Published on September 26, 2004 By Keith Perry In Misc
It is an unfortunate reality that people will usually judge you as uneducated when they often see spelling mistakes in your compositions. Spelling checkers are now a must for people who write using computers.

Spelling checkers are usually included with top word processors like Microsoft Word, but the thing is, you don’t want to open Word just to type a small memo or simple notes. Sometimes Notepad is enough for simple tasks.

For a simple work around with these limitations you can simply just fire up Notepad and download a small utility called tinySpell v1.3. This utility is compatible with all Windows versions, is freeware, and eats almost no system resources at all.

All you need to do is start the application and type your notes or memos from any word processor. If you make a spelling error, the program will beep to alert you of the mistake. Just click on the application on the system tray and it will give you word recommendations for automatic spell change.

This app works not only on Notepad or Wordpad but on every word processor in the Windows environment; it even works when typing from Internet Explorer, Opera, or Firefox.

With tinySpell you will never have to worry about spelling mistakes even if you use word processors with no spelling checker. A word of warning though, this program should only be used for small writing chores and definitely not for novels or long documents.

I have been running tinySpell now worry free for about three days, with no spyware or adware attached to the application. I highly recommend tinySpell. Memory usage is at 1,700 roughly in the background and hardly noticeable. The only thing annoying about this app. is the constant beeping when typing typo after typo.

tinySpell can be found here http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/

Comments
on Sep 26, 2004
Looks like a cool utility to have.
on Sep 26, 2004
Looks like a great tool. For typing emails and on forums (and blogs!) I also use IEspell. It is a little plugin for IE that acts as a spell checker to anything you type on a page. Don't have the url off the top of my head, but a Google for iespell will get you there.
on Sep 26, 2004
Thanks BlueDev, I have that too, but for some reason it will not work for me in Outlook Express, or IRC Chat (#stardock). tinySpell works everywhere.
on Jan 30, 2005
I have been using tiny spell for awhile, and it works great, thanks for sharing this, Sir MiNDTRiPP!