One of the reasons I enjoy OS X is the system-wide spell-checker that's available in any application built to include this function (an easy thing to do with Apple's developer tools). Topher, an avid ...

Today in studies that claim the Internet is ruining our lives, the BBC informs us that auto-correct and spellcheckers have turned us into a bunch of illiterate idiots. But our spelling has been ...

Computer spell checks have created an ‘auto-correct generation’ unable to spell common words such as ‘necessary’ and ‘separate’, a survey has found. Only one in five adults out of 2,000 who took a ...

Gmail will already highlight words you've accidentally misspelled with a red squiggly line. But soon, Google's email service will auto-correct some spelling mistakes as you type using its AI -powered ...

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard includes a number of new text-related features, including automatic spelling correction and text substitution. These features are supported in Apple-supplied applications ...

With the Amazon Kindle Fire priced at only $199, it is no longer a surprise why many people find this as the better option compared to the overhyped Apple iPad. As such, there are already a million ...

Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for searchers to jump to sub-sections of a web page and ...

Today in studies that claim the Internet is ruining our lives, the BBC informs us that auto-correct and spellcheckers have turned us into a bunch of illiterate idiots. But our spelling has been ...