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A tiny little update …

February 20, 2012 / Aaron

Today we’re introducing a tiny little update that might make your lives a little bit easier.

Word counting in Step 1 has been improved quite a bit. For instance, if you entered “John is late.”, our system (correctly) returned “3 words”.

However, if your original article contained some existing spinning syntax, such as “John is { always | usually } late.”, our system didn’t really work that well. Because the spintax characters (“{“, “}” and “|”) have a space on both sides, it simply counted them as words as well. This means that it returned “8 words” instead of (the correct value) “5 words”.

Well, that’s now fixed! 😀

Happy Valentine’s Day ;)

February 14, 2012 / Aaron

We just wanted to say that we love you all. Ain’t that sweet? 😀 😀 😀

On top of that, we took care of a couple of minor issues, the most significant one has to do with plural nouns. Spin Rewriter has become intelligent enough to form correct plural forms of nouns such as “nebula” (nebulae), “housewife” (housewives), “crisis” (crises), “appendix” (appendices), “criterion” (criteria), “alumnus” (alumni) and of course the more common “child” (children), “goose” (geese) etc.

Have a lovely Valentine’s! 😀

A couple of tweaks

February 10, 2012 / Aaron

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! 😀

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

February 1, 2012 / Aaron

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! 😀

Spin Rewriter gets the “Bulk Rewrite” option!

January 31, 2012 / Aaron

That’s right, from now on Spin Rewriter can rewrite multiple articles with one single click!

We’ve added the option of entering multiple articles at the very beginning of the spinning process, clicking the “Start the Bulk-Rewriting Process!” button and having multiple articles spun automatically.

Once your articles are ready, you’re simply taken to your Archive, where finished and thoroughly spun articles are waiting for you. 😉

One-Click Rewrite preferences are now saved automatically

January 31, 2012 / Aaron

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 / Aaron

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! 😉

First Spin Rewriter Major Update is LIVE!

January 27, 2012 / Aaron

We just rolled out the most important batch of updates since we first launched Spin Rewriter back in September 2011 – we’re calling it the “Major Update 1“.

What’s new? Here’s just a couple of things:

user feedback is much more filtered now – Spin Rewriter will no longer pick up bad habits and misspelled words from its users
improved differentiation between similar meanings of words with multiple meanings
One-Click Rewrite now generates even more readable text, the difference on real-life test cases is more than significant
less frequently used synonyms are now methodically offered to users so Spin Rewriter can further evaluate their quality (in a non-intrusive way)
improved word manipulation – 99.9% of all verbs are now correctly transformed into their past-tense and gerund form, etc.
comparative adjectives are no longer suggested for superlative adjectives, and vice-versa (with some obvious exceptions where this is preferred)
we removed verbs in gerund form (-ing verbs) that were tied to verbs in their base form where required
we fixed a bug that caused our API to generate faulty spintax in some cases
Spin Rewriter API now offers a new setting – users can request articles to be spun only on the first level (no nested spins)
the One-Click Rewrite process offers a new setting that does the same – guarantees that the resulting text is spun on the first level only
your One-Click Rewrite preferences (“Protected Keywords”, “Confidence”, etc.) and similar preferences are now saved automatically
saved projects are correctly represented with their names (even if those names are later changed by users)
we now offer the “Bulk Rewrite” option where you rewrite multiple articles with a single click, and spun articles immediately show up in your Archive
we now offer the “I’m Feeling Lucky” option that rewrites one article with a single click and returns spun text, entirely skipping Step 2 of the process
our affiliate partners can find “embed codes” for all our promotional YouTube videos directly on our website, within the Affiliate Program section
our user interface is now using native browser handles for resizing various input fields (available in Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
we optimized and compressed browser-based code and made Spin Rewriter even more responsive and quicker to load
we researched our data about most common screen resolutions of our users, cleaned up the user interface and made it even faster
much much more …

As you can see, we weren’t kidding with this update … Oh, and we’re only getting started … 😀

We’ll follow up with detailed explanations of some of these updates in the following days, so – stay tuned! 😀

You can find all Spin Rewriter updates by clicking here.

Or you can jump to the website: http://www.SpinRewriter.com

Spin Rewriter has gotten more careful and more meticulous

January 25, 2012 / Aaron

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. 😉

Improved differentiation between similar meanings

January 20, 2012 / Aaron

We’ve redesigned an important part of Spin Rewriter‘s database and – as a result of this – Spin Rewriter is now even better when it comes to figuring out the exact meaning a certain word can have in given context.

We aren’t going to bore you with the details, however the changes we just implemented are going to have a profound effect on the One-Click Rewrite process and the results it produces. Just like the previous update, this one will also be included with Spin Rewriter’s first “Major Update” that’s going to happen in exactly one week, on next Friday. We can’t wait. 😀

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