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Created on: February 17, 2006 Last Updated: May 14, 2007
There are several good spellcheckers you can use, depending on how and what you want to use it for:
http://www.spellcheck.net/
If you can't or don't want to download anything spellcheck.net is the best option. Just visit the site and cut and paste single words or text up to 20,000 words
http://www.iespell.com/
IEspell is a downloadable toolbar that is added to Internet Explorer for spellchecking anything you input online - particularly useful when completing forms, blogs, helium knowledge answers etc.
http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/
If you want a spellchecker for use with Outlook Express, this is a small download you can try.
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/ispell.html
International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix which supports a large number of languages. UK and US English plus other languages. To add other languages visit http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html and choose the languages you require
http://www.thefreecountry.com/sourcecode/spellcheckers.shtml - This gives you a directory of spellcheckers for writing source code in various computer languages
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