Download A Trial Version Of Whitesmoke

Editing texts in English is a challenge, especially for those who are still learning how to master this foreign language. The grammar and spelling of any language is unique in its own way, so it can take time until you become able to freely express your thoughts in any language you have studied. Even those who are native speakers often have to invest time and resources in order to establish a style that they find appropriate. So, sometimes it’s good to know you can rely on a third party to guide you. However, tutors are expensive, so at times you can rely only on yourself if you have no idea what other possibilities are available.

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Speaking of possibilities, the software market has evolved a lot in the past years and has made available more than one tool. A first computer application on which you can rely when you need to edit text in a language like English is Microsoft Word. I’m sure that, until now, you have used this application more than just a few times and you have discovered that it’s quite skillful when it comes to detecting grammar and spelling issues. At times, the suggestions it makes can even improve the quality of your style. However, this is not the only tool you should take into consideration. The list of possibilities also includes WhiteSmoke, a software tool especially designed for the analysis of text written in English. Its capabilities extend to the evaluation of grammar and spelling as well as to the improvement of the style. WhiteSmoke will even count the number of words you repeat in order to help you get rid of annoying habits that result in the obsessive repetition of a certain word or phrase. At times, you will see that its features are able to defeat the capabilities of Microsoft Word and deliver better results. That’s why you should consider at least installing a trial version and testing its capabilities.

The 2010 version of WhiteSmoke can be downloaded as free trial from more than one website specialized in providing end users with software solutions. You will be able to try its capabilities for 7 days and only then decide if it’s worth investing money in this tool. You will discover that the main goal of WhiteSmoke is to help your writing skills. It’s not an app that you can use for the purpose of editing text. You should consider it to be a helper that can study the English-written text you enter and let you know what changes you should make in order to improve your style. What you like the most is that WhiteSmoke has the ability to adapt to your writing needs. That’s because it makes available more than one writing profile, each one defined by a certain dictionary and spelling database. That means you will also receive suggestions that apply to the nature and content of the written text, so that you don’t waste time selecting through useless information. If these details have managed to get you interested to some extent, let’s discover together other capabilities and features that WhiteSmoke makes available.

Features of WhiteSmoke 2010

The main feature that was added to WhiteSmoke 2010 makes available the possibility to get an idea of your text’s quality by viewing scores. This feature is called “Writing Review” and is designed to computer score for different categories that are relevant for the quality of your writing. For example you will receive a score for sentence length, one for the complexity of words, another for the number of passive construction you have used and so on. The number you will notice represents a value between 0 and 10, so as expected if you keep getting closer to 10 that means the quality of your writing has improved.

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What I also find necessary to analyze is the quality of the user interface made available. If you will take the time to compare WhiteSmoke from this point of view with other similar tools available on the market, you will come to the conclusion that the interface is considerably friendlier. It not only easy to get your text analyzed, but also to interpret the results reported. For each type of error, a color is assigned, so one look it’s all it takes t realize what’s going on. If the color is green, that means something is wrong with your grammar, if the color is red that means you’ve failed to correctly spell a word and if the color is blue you should see what’s not too ok about your style. The only downside is that no “Cancel” button is available. You will only be able to click “Check” in order to have the txt analyzed and “Apply” in order to integrate the software’s suggestion in your text.

Customer support is extremely important to any kind of program. This is the ultimate test in setting apart serious manufacturers that help out the customer in every way they can, and then there are those “ghost” companies that sell you a crackpot of a software that does more damage than good, and naturally, after you’ve paid nice and well, you wait for a month before you get a vague and inconsistent answer to your problem.

WhiteSmoke delivers only the best service there is in this chapter as well. If you’ve got any kind of problems with your software whatsoever, you can send an email to the customer support team and they will reply in no time. For instance, just for the heck of it, I reported some made up problems with the spell checking. I immediately received an answer that was both crystal clear and pertinent. It told me exactly where to go because he assumed that I accidentally deactivated the spell check notification. This not only showed me that they are serious. It also provided the parameters for a more than solid comparison with other software. In terms of customer support online help, they are the best of the lot.

Usage and Performance of WhiteSmoke 2010

What is the point of having a program that is super fast, super intelligent or super useful, if you have only a few platforms on which to run it? Compatibility issues are the bane of so many useful programs. Since Windows is considered the number one operating system in the world (in number of uses) most programs are developed for that platform first. The mistake most software developers do is that the develop software for the Windows based platform and… leave it at that. Because of that, there are millions of Mac or Linux users that cannot benefit from the same programs due to compatibility issues.

Once again WhiteSmoke proved to be above such problems. It was developed to work with just about any kind of text editor. Naturally I didn’t try all of them, since there must be thousands out there, but I’ve tested it on some of the most common. Well, what can I say, it worked on all of them. No matter whether I went with Microsoft Office (2003, 2007, 2010) or I’ve used several email accounts such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook and other email providers. Furthermore, WhiteSmoke proved to be compatible even with the open source Open Office and Word Perfect. That is certainly something to keep over the competition.

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Naturally, with every purchase you make, you always love it when you get a little something as extra or bonus. Well WhiteSmoke manufacturers found it in their hearts to provide over 600 templates free of charge, as a bonus with every copy of the program. These templates are extremely useful when you’re dealing with multiple variations on the same type of documents and all of them are already made. It’s a true time savers. You only need to complete “the dotted line” and the document is already done. You also gain access to their own English Portal where you’ll find a huge stack of English lessons good for the taking.

All these useful and wonderful tools come at a … heavy price. And I mean that literally because WhiteSmoke costs no less than $89.95. That is NOT cheap. Think about it, for about the same amount of money you can get Microsoft Office which throws in their own free spell checker. But if you want to do some serious writing and you’re not very good with the English language, you will want to purchase this kind of tools.

Conclusions

All in all WhiteSmoke is a highly intelligent and complex program that can provide more than enough tools and tweaks, to “tweak” your English skills a bit and take you to a higher level. Because of the high number of English lessons and specialized color coded spelling correctors, you will learn the rights and wrongs of the English language in no time. Give WhiteSmoke a try. Buy Now!