Tag: spinner

Minor API issues… (resolving!)

Our latest database server update decided to play a little game with us, as it would sometimes use an incorrect timezone setting for some of the queries… which means that sometimes the codebase and the database server disagreed about the current time to the tune of 4 hours.

While the rest of the server infrastructure knew it was supposed to run on New York time, the database server sometimes mistakenly hopped over to the default UTC (+0 offset) and introduced a couple of glitches into our API system.

Now that we’ve localized (heh) the source of the issue, we’re already working on a resolution and everything should be back to normal quickly.

Big things coming!

Without saying too much, I feel the need to post this short quip about the latest news on Spin Rewriter:

BIG things are coming!

We’ve just finished laying down the roadmap for the 9.0 version of Spin Rewriter which we’re planning to release in October, just like we have for the past 6 years or so. (Prior to that, version updates were on a different schedule.)

The changes that we’ve got planned for 9.0 (and the development of which is well underway!) are going to be absolutely amazing, and I personally CAN’T WAIT to show them what we’re working on.

And now — it’s back to work for us! 😀

Our API just got a speed boost!

You know how Spin Rewriter comes with a super powerful API that lets you use the full power of our ENL Semantic Spinning technology from within other apps, and other software tools?

Well, we just rewrote and optimized some core parts of our API endpoint service, which means — in practice — that your API requests will now process even more quickly. I’m sure that for some of our heaviest users, this will be quite a game-changer! 😀

Perfect Tense integration: huge success!

As I mentioned in my previous post, we’ve now successfully rolled out our deep integration with Perfect Tense and their mind-boggling gramar & spelling correction technology to all of our users.

We’ve also released a demo video that demonstrates its full power, and what the combination of Spin Rewriter and Perfect Tense is going to do for your content creation needs. You can watch the video here:

https://www.spinrewriter.com/perfect-tense-integration

And you can also grab full access to Perfect Tense here…

 

Our amazing Perfect Tense integration is just days away…

Our internal tests of the brand-new Perfect Tense integration right inside your Spin Rewriter control panel are incredibly promising — which leads me to believe we’re just days away from enabling the Perfect Tense integration for all our users on our production servers.

We’ll definitely roll out full support for Perfect Tense before the end of February, along with some demo videos that will truly demonstrate its full power, and what the combination of Spin Rewriter and Perfect Tense will do for your content creation needs. It’s going to be truly mind-boggling! 😀

Stay tuned! #exciting

New icons for a sleeker user interface

We’ve just rolled out a design update of some of the most commonly used Spin Rewriter user interface elements.

This also means that some elements just received brand-new, shiny icons to make your experience even more intuitive and satisfying. In addition to that, based on multiple internal split-tests we’ve also streamlined some workflows to work even better for our customers.

We think you’re gonna love these updates! 😀

Handling of the “Title Case”

As a content creator, you might’ve already heard of “Title Case” — so, what is it?

It’s also known as “headline style” or “capital case” and it’s mostly used in, well, titles. I’m talking about the capitalization of almost every individual word in titles, with some minor exceptions, described here:

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/capitalization/rules-for-capitalization-in-titles.html

So, what does this have to do with Spin Rewriter? Actually, quite a bit.

Let me give you an example. Let’s look at an article with the following hypothetical title:

Guitar Lessons for Beginners

Now, if you use an automated article spinner, the software might replace the word “Guitar” with “Electric guitar”. Because the original word started with an uppercase letter, the suggest synonym does as well: “Electric guitar”.

But once you actually use the suggested synonym, you get this:

Electric guitar Lessons for Beginners

This is pretty good, but it’s not quite perfect. Obviously the word “guitar” should also start with an uppercase letter, giving us:

Electric Guitar Lessons for Beginners

Well, with the latest update to Spin Rewriter, our core algorithm now recognizes the context of Title Case in virtually every case, and makes sure the capitalization of suggested synonyms makes perfect sense.

I’m sure you’re going to love this new feature. 😀

Parentheses: Tricky stuff!

Just last week we were tipped off about a minor issue that some of our users were seeing when working with numeric strings such as phone numbers inside Spin Rewriter…

With just the right mix of parentheses and numbers, Spin Rewriter sometimes tripped a bit over its own cleverness and jumbled some of the resulting spun text. Here’s an example that used to give it a bit of a headache:

This sample (462718) 555-1212 phone number can
also be written as (462) 718 5551212.

This particular combination of ( and ) in combination with numbers (462…) and dashes (555-1212) lead to a slighly unexpected result – but no more. 😀 We’ve just fixed this minor glitch, and made Spin Rewriter even more powerful. Enjoy! 😀

Even better handling of plural forms

Spin Rewriter has always been famous for not simply treating words as groups of letters, but for being able to actually extract the precise meaning of each individual word and treat each word exactly like a human writer would. This includes correct handling of plural forms of certain nouns that don’t behave quite like most other nouns out there.

We’ve just rolled out an update that makes Spin Rewriter even better when it comes to pluralizing some words — and knowing which ones NOT to pluralize at all. Here’s just some examples of what we mean:

Furniture
Information
Knowledge
Jewelry
Homework
Marketing
Livestock
Education
Courage
Bravery
Luck
Cowardice
Greed
Clarity
Honesty
Evidence
Insurance
Butter
Love
News
Curiosity
Satisfaction
Work
Mud
Weather
Racism
Sexism
Patriotism
Chaos
Scenery
Help
Advice
Water
Fun
Wisdom
Silence
Sugar
Coal
Spelling
Money

None of these words should ever get pluralized — and especially not by simply slapping an “s” or “es” to the end of them. It takes nuance to get these things right — and that’s exactly what Spin Rewriter is famous for. 😀

Updated exports and dowloads

We’ve just rolled out yet another quality-of-life improvement when it comes to using Spin Rewriter.

If you’re looking to download multiple articles from your Archive of spun articles inside Spin Rewriter, you no longer need to download each individual article separately. With this most recent update, you can now simply select multiple articles inside your Archive and click the “Download Articles …” button that appears automatically — and all of your selected spun articles will be instantly downloaded to your computer.

Go ahead & give it a try, it’s pretty cool! 😀