The pervasive automatic spell-checking in Microsoft's Office product line has had the net effect of making me a lazy… and lousy… speller. That can be a problem when I enter text in a system like my blog, which uses an HTML ![[WikiPedia]](http://www.mikeyp.com/css/external.gif)
textarea element for input.
Fortunately, there is a really nice spell-checker plug-in for Internet Explorer called ieSpell. When you right-click on a text field, it adds a simple menu item that allows you to check the spelling in the field. It works with the custom.dic dictionary used by MS Office, and you can configure it to skip word patterns like WikiWords (aka CamelCase ).
Best of all, you can't beat the price: free for individual use (preferably with a donation).
UPDATE: Looks like the new Google Toolbar beta 3 has a built-in spell-checker.
