PITTSBURGH (AP) -- How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button. A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may ...

Get more out of the spell-checker built into Firefox and add spell-checking to Internet Explorer via the free IE7Pro add-on. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

You may know how to spell every word in the dictionary, but speedy typing fingers may introduce subtle spelling errors your eyes might miss. In the competitive business world where first, second and ...

The death rate of words has apparently increased recently while new entries into languages are becoming less common, both perhaps because of digital spell-checking, according to a Google-aided ...

A new window will open where Firefox will check for updates. If updates are available, they will be applied to Firefox automatically. After the installation of updates, you have to restart Firefox. If ...

Q: I’m using Windows 10 and recently downloaded DuckDuckGo from Chrome. When I misspell a word, it gives me a link that takes me to another page to find the correct spelling. Spell check in Chrome ...

You can configure Microsoft Office Outlook to handle multiple email services and accounts, such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail; sending emails is a trivial task and the program even helps you catch spelling ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I’m using Windows 10, and recently downloaded DuckDuckGo from Chrome. When I misspell a word, it gives me a ...

Perhaps the most obvious way to build a spell checker is by simply looking up each word in a dictionary. With modern hardware this wouldn’t be too hard, but disks in the ’70s were extremely slow and ...

For most of us who didn’t do well in high school English class, spell checkers are a real game-changer. Sure, you can still swap a “to” and a “too,” but a spell checker will catch a lot of typos. But ...

Hard on the heels of last week’s release of the Chrome 25 browser into the Stable Channel, Google on Tuesday pushed its eventual successor—Chrome 26—into beta. Whereas Chrome 25 was most notable for ...