Been doing this since I switched to Chrome a few years ago.

Or its instead of it is when needed; and jumping
"off of" rather than jumping from.

And go to the poles and see that there is plenty of ICE and Polar Bears!

Google Maps is an absolutely amazing site. Besides finding addresses, the Street View can show you what you’re actually looking for. There's anaglyph (red/cyan) 3D available on some street views.
Somewhat more for fun than direct information: type in an address with some interesting terrain, say Empire State Building, and click the little square Earth button that might appear toward the lower left of your screen. Okay, a satellite view. Nice enough.
BUT!
Hold down your shift key while you click and drag your mouse to tilt and/or rotate the view. You might not have known that there’s 3D content with sides and parallax in them thar hills. Or at least in many interesting places. If your mouse has a wheel, you can also scroll in and out and do all sorts of amazing things. Give it some time to load all the sides of the buildings.
Try it typing Ahwanee Hotel, surrounded by the mountains of the Yosemite Valley. Give it time to load the rock walls for Half Dome or El Capitan.
Or Miami. Zoom in S.E. of the airport on Downtown at the corner by the water, tilt, and give it time to load the buildings. And the cruise ships at the Terminal Island.
Or Dead Horse Point. You can go over the cliff edges like Thelma and Louise did there, but it’s safe in the virtual Google world.
If you want more control of where you can go and view, with many local pictures available, do all this in Google Earth instead of Google Maps. You can also go past shorelines and under the ocean surface. Monterey Bay has an unusually deep chasm where you wouldn't expect it, going from the Aquarium to Santa Cruz on the water surface.

Now that's a good tip...thank you, I use word also, although, I liked the older word programs. I have Word Perfect now and haven't really worked with it that much. It did a lousy job displaying my work and last book from the older programs.

Here's a tip for when you run into a TLA (Three Letter Acronym) you don't know.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

I do most of my authoring in Microsoft Word, where I have set up a huge collection of AutoCorrect abbreviations, so I can type little fragments of words, and it automatically puts in the real words instead.
Fe, ts is wt I tp, aa it cgg to tt. Which becomes, while I type it: For example, this is what I type, and it changes to that.
It’s a tradeoff of lots of typing at the expense of my memory capabilities (and keeping a good cheat sheet of my abbreviations, just in case.)
Alternatively, you might want to try a text-to-speech application such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which is what I’m using to type this paragraph. With a good microphone, its recognition level is close to that of a human being, and it applies context rules that can avoid many homophone problems. It may choose the wrong word, but it will never misspell what it transcribes.

The other problem I have noticed is we're thinking in our minds and not paying attention to what our brain is doing.
I have also noticed my typing has gotten worse since I started blogging. I very well may have to drop out while typing the next book. Right now it is not a problem because I am hand writing so I capture my emotional intent via word choices.

It's important to proofread you work. (Of coarse you should be your. [And coarse should be course.])

Here's one of the samples I had written of homophone madness:
Whether or not you’re tied in a knot over your writing, or in a daze since days of yore when the fowl fretted over foul weather, though the spelling is great, homophone errors grate! There are many who don’t notice they’re choosing their words incorrectly, thus here we hear in a count to two, too many wrong forms. We’re tired of cases where the wrong word doesn’t wear well. So, sow your words with care to sew your thoughts together, and by Yule, you’ll halve your errors and have won; and one can’t dun you when your writing is done.

Thanks

Even if you do a secure search don't you eventually go to a site? and then get tracked?

seems to me HBD that we're screwed no matter what we do...

Thanks FFA!

Review: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/04/06/viva...
The comments are also interesting.

Great tip...thanks

The same concept applies when looking for a street address you are not certain about the spelling of, just type the house number and first couple of letters...hello Google Maps!

I do That, a lot...

Or "your" instead of "you're".

I just used the URL search technique twice for a reply in "let me live it as a blond" post.
Cool!

Homophone home? laughing...it's tough typing while arranging your thoughts then trying to edit yourself. You read it, over and over, but your reading it correctly but not as you may have typed it. Catching those: the, instead of they or there instead of their is tough.
I seem to catch most after "Reply" has been clicked...

Well, zip my bippy! While reading the article I typed "magic mountain" into the url and went straight there.
Duh, me old dino not know me could do dat.
Why Magic Mountain? Never even been there. Just popped into my rusty old dino head.
So did "zip my bippy" come to think of it.

I am very happy to see this post. One of the things that really upsets me is to read a post that makes absolutely no sense the way it is written. Usually I just give up - why should I waste my time trying to make sense of someone's writing, if they don't care enough to proof-read it before posting?

A spell checker ( or your suggestion ) would certainly be an improvement, but it won't catch a mistaken homophone, like "there", when the writer really means "their" or "they're".

What's sad about this is that most of the posters supposedly have at least a grade-school educaton. How did they ever pass English???

How does Vivaldi compare for security?