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DESCRIPTION
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:
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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.
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Comprehensive spelling dictionaries for 14 different languages, with thesaurus look ups in 10 languages. Nine spelling languages and 10 thesaurus databases are included for free!
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Powerful, fast, searchable, state-of-the-art shorthand expansions. Date and time shorthands that are infinitely configurable.
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Two different English-language thesaurus databases available - the "right word" is just a few keystrokes away.
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U.S. English dictionary with definitions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 10.3.2 includes updated language plug-ins, important bug fixes, and is recommended for all Spell Catcher X 10.3 and 10.3.1 users.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
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| Spell Catcher X User Reviews (44 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 8 2008 |
ESPIRIDION Worthy update to a great program. This version comes with a variety of improvements and added features that can be found here: http://www.rainmakerinc.com/products/spellcatcherx/whatsnew10_3.html Support is excellent, and the upgrade fee is very reasonable. For those unfamiliar with the program, in addition to being a spell checker, it can also be used to expand frequently used text, get text statistics (e.g., Fog Index and Flesch-Kincaid), manipulate text (e.g., changing case, removing multiple spaces, etc.), use Macros, and more. DirectCorrect is an important new feature. It may not work with all applications, and with some it may not be evident that it works. For example, it may appear that it's no possible to turn it on with a specific application, but when the interface has a field that supports DirectCorrect -like when typing this review or posting on a forum- it becomes possible to turn it on. It pays to read about its features and experiment with it.
(Version 10.3) | |
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 | Oct 7 2008 |
RWEBBER You may try the application without fear of "inability to roll back to the previous application." The website clearly states that updating the license during trial will not prevent returning to the previous version. The post below me is wrong on this.
(Version 10.3) | |
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| Jul 21 2006 |
STICKMAN67 A must-have application. I use a variety of software applications, ranging from typesetting and word-processing, to email, to spreadsheets and databases. Maintaining consistency of spellings across all of these types of apps is critical, but multiple user dictionaries prove to be a pain in the proverbial. Spell Catcher has solved that problem for me, and does its job well and in the background. It's fast, and the dictionaries seem to be very comprehensive so far. The task I'm working on has some pretty technical medical terminology, and the British English medical dictionary is handling it really well. And the one time I've had to contact the developer (an educational pricing query), not only did he contact me very quickly indeed with a very satisfactory answer, but he also apologised for the time it took to reply! I'm impressed, and I recommend Spell Catcher with no reservations.
(Version 10.2.2) | |
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| Dec 15 2008 |
MACSAILOR A great application has become even better with this new version. I can not recommend it enough. It's absolutly one of my favourites among the applications on my MacBook Pro.
(Version 10.3.1) | |
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| Apr 14 2008 |
JOI This is one of the first programs I purchased when I first bought my eMac in 2005. It works great and is simple to use. I place my cursor in this review box... then I just right click on the try icon, select check all and everything is copied to its little edit window. Hit the replace button to replace misspelled words, and then the paste button. Simple...
(Version 10.2.3) | |
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| Mar 9 2006 |
PAULC To call this "just a spell checker" is to ignore three quarters of what it can do for you. For me, the Lookup function (highlight a word, hit a keystroke) returns data from it's own data sources along with publicly accessible data is fabulous. Ever wanted, needed to clean up some text? SCX can do that. Having troubles? Like detailed below, this program has a very actively involved developer... both in responding to issues as well as advancing the software forward. Some may get "scared" by the seemingly daunting array of preferences; understand that this is what allows one to very precisely set the software to function the way they want it to; there's no "the developers way or no way" here. Honestly, this stuff is worth twice what you can get it for.
(Version 10.2.2) | |
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| Feb 18 2006 |
TTLCNTRLPRINT Simply the best spell checker for Mac OS X. This software is a must have if you work in desktop publishing, it works flawlessly with a lot of applications. Fast updates also. Highly recommended. totalcontrolprint
(Version 10.2.2b4) | |
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| Jan 26 2006 |
CHIEFTED Mea culpa, Mea culpa, Mea culpa After getting assistance direct from the developer, and not being able to delete or edit my original feedback on Spell Catcher X I will put a new one up. Works as advertised (once I learned what I was doing was incorrect). One small minor bug in this the beta version but think that maybe again something I am doing. Honestly the support I got from Rainmaker Research has been outstanding! and had I been thinking that is where I should have gone with my problem first. So as it says at the top Mea culpa.
(Version 10.2.2b3) | |
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 | Mar 6 2009 |
CYBORG9 Purchased Spell catcher after trying it out. Worked well for a while. But found that Spell Catcher's alerts functions do not work most of the time on my machine. The developer has no explanation nor a fix. So Spell Catcher is essentially useless to me. 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.
(Version 10.3.2) | |
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| Feb 2 2009 |
OVE Languages available include Danish and Swedish. If my native Norwegian (the third major language of Scandinavia) had been there, too, I would have grabbed this program several years ago. I once mailed the developer about this; unfortunately he could not promise there would ever be any Norwegian language support. Please, "Look to Norway" (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1942). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_to_Norway
(Version 10.3.2) | |
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 | Feb 3 2009 |
EVAN GROSS We're in the process of licensing Norwegian Bokmål. Check our website for news about 3-4 weeks from now.
(Version 10.3.2) | |
| May 11 2009 |
OVE Thank you very much! I just purchased the application on MacZot (50% off today) and will shortly buy the Norwegian add-on dictionary and start working. Thanks again.
(Version 10.3.2) | |
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