I will go ahead and let it be known now. I am a writer and I suck at spelling. There really should be more support groups out there for folks like me. You would think there are more that are out there. I just think that many of them are ashamed to let it be known. That might be the case. Maybe though, these folks have found the SpellBound spell checker for Firefox.

Here is what the author of the SpellBound Firefox extension had to say about it:

SpellBound is a port of the spell checker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite’s Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html text area / input elements (html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound) and rich text form elements.

This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board posts, blog entries, wysiwyg, etc.) before submitting them when using your Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Suite browser.

The install Web page for the extension makes the process almost painless, so there is no worries about getting it onto your computer the right way. They also have a few screenshots available for you to view as well, before you put it on your machine.

So what is the moral of the story? These days it is perfectly acceptable for a writer to not be the best speller in the world. We all make mistakes, and SpellBound helps us check for those mistakes before our words are taken to the outside world.

My only real opinion about Adam Curry is that he ruined the Headbanger’s Ball. Past that, I have never read much of what he writes. I have never even heard his podcast. (Does that in turn make me a “bad podcaster”?) I do have to say though that if this is true, shame on Mr. Curry.

Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation.

If true, I think somebody’s ego finally got bigger than his hair.

I’m not the only guy out there finding the best the Web hosting world has to offer you. One of my favorite resources for new and exciting Web hosting related Web sites is Web Host Magazine and Buyers Guide’s editors’ choice awards. The editors over there have made a few picks for November, so I thought I’d share my opinions on these top picks.

Htmlarea.com

Htmlarea.com is one of the best and easiest to use WYSIWYG editor directories out there today. There’s no clutter and no mess, they just get right to work with letting you know what choices are out there today in the WYSIWYG world. They also have a selection of color selectors, date pickers, menu builders and more. Htmlarea.com now showcases more than 150 WYSIWYG editors, content managers, and portal software. Htmlarea.com also offers a forum for developers to discuss the positives and the negatives of the various WYSIWYG editors and to help with problems that arise. If that doesn’t qualify it for the award, I don’t know what else would.

Freewebs

There are a lot of Free Hosts out on the Net, but few can offer the same things that Freewebs does. Blogs, polls, ecommerce, site promotion, photo albums and collections, site builder tool, web form builders, and a lot more are but a small taste of the things that Freewebs includes with their free hosting plan. Freewebs has been around since 2001 and has the experience and longevity few Free Hosts can claim.

StartLogic

With an overwhelming assortment of Web Hosts on the Internet today, StartLogic stands tall. StartLogic’s hosting solutions come with an impressive list of features along with plenty of data-transfer. Toll-free phone and email support is available 24/7 and technical support is knowledgeable. StartLogic provides a complete and powerful hosting service with the right amount of features and excellent support.

Our Media

Vlogging, or Video Blogging, has become a very popular medium for Web enthusiast around the world. Our Media is a Free vlog Host that provides a full set of features to include RSS player, Site Publisher, and more. Our Media is not just a free vlog Host however, they also allow free photo gallery and music hosting as well.

eLineStudio

eLineStudio’s Site Composer is a browser, control-panel based Site building tool. Site Composer uses the ASP programming language to organize your Web sites contents based on multiple content categories, to share and collaborate on documents found on your Web site, to build a self-maintaining Site map, and a lot more. Site Composer is a comprehensive site building and managing tool.

The editors also love to get suggestions, so if you have a Web site that you think deserves to get praised, let them know about it.

The Web Host Magazine and Buyers Guide Editors’ Choice award is something ever Web hosting or Web development Web site should strive to get. It really is the only “mark of excellence” the Web hosting industry has right now. It is something any Web site should be proud to show off as well. How do I know? Well, the Web Hosting Show is a former winner of this award as well.

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Find yourself hitting Ctrl-S when you are typing in text areas on the Internet? You aren’t alone. Many folks suffer from this each and every day. Now with Scribe, you clicking can really come to some good use. The Scribe Firefox extension allows you to save text fields as documents on your computer.

Scribe really does add word processor functionality to your Firefox browser. You can open and save form entries as files. You can also quickly save to a local file as you type.

Some of the features include: Save form entries to a local Scribe XHTML file; Load form entries from a Scribe XHTML file; Overrides Ctrl-S so you can quickly save as you type; The Scribe html file is a normal XHTML document – You can edit long posts in your favorite HTML or text editor then use Scribe to load it back into the web form.

Thanks to Scribe, you will never lose a post again due to your internet connection being dropped or laptop battery going out. After using it for a while, I am convinced that this functionality should be built into every browser out there in the market.

Still not convinced? Go check out some screenshots of it in action. This one extension nearly doubles the usability of Firefox. If you write on the Web as much as I do, you almost don’t need a secondary text editor. It really is that good.