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No Bahasa Indonesia dictionary for the new OpenOffice.org 3.0

27/10/2008 at 11:36 · Filed under software ·Tagged ,

Several days ago a colleague popped out of Google Talk window.

“The new OpenOffice.org doesn’t have Indonesian language dictionary, does it?”
“It doesn’t?” I answered, rather smugly. I have installed a copy of OpenOffice.org 3.0 at the office, but hadn’t touched it very much yet. But I was sure the free office suite still had it. Indonesian dictionary was one of the rare things that more popular and much pirated Microsoft Office lacks, but OpenOffice.org has.
“I am at home. I have not access to a machine with the new OpenOffice.org right now. Let me see it tomorrow,” I said.

To my dismay, my colleague was right. The old New Dictionary Wizard is gone. After some fiddling I gave up, the turned to Google to find some information. I found the OpenOffice.org wiki, and began to browse.

It turned out that dictionaries as we know it before in 2.x versions are now integrated into extensions mechanism in the new 3.0 series. Lots of extensions available at OpenOffice.org extensions page, some of them are dictionaries. But there isn’t Indonesian dictionary extension. Bummer.

It seems we have to wait some brave souls to repackage the old Indonesian dictionary into the new extension format. Meanwhile, if you need OpenOffice.org spellchecking capability for Bahasa Indonesia badly, you should stick to the 2.4 version.

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Using wget

29/04/2008 at 10:38 · Filed under software

I have heard about wget for a long time, but never find the opportunity to use it myself. I count copy-and-paste instructions from the web out from this, of course. I am lazy to learn to use the command line options that suits my needs.

Now finally I do it. Because I am too lazy to point and click a lot of web pages. I’d rather spend some time learning, and then let wget do its job. I also have some other things to do.

Perhaps I will write a simple script as a wrapper for it. Then I will finally drag my arse off to learn bash scripting as well.

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Windows Live Writer — A short review

10/01/2008 at 14:27 · Filed under software

 

This blog post is written using Windows Live Writer. It is a great software.

I am using Linux for daily use, but at work we use Windows (mainly XP). So I am still in touch with the Windows world. I am quite contented with my Fedora laptop, which does all I want. But as I have written before I am not pleased with the blogging clients.

I do not pay much attention to blogging clients before. But I plan to blog more intensively in the future I am surveying the blogging tools available. ScribeFire is great and all, but I wish it was a standalone app.

Enter Windows Live Writer. It is part of Windows Live Suite. In general I dislike the suite. Windows Live Messenger is useless to me, because most of my friends are in jabber (almost all in Google Talk) or Yahoo networks. I hate the Photo application as well. But Windows Live Suite is another matter. It supports various blogging sites (e.g. Sharepoint, Windows Live Spaces,  WordPress, Blogger). It is able to autodetect a site’s blogging API. The user just need to type username and password.

Windows Live Writer is also able to manage the site well. In wordpress sites, you can add new categories (a capability absent in Drivel).

There is another feature, which is not essential but nice. Right now I set it to work with a WordPress blog and a Blogger blog. I am using serif fonts for body text in the Blogger blog, and sans-serif fonts for WordPress. While I am writing this post I try to switch the active blog back and forth–and the fonts change according to the style I applied to each blog.

I haven’t yet reach a final verdict,  but so far I am enjoying Windows Live Writer.

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