Faster Web Searching and better spell check.
Gary North gives you a tip for searching the web.
I have discovered on my own a better way to find the correct spelling of most anything...blows away spell check by light years.
If your browser has search suggestions available...type the word you want to spell correctly...like always, get as close as you can and the search suggestions gives you the correct spelling 99% of the time...words that spell check gets wrong, words that spell check doesn't know...which is a lot!
I have discovered on my own a better way to find the correct spelling of most anything...blows away spell check by light years.
If your browser has search suggestions available...type the word you want to spell correctly...like always, get as close as you can and the search suggestions gives you the correct spelling 99% of the time...words that spell check gets wrong, words that spell check doesn't know...which is a lot!
A spell checker ( or your suggestion ) would certainly be an improvement, but it won't catch a mistaken homophone, like "there", when the writer really means "their" or "they're".
What's sad about this is that most of the posters supposedly have at least a grade-school educaton. How did they ever pass English???
I seem to catch most after "Reply" has been clicked...
"off of" rather than jumping from.
Here's one of the samples I had written of homophone madness:
Whether or not you’re tied in a knot over your writing, or in a daze since days of yore when the fowl fretted over foul weather, though the spelling is great, homophone errors grate! There are many who don’t notice they’re choosing their words incorrectly, thus here we hear in a count to two, too many wrong forms. We’re tired of cases where the wrong word doesn’t wear well. So, sow your words with care to sew your thoughts together, and by Yule, you’ll halve your errors and have won; and one can’t dun you when your writing is done.
I have also noticed my typing has gotten worse since I started blogging. I very well may have to drop out while typing the next book. Right now it is not a problem because I am hand writing so I capture my emotional intent via word choices.
Fe, ts is wt I tp, aa it cgg to tt. Which becomes, while I type it: For example, this is what I type, and it changes to that.
It’s a tradeoff of lots of typing at the expense of my memory capabilities (and keeping a good cheat sheet of my abbreviations, just in case.)
Alternatively, you might want to try a text-to-speech application such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which is what I’m using to type this paragraph. With a good microphone, its recognition level is close to that of a human being, and it applies context rules that can avoid many homophone problems. It may choose the wrong word, but it will never misspell what it transcribes.
(Mozilla browser doesn't have the features either, so don't suggest I try it again.)
The original developers of Opera left to create their own browser when the switch to chrome occurred and they created Vivaldi. It has most of the Opera features I liked and is fast and reliable.
Opera (old ver 12.17) has a spell checker (right-click) that I use sometimes when typing a post but it doesn't make suggestions for spell correction.
The comments are also interesting.
Forgot to mention that the address bar in both Opera and Vivaldi does do a keyword search using the search engine that you select as a default. Both come with ability to use about 7 search engines and you can add more if you wish. You can select a different engine from the default on the fly by prefacing your keywords with a one letter code and a space. For example, google is 'g', yahoo is 'y', startpage is 's', etc.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Government....doing a search using the URL bar takes the actual search out of the possibly secure and runs all of completely through the NSA mined stuff. No thanks, I will stick to Startpage.com
seems to me HBD that we're screwed no matter what we do...
startpage provides an https: secure encrypted front end, also they do not store your ip addresses.. Although if you are tech savvy enough you can get an offshore VM that you VPN to and do your surfing through that...then SCRE the Feds...
Get yourself an offshore VM, install solid firewalls on it, then access the dark web through onion routers and do your surfing there.
Virtually impossible for the Feds to track you there no matter what your doing.;
Somewhat more for fun than direct information: type in an address with some interesting terrain, say Empire State Building, and click the little square Earth button that might appear toward the lower left of your screen. Okay, a satellite view. Nice enough.
BUT!
Hold down your shift key while you click and drag your mouse to tilt and/or rotate the view. You might not have known that there’s 3D content with sides and parallax in them thar hills. Or at least in many interesting places. If your mouse has a wheel, you can also scroll in and out and do all sorts of amazing things. Give it some time to load all the sides of the buildings.
Try it typing Ahwanee Hotel, surrounded by the mountains of the Yosemite Valley. Give it time to load the rock walls for Half Dome or El Capitan.
Or Miami. Zoom in S.E. of the airport on Downtown at the corner by the water, tilt, and give it time to load the buildings. And the cruise ships at the Terminal Island.
Or Dead Horse Point. You can go over the cliff edges like Thelma and Louise did there, but it’s safe in the virtual Google world.
If you want more control of where you can go and view, with many local pictures available, do all this in Google Earth instead of Google Maps. You can also go past shorelines and under the ocean surface. Monterey Bay has an unusually deep chasm where you wouldn't expect it, going from the Aquarium to Santa Cruz on the water surface.
Cool!
Duh, me old dino not know me could do dat.
Why Magic Mountain? Never even been there. Just popped into my rusty old dino head.
So did "zip my bippy" come to think of it.