Ghotit Seeks Mac OS X Developer

By Ricky Buchanan • March 4, 2009

Ghotit is a spelling checker especially designed for those with spelling and language issues, especially dyslexia. It will pick up, for example, the mistakes in a sentence like “I will meat you their tomorrow” where a regular spell checker would miss these as each individual word is correctly spelled.

Until recently Ghotit (pronounced “Got it”) has only been available on the website, but they’ve recently released a plugin for MS Word for Windows. Plugins for the Windows versions of Firefox, MS Outlook, and MS Explorer are due to be released shortly.

I’ve been contacted by Ofer Chermesh, one of Ghotit’s founders, about writing a plugin so Ghotit can be used by OS X users. He writes:

Ghotit is looking for ways to develop Ghotit plugins for Mac and I wonder if you will be willing to point me out to developers you think can
do the job.

Ghotit doesn’t have any financing and works with plugin developers on the base of revenue sharing.

Ghotit’s online service is free to use, but a login costuing US$10 per month is required to use the plugins. Educational institutes, however, will always be able to use the Ghotit plugins for free.

If you would be able to help with programming plugins for OS X, you can contact Ofer via email.

- Ricky Buchanan

Categories: Developers, Neurologically Impaired, OS X, Request
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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

One Comment For “Ghotit Seeks Mac OS X Developer”

atmacjournal (Ricky Buchanan) Mar 4th, 2009 at 7:09 am

On ATMac now: Ghotit Seeks Mac OS X Developer http://is.gd/lI65

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