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Upgrade Complete

We are happy to announce that the spellr.us system has been successfully upgraded.

Changes include:
- Significant usability and processing speed improvements.
- Various bug fixes
- Various feature enhancements.

Outstanding issues: There appears to be a small glitch with outgoing emails - so email reports and login confirmation emails may not currently be received - we are aware of this and looking into this issue.

If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment here or email help@spellr.us .

The spellr.us team.

Update: 3 August 12:15 PM Sydney Australia Time - email is back up and there are no outstanding issues with the upgrade.

Weekend System Maintenance July 30 - August 2 2010

We will be doing some major infrastructure updates to our core backend systems over the weekend July 30 - August 2 2010.

There may be some system downtime at times.  Please be patient with us.  All should be resolved by August 2 2010.

Thanks.

spellr.us Team

spellr.us Upgrade

Ok!

So the new infrastructure has been thoroughly tested and is all in place - we are hoping that by weekend of Saturday 8 August 2010 our brand spanking new infrastructure will be in place for all of our users to use. If there are any delays we will let you know on this blog.

This upgraded system should be blindingly fast and stay blindingly fast.

Our existing system is still a relic of our prototype and it outgrew our client base. A couple of months back we literally started from scratch and built new backend infrastructure that will allow for growth.

The main thing is our system should soon be super fast for all to enjoy.

We appreciate your patience and support.

Kevin, James & the spellr.us team

Infrastructure Upgrade Near Completion

Hi

We are excited to announce that we are in the very final stages of testing our new spellr.us infrastructure. The new version will be made live once we have ironed out any remaining bugs.

We know that at times our system has been under significant load which has caused problems for some users.

We have spent a significant amount of time and resources totally reworking the spellr.us backend infrastructure to allow for lots of future growth. Hopefully all load issues will soon be a thing of the past.

We appreciate your patience - the improved speed and performance will be significant and greatly improve your spellr.us experience.

Please feel free to send any questions to help@spellr.us.

Regards,
Kevin, James & the spellr.us team

New Evidence on the Lack of Web Copy-Editing

Business Insider just posted, “Fact-Checking and Copy-Editing Don’t Happen as Much on the Web,” citing a study conducted by The Columbia Journalism Review that compared publications’ print and web copy-editing standards.  Turns out, 48% of online-only copy is edited less rigorously than print-only copy, while 11% of online-copy is not copy-edited at all!

We had a feeling… good thing Spellr.us is here to help!

View the article here

System Upgrade Update

Hi

Unfortunately the infrastructure upgrade is taking longer than we had anticipated. We will keep you up to date via this blog.

We appreciate your patience. This upgrade will be significant and will remove any performance issues that you are having with your account.

Please feel free to email us at help@spellr.us with any questions.

Infrastructure Upgrade

Hi All

We have been working on upgrading some of our infrastructure - this means that the system will become a lot more responsive and glitch free.

The new infrastructure should all be in place by the end of February.  Thanks for your patience.

Please drop us a line at help@spellr.us if you have any questions.

Thanks.
Kevin

spellr.us Affiliate Program

Did you know that spellr.us has an affiliate program? Well… we do!

Our most recent affiliate, Polon.co.uk has just posted a rather nice landing page promoting our service via an affiliate link. Take a look here.

Polon is a UK based copywriting studio that uses spellr.us to help ensure the quality their web content.

If you’re interested in finding out more about our affiliate program just shoot us an email at help@spellr.us and we’ll send you more details.

An interview with spellr.us founder Kevin Garber at TechCrunch50

Mick Liubinskas from http://www.pollenizer.com/ took a few moments to interview spellr.us’ founder Kevin Garber at TechCrunch50 about the event, Australian companies and the year ahead. We’ve embedded the video interview below. Thanks Mick!

A better spell checker

Here at spellr.us we like to think that we’ve got pretty good at spell checking websites. However, we’ve been frustrated at the text spell checkers available online. They don’t run fast enough or have a clean enough interface.

As a result we decided to try our hand at building a page that spell checks text only. Try our online text spell check here. We’ve included a few cool features like dictionary definitions of suggestions to help you choose better and a clean navigation system for quickly correcting all errors in a piece of text.

Let us know what you think!

Free online text spell check

Our brand new online text spell checker.

 
 
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