a faster, more effective writer. Use it in Mac OS X applications such as email, web browsers, instant messaging, Microsoft Word and other word processors, graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop, video and movie programs, databases, spreadsheets and
What's New
Version 10.4.1:
Please note that the system requirements have changed!
- Spell Catcher X 10.4.1 requires Mac OS X 10.5 and later, running on Intel Macintosh hardware.
- PowerPC Macintosh users running Mac OS X 10.5 must continue to use Spell Catcher X 10.4 (see 'Related Links' below).
- New Cancel Last Expansion command in Spell Catcher’s Input menu. This will delete any text entered since the most recent shorthand expansion or completion. In most applications, this is generally equivalent to choosing Edit > Undo. There are some applications, however, where the Undo command may work differently—undoing more than you might want. The Cancel Last Expansion command is useful in such applications, particularly when you type an abbreviation that you didn’t mean to.
- New Special Key for use in shorthand expansions to explicitly specify the final position of the insertion point (Insert pop-up > Special Key > Position Cursor Here).
- Ability to show and sort by Date Modified in Shorthand Glossary document windows. Control-click the table column header to see a shortcut menu to set the visibility of the columns. It’s now possible to hide the Expansion column, as the Expansion is always visible in the text area on the right side of the window.
- Spell Catcher’s input method application (64-bit capable) makes use of new-in-Lion input method functionality. The most noticeable will be improved performance of DirectCorrect in many applications.
- The Spell Catcher application now “opts-out” of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion’s “Reopen windows when logging back in” feature. This means that the Spell Catcher application will only open (at login) when required by its input method, or by the Mac OS X system-wide spelling checker.
- The Spell Catcher application now supports Mac OS X 10.7 Mac OS X 10.7 Lion’s suspend/resume functionality for the Preferences, Find in References, Check Word, and Edit Macro windows.
- Improvements to Spell Catcher > Get Updates and Languages window, adding a pane to display a full, styled text description of the selected update.
- Many internal code changes, primarily to support Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) features and capabilities.
- Minor performance improvements throughout.
- Built with Xcode 4.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
- Properly expand shorthands that include “Special Keys” when using the input methods Completion feature.
- Properly update the Spell Catcher application’s Dock icon on Lion.
- Fixes to long-standing problems extracting the correct name, license code, and e-mail address from text dropped or pasted to the License Manager window.
- Fixes to naming of Ghostwriter files and folders (input method application).
- Worked around bugs in Mac OS X’s Folder Manager that could prevent Scripting Additions from working in the Spell Catcher application.
- Numerous other far more obscure issues.
Version 10.4.1:
Please note that the system requirements have changed!
- Spell Catcher X 10.4.1 requires Mac OS X 10.5 and later, running on Intel Macintosh hardware.
- PowerPC Macintosh users running Mac OS X 10.5 must continue to use Spell Catcher X 10.4 (see 'Related Links' below).
- New Cancel Last Expansion more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Spell Catcher X User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:44,948 |
| Version Downloads:2,136 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:14 Dec 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $39.95 |
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Spell Catcher X is the powerful writing tool preferred by educators, students, writers, bloggers - anyone who writes on their Macintosh. It's the all-in-one writing solution for those who need standardized custom dictionaries for use in all their applications, those that write in multiple languages, and anyone that simply wants to be a faster, more effective writer. Use it in Mac OS X applications such as email, web browsers, instant messaging, Microsoft Word and other word processors, graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop, video and movie programs, databases, spreadsheets and more!
Spell Catcher X's all-in-one-product features include:
Spell Catcher X's all-in-one-product features include:
- Available-everywhere as-you-type (interactive) and after-you've-typed-it (batch) spell checking. Fully integrated with the standard Mac OS X Spelling Panel.
- Comprehensive spelling dictionaries for 16 different languages, with thesaurus look ups in 12 languages. Nine spelling languages and 10 thesaurus databases are included for free!
- Powerful, fast, searchable, state-of-the-art shorthand expansions. Date and time shorthands that are infinitely configurable.
- Two different English-language thesaurus databases available - the "right word" is just a few keystrokes away.
- U.S. English dictionary with definitions.
- If you can't find it in the thesaurus or dictionary definitions, you'll find it on the Internet using Spell Catcher's integrated dictionary server support.
- Spell Catcher X's completion feature finishes what you're typing for you. Not just dictionary words are offered as completions, but shorthands, your personal learned words, thesaurus synonyms, and (saving the best for last), names, email addresses, phone numbers and address information from your Address Book! With Spell Catcher X's Address Book completions, your Address Book is truly available everywhere.
- Spell Catcher X's Ghostwriter offers you "Safety When You Haven't Saved." Ghostwriter saves what you type while you type it, making it possible to recover your work after a crash or other similar disaster. Because it's built on top of an interactive writing tool, Ghostwriter keeps an incredibly accurate, complete, and easy-to-recover account of what you've written.
- Customizable text manipulation tools let you "Modify Selections" of text in many different ways. Clean up badly-formatted email messages, strip excess white space and other characters, make paragraphs out of text with returns at the end of every line. Create your own macros from the basic functions that are included with Spell Catcher X.
- Tailor the way Spell Catcher works to the way you and the applications you use work. Almost every preference can be set on a per-application basis.
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Zoninyc reviewed on 23 Jan 2012
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Pengman reviewed on 07 Jan 2012
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Bigcloits reviewed on 23 Dec 2011
Spell Catcher is a power tool that has to interact with many other technologies on your Mac, and it’s not simple, and it can cause some hassles and headaches.
It’s worth it.
Spell Catcher does a great deal for me that no other application can do. I really could not work without it at this point. Some of its functionality is certainly available in competing products, but nothing bundles it together like Spell Catcher — it’s really an amazing amount of well-done programming in one package.
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http://paul.ingraham.ca/post/14676591990/lion-autocorrect
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Jayme Bertelli reviewed on 23 Dec 2011
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Duncan Adams reviewed on 23 Dec 2011
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I can't find any further explanation of this feature in Spell Catcher Help or on the Spell Catcher web site. From what little they do say it's not clear to me how this feature works. The above description helps me not at all. I like Spell Catcher and have used it for many years, which makes it all the more aggravating when they do such a poor job of explaining new features like this. And I can find no easy way to contact the developer for an explanation. So I'm posting here as a last resort. If a developer is going to implement a new feature in their software the least they own their paid users is a decent explanation of how to use it.
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Evan has always answered my questions promptly via email or through his forum.
Hope this helps.
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Sef6 reviewed on 30 Nov 2011
I’ve recently had a problem with my system and this app (not the app’s fault), and the support I got from the company was outstanding. They solved my system’s problem. I’ve become a very loyal customer because of the combination of product and support.
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Sebastian_szwarc reviewed on 17 Jun 2011
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Tedg reviewed on 11 Jun 2011
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OS 10.5 on a MacBook Pro Intel core 2 duo.
If Spell Catcher works for you, go for it. It's really very good.
Anthonyg rated on 13 May 2012
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Evan Gross rated on 29 Dec 2011
monarch2001 rated on 24 Dec 2011