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A couple of tweaks

February 10, 2012 /

You’re now able to use various tags that are used with 3rd party software when you’re spinning your articles. What exactly do we have in mind?

Well, some software products out there enable you to use spun articles with tags such as “%LINK1%”, “%LINK2%” etc., and when your articles are distributed or used in some other way these software products replace all %LINKn% tags with a relevant link. Spin Rewriter now makes sure your tags are preserved through the spinning process and are 100% valid and functional once you reach the final step (Step 3) of the spinning process.

On top of that, we’re working on a much faster One-Click Rewrite algorithm that should enable you to rewrite full 500-word articles, using the default “medium” setting, within 20-25 seconds instead of a couple of minutes. Stay tuned! 😀

Spin Rewriter gets a faster user interface

February 6, 2012 /

We believe it’s really important to make sure our users have a good time using Spin Rewriter to rewrite their articles. With this in mind, we applied some changes to the existing user interface.

Spin Rewriter now not only remembers your preferences (so you don’t have to enter them manually each time) and offers the “I’m Feeling Lucky” and “Bulk Rewrite” options, it also adapts to your computer even more. It takes into consideration the speed of your computer and the screen resolution that’s available inside your browser, and it uses these figures to create a perfect user interface for you.

We also decided to go with native browser handles for input-field resizing. You know, those handles in the bottom right corner of every large text input field? These are supported by most modern web browsers (such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, …) by default, and work really well. If you’re using a browser that still doesn’t support native handles, you’ll still be able to use our custom handles, no worries.

On top of that, we optimized and compressed all code that runs inside your browser (we’re mostly talking about JavaScript here, but let’s not get too technical) in order to make Spin Rewriter faster and quicker to load.

Stay tuned, there’s more coming! 😀

Taking care of our Affiliate Partners …

February 3, 2012 /

We updated the Affiliate Program section of our website.

It now comes with a better explanation of the (very simple) process of telling your friends about our product, and it includes 4 great promotional videos with YouTube embed codes if you decide to embed them on your website.

In the very near future, we’ll also improve the affiliate reporting even further and given you more control over all aspects of our Affiliate Program.

“I’m Feeling Lucky” will make your spinning even easier

February 1, 2012 /

We figured the “One-Click Rewrite” option might not cut it in some extreme cases … With it, you have to enter your article, proceed to Step 2 (your article is analyzed at this point), click the One-Click Rewrite button, wait for a minute or so, and then finalize your article. That’s 3 clicks and a minute or two of your time.

Well, we can do even better than that. 😉

With Friday’s Major Update 1 we introduced the “I’m Feeling Lucky” option. What does it look like? You enter your article and click one button – approximately 15 seconds later it’s been rewritten and finalized and you’re looking at it inside your Archive. It’s as easy as that! 😀

One-Click Rewrite preferences are now saved automatically

January 31, 2012 /

Many of you have contacted us saying that you weren’t the biggest fans of having to manually select the “One-Click Rewrite” settings each time you were working on a new article. We figured that was quite understandable, and we decided to help you out. 😀

With Friday’s update, various settings such as:

  • One-Click Rewrite confidence (should it try to find as many synonyms as possible, or only pick the most relevant ones)
  • One-Click Rewrite protected keywords
  • One-Click Rewrite single-level or multi-level spinning
  • should the “Top” button pick only the best synonyms, or those that are relatively okay as well
  • …

are now automatically remembered by our software. This means you can “set it and forget it” – once you find the settings that work best for you, you never have to manually adjust them again.

You can now pick one-level spinning only

January 30, 2012 /

One of the most requested features over the last couple of months was the option to limit the One-Click Rewrite process to one-level spins. Basically, this means that Spin Rewriter only rewrites your articles on the first level and not on multiple levels – if that’s what you need. Some article distribution software products out there don’t support nested spinning syntax, and in this case the new feature really comes in handy.

By selecting the “single-level no-nested-spinning” option, you only get the phrase “cable television” inside “Cable television is a fine invention.” rewritten as “Cable {television|TV} is a fine invention.” and not as “{Cable {television|TV}|Cable} is a fine invention.” which uses two levels of spinning.

Not only does this new option come with the One-Click Rewrite process, we’ve also integrated it with our official Spin Rewriter API and updated the API documentation. We hope it serves you well! 😉

Spin Rewriter has gotten more careful and more meticulous

January 25, 2012 /

We just improved the sub-system that’s in charge of determining whether Spin Rewriter is confident enough about the exact meaning of a word that can represent more than one thing or not, and we’ve fine-tuned it in a way that will produce even better results when you go with the One-Click Rewrite option from now on.

On top of that, we’ve taken care of those annoying little grammar-related issues that our users have been reporting for a while now. You remember how Spin Rewriter sometimes used the misspelled words “developped” and “compeled” as past tense forms of verbs “develop” and “compel” and how it sporadically turned “await” into “awaitting”? Well, this doesn’t happen anymore – it’s all been fixed with this update.

You can expect this update to go live with all other updates that belong to the Major Update, scheduled for January 27th. 😉

Let’s give all synonyms a fighting chance!

January 23, 2012 /

Over the last couple of months of closely inspecting everything that’s going on with Spin Rewriter, we’ve noticed a phenomenon that should most certainly be taken care of. It’s probably best if I simply give an example of the issue here, and you’ll see why it’s an important one.

Say you have a certain word (meaning) that comes with 30 synonyms. Usually at least some of these synonyms are not good enough, or not general enough, to be seriously considered, but you’re still left with 15 good synonyms and 2 great ones. Well, Spin Rewriter users tend to quickly select only the top 2-4 synonym on average, and even though there’s 10 more good synonyms available, those synonyms are usually never selected! Spin Rewriter sees that these synonyms are never selected and thinks “well, they must be no good then” and simply stops suggesting them, and certainly doesn’t include them when it’s doing a One-Click Rewrite of your articles.

That’s a bit, well, unfair to those synonyms. That’s why we designed a system that will sporadically bump up some of those forgotten synonyms so they’ll appear immediately below the top ones when you’re picking your synonyms. This way you might notice them and select them, and Spin Rewriter will know that those synonyms are, in fact, good as well.

There’s quite a bit of magic involved in all of this, but we’re certain we’re going to see some absolutely great results with this new approach. This update will be rolled out on Friday, with our Major Update! 😉

Stay tuned! 😀