Saturday, August 2, 2008
Grammar checkers: StyleWriter
This looks like a fascinating product! StyleWriter is a sophisticated grammar checker that looks at your writing and gives a many-dimensioned diagnostic:Words: 93
StyleWriter suggested improvements 17:
· 6 wordy phrases
· 2 complex words
· 3 business clichés
· 5 passive verbs
· 1 long sentence
· 1 grammar error (by yourself)
· 1 hyphenation error (follow-up)
Friday, May 23, 2008
Simple & free screen-capture software
As a technical writer, I often have to take screen captures or "screen shots" to illustrate a software application or system. A convenient and perfectly adequate tool for the job is the freeware program ScreenHunter from WisdomSoft. It's currently up to version 5. If you're willing to pay, you can have a much more versatile version.
Thanks to STC member Ed Beliczynski of ExtendMedia, Inc., who originally recommended ScreenHunter to me and who is a fount of information on low-cost software tools.
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