Tag: user interface

(Even) faster JavaScript

We’re optimizing the JavaScript code that makes Spin Rewriter come to life inside your browser …

We’ve already made it 25-30% faster, but we’re not stopping there – I’m pretty certain that we’ll be rolling out a 40% overall faster version of Spin Rewriter in the next 4-5 business days.

Free of charge, of course. πŸ˜‰

We made life easier for our Affiliate Partners

You can now easily request your finalized affiliate earnings to be transferred to your PayPal account with a couple of clicks. πŸ˜€

To request the payment, go to your Control Panel and click the Affiliate Program button on the right. Immediately below the graph with your earnings you’ll find a link saying “Request Your Finalized Affiliate Earnings Β»” on the right hand side of the page.

Click this link, fill out the payee data (you only have to do this once), and you’re pretty much ready to be paid. πŸ˜‰

Oh, and thanks for promoting our services! πŸ˜€

Spin Rewriter is more robust now

As part of our on-going efforts to make Spin Rewriter is robust as possible, we have introduced a couple of changes to the underlying algorithms and to the user interface. Our server load should be more consistent with less blocking when a random spike in traffic occurs, and users will give much more detailed reports about various issues that arise every now and then, along with suggestions aboutΒ  overcoming these issues.

Oh, and don’t get us wrong – Spin Rewriter is still working perfectly fine 99% of the time. πŸ˜‰ We’re just committed to delivering the best possible product! πŸ˜€

Spin Rewriter gets a faster user interface

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! πŸ˜€

One-Click Rewrite preferences are now saved automatically

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. πŸ˜€

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.

Improved Spin Distribute validation

We just improved the article validation process over at Spin Distribute – our in-house article distribution system.

We know how annoying it is to apply a bunch of the {first option|second option} spinning syntax to your articles, and get the “faulty syntax” error that’s caused by a missing “{” or “}” character. In this case it’s usually incredibly difficult to locate the error and fix your spinning syntax.

With this in mind we decided to help you out. πŸ˜‰ Say you’re working with this text: “However, before {going | rushing} to the nearest hardware store and buying a sprayer …”

You just so happen to forget the closing “}” character, so you’re left with “However, before {going | rushing to the nearest hardware store and buying a sprayer …”

From now on, Spin Distribute’s validation system will provide additional information that should help you resolve your problem really quickly:

“There seems to be something wrong with the number of brackets.

There’s probably a ] character missing shortly after:
Β»…However, before [going | rushing to the nearest hardware st…Β«

Please, check your spinning syntax once again.”

This should make your day-to-day spinning even easier! πŸ˜€

 

Spin Distribute user interface updated

We just rolled out a number of updates that relate to the user interface of our article distribution system, named Spin Distribute.

The most important update is probably an improved and much more reliable feature that will constantly keep on calculating the longest possible variation of your spun “About the Author” texts. It will also instantly report when a single one of the unique variations of your text exceeds the maximum allowed number of letters. This way you’re absolutely safe from creating author texts that are too long and might get rejected by article directories in our distribution network.

Other updates were designed to make your work with Spin Distribute even easier and faster – we hope you like it! πŸ˜‰

One-Click Rewrite improved

We introduced a couple of new changes to the part of the Spin Rewriter web app that handles the One-Click Rewrite process …

Now you don’t simply get an estimate of the time the One-Click Rewrite process is going to take, you also get an accurate timer that counts down the seconds so you have a better feeling of how far along you actually are at any given moment.

We also made sure that if you cancel the One-Click Rewrite process while it’s still being performed on your article, you’re able to start a new one right away and your article stays perfectly formatted all this time. And we did our best to make the option to prevent selected keywords and key phrases from getting spun even more prominent and easier to notice.

That’s not all we’re introducing with this most recent update though … you know us. πŸ˜‰ We also made sure that abbreviations such as ‘re (are) and ‘ve (have) now always stick to the word that precedes them. This wasn’tΒ  always the case and it caused some confusion in the past. When you replace the ‘re with something like ‘are actually’, a new space is added in front of the new synonym so your text stays perfect. Spin Rewriter now also recognized the verb ‘have’ both when auxiliary (e.g. “I have done something.”) and when contracted (“I’ve no idea.”).

Oh, and before I forget – December is here, the most magical month of the year! Have fun! πŸ˜€

Name your projects & use HTML links!

Yup, that’s right.

From now on all Spin Rewriter usersΒ  can:

  • pick custom names for their projects (instead of using only automatically generated project titles, based on the original text, to tell their projects apart)
  • place HTML links in their original text and have those links preserved throughout the whole spinning process
  • export thousands of spun articles with HTML links
  • access even better reports of their affiliate earnings inside their Spin Rewriter Affiliate Program control panel

We’ll keep on doing our very best to make sure you love our software! πŸ˜€

Learning process further improved, and some other goodies

Some of our users have recently contacted us and told us they felt like the synonyms weren’t always sorted from the most suitable ones to the least suitable ones, and that when using One Click Rewrite, some words were replaced with too many synonyms (20+) and some words weren’t replaced with any synonyms (even though good ones existed).

We’re in fact still in the middle of our super-thorough weekly check of the learning process and while they are some other tweaks to be done, we have already improved 2 important aspects of the learning process. It now puts much more weight on fact whether or not our users actually took their time to check out various synonyms and select / deselect the ones they found good or not good enough.

We’ve also introduced 2 user interface updates:

  • In the first step you can now disable the paragraph & sentence level spinning. When you selected a piece of text, the paragraph & sentence level spinning interface box always used to pop up, so you couldn’t really select a piece of text and copy it some place else. Now you can temporarily disable the spinning interface box, which means you can select pieces of your text without interruptions.
  • You can now add (type in) completely new synonyms in the Fast Mode and still keep on using the keyboard navigation to quickly jump to the next / previous word.