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Words With Friends now on Facebook

I’ve just heard that Words With Friends is now available on Facebook.  I’ve played it on my iPhone before, but I’m now going to check out the new version.  It’s at http://apps.facebook.com/wordswithfriends/ Remember, Scrabble Helper works beautifully with Words With … Continue reading

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Scrabble Strategy ebook!

Hi guys, I’ve got some news I’m really excited about! For the last 4 months I’ve been working with Todd Kreisman – author, stand-up comedian, and most importantly brilliant Scrabble player to create an amazing book on Scrabble Strategy. Todd … Continue reading

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New Word List Pages

I’ve just added a few pages to the site for people wanting to improve their Scrabble, Lexulous or Words With Friends knowledge. These are a set of Scrabble Word Lists that are useful for revising/preparing for a game.  Such things … Continue reading

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Improvement for iPad / iPhone / iPod users

Scrabble Helper user Mark recently suggested an improvement to allow him to use Scrabble Helper on his iPad. The problem is that Apple products ‘auto correct’ whatever you type in (which can have annoying yet hilarious consequences – as seen … Continue reading

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Sorry about the slow site, but improvements are on the way!

Well, it only feels like yesterday when I bought a new web server to cope with all the new Scrabble Helper users. In fact it was 3 months ago, and yet we’re still getting new users every day.  I guess … Continue reading

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Apologies and a new setting

I had to take Scrabble Helper down for maintenance earlier today to do an upgrade to the server.  It was only supposed to be offline for about 5 minutes, but you know the way computers are, and unforeseen problems turned … Continue reading

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We’re on a new webserver

This morning I got my hosting company to move Scrabble Helper to a new webserver. The new server has twice as much memory, so should be able to handle twice as many simultaneous visitors before grinding to a halt 🙂 … Continue reading

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New webserver on the way

We’ve had a lot of new users join Scrabble Helper since the Christmas holidays (welcome everyone!) However this has made the site a little slow during peak periods. To try to fix this I’ve just bought a new webserver from … Continue reading

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Save your preferences

After the recent updates to Scrabble Helper I had some feedback that a few of you preferred the old way of displaying the words. To try to keep everyone happy I’ve added a new ‘Options’ tab (on the right below … Continue reading

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Site Improvements

I recently asked all the members on the mailing list what they thought of the website, and how it could be improved. (For those of you not on the mailing list it’s not too late to tell me what you … Continue reading

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