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Jack, John and Mack are three very close friends. Jack is new to writing and has just started a blog on “Adventure Places”, John on the other hand is a Business Analyst who spends a large portion of his work writing documents and Mack is into IT consulting. All three of them meet at their regular coffee shop.

Jack poses an interesting question to John and Mack. He asked them as to how he could improve the quality of postings he was doing and make sure that his posts are grammatically very correct and that he was using the proper adjectives and words? John suggested him to keep a dictionary and thesaurus handy all the time as that is what he does. Mack on the other hand suggested Jack and John to try out a very neat tool from WhiteSmoke. He asked them to try out the free version which was available as a Google gadget here.

I was of course sitting next to them on a smaller table and having my cup of regular coffee (2 milk and 3 sugar). I could not help but try the tool. 

The tool nicely sits on your Google home page and provides a text box in which you can cut and paste the content you have written (or you can even write it up there) and hit the “Go” button to get the text analyzed. 

It extensive feature library allows you to:

• Achieve perfect English grammar in your writing with English grammar check, English grammar corrector, and English grammar lessons.
• Instantly enrich your writing with relevant adjectives, adverbs, and phrases.
• Enhance plain sentences with precise, smart synonyms from extensive synonyms dictionary.
• Check and correct spelling with vast dictionaries and spell checker.

The tool comes up with recommendations in the same window and you can choose to apply them or not (refer to figures below)

The commercial version of the software which can be obtained from here, has much more elaborate features like:

• Check and refine what you have written with proper punctuation rules using punctuation checker.
• Perfect English grammar and every other aspect of your writing with the proofreader.
• Fill in professional templates for the perfect business writing and any other correspondence.
• Use WhiteSmoke with your favorite programs:
  • Outlook
  • Outlook Express
  • Word
  • Office
  • Notepad
  • WordPad
  • WordPerfect
  • MS Works
  • MS ACCESS
  • ICQ
  • Incredimail
  • Quicken
  • Web mail
  • Netscape
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Internet Explorer

WhiteSmoke is compatible with Windows 98/ Windows ME/ Windows2000/ Windows XP and they seem to have a separate version for Mac users too.

The tool even though very effective, cannot replace a good writer and many a times you will have to use your own discretion (but it does give you some nice options)

I would recommend you to try to use it, definitely makes your life easier, but keep your eyes open. I hope Jack had success with the tool!

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