Another app from Iran :D (MDic Dictionary)

Hi folks,

I’m here today to announce a new version of another free software / Qt application that I was working on it since 2 years ago! And obviously, It’s our first free software and Qt try!

It was a hobby for my cousin (Majid Ramezanpour) and I to learn Qt!

A simple but useful dictionary tool, we call it MDic Dictionary since begin! M stands for Multilingual, (or maybe our first names :D)
And it was one of our first needs after migrating to GNU/Linux world here in Iran, because most of documents are available in English, and always we need a dictionary tool on system :D

Today after more than 1 year elapsed since previous release, we have prepared a new version of it, with some improvements and some useful features (mostly it’s users needs and requests)

It’s current main features:

• Support for a special dictionary database files (a sqlite db, and there is some tools for converting other dictionary files into it)
• Supporting text translation Using Google translate service.
• Highly customizable!
• 4 ways to show lookup results: 1. It’ main window 2. System tray message 3. KNotify 4. LibNotify
• Support for Festival and espeak text to speech engines without dependency!
• Embedded spell checker, using GNU Aspell!
• …

Screen shot:

check here for more!

Download:

source code
Download page (For other packages)

You need some dictionaries to use it, or just use google translate inside it! Take a look at help dialog for how to use it!

Call for a brainstorm for the name of KDE Blogging Client

Hello again,

After my previous post about Bilbo, We have discussed importing Bilbo, as a blogging client, into KDE PIM, and they accepted to replace KBlogger with it.

And then, with help of Christian Weilbach, the KBlog project maintainer, We changed Bilbo and KBlog to work better with each other…

But before we proceed we have a little problem with the name that was not considered from the beginning. The name seems to be OWNED by an organization (Tolkien Enterprises).

So, We are thinking about it, And after all, we need your help to select a good, simple, short, funny and hacky name for KDE Blogging Client.

What you can do is to send your comments on this page, and leave whatever name you think is good for it.
And more info if the name has a meaning (that we may not know in English) or in other languages.

Don’t forget that this is a brain storm so anything that comes to your mind is appreciated. So don’t judge and donate us your precious ideas.

Thanks for your consideration.

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Result of Brainstorm:

At first, Thanks for your consideration, and the time you spend here, to help us to select a good name for KDE Blogging Client. I didn’t expect this huge number of ideas, Thanks community

At last, We choose “Blogilo” for it, I hope you like it too…

Our Reasons:

It has a good meaning: Arnomane says that It means “Blog Tool” in Esperanto,
It’s short,
It’s global and world wide,
And It’s like Blog+Bilbo.
The worse thing can be lack of K in it. :D

Others are fine too, but hey, we need just one name :D

Bilbo Blogger, A gift for your free desktop blogging experience

Yesterday, We (The Bilbo Blogger developers) have announced that it reached its version 1.0 milestone.

What is Bilbo Blogger?

It’s a feature reached desktop blogging client, built up on KDE KBlog library, So supports all of Blogger 1.0, MetaWeblog, MovableType, WordPress and Google GData (used on blogspot blogs) APIs.

As a client, It has a well designed WYSIWYG editor, for easy editing, an HTML editor and Supports previewing blog entry with blog style before release…
Supports storing posts offline for later use,
Supports uploading files via FTP and MetaWeblog (MovableType and WordPress) API media uploading.

And some other features you can see on its homepage.

And you can see some

What’s new on this release?

We have released a beta preview of what will be the Bilbo 1.0 on 28-June, and we were working on it to fix known bugs, that you can see some of them on its release notes.

I have take some times on it to make it compatible and usable on Windows, and wrote some articles about it on its wiki.

About its Naming

As many of you should know, the name Bilbo is the name of “Bilbo Baggins” the famous hobbit in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings novels, and we select this because of our interest to him and Tolkien’s stories :D (But I didn’t know about copyright contexts and if we can do this or not)

And release codenames are selected from there…

About Bilbo and KBlogger?

I was in touch with KBlog maintainer, Christian Weilbach, (who’s the kblogger maintainer too) to merge back my fixes for KBlog to it. and we talked about Bilbo as a replacement for KBlogger in KDE. Because currently we have a fork of KBlog (called BilboKBlog) in Bilbo source code and Bilbo uses it.

Choqok Icon design

As you probably remember, Choqok Icon was blue since the first release, But when we decided to release 0.6.6 with “Let’s Be Green” codename , An idea come to my mind that how about a green icon!? So, With my friend, Roozbeh, contribution We have released 0.6.6 with a Green icon. To show our support for Iranian green movement…

After that release, Some of users told me that they like the new icon, and some like the old one.

So, We decided to have a poll about the Icon color, There are 2 options, the Green Icon and the Blue Icon:

Let’s Begin… (You may see some improvements on Icon since before :D)

The Voting will be open for just one week(Until 11-Sep). So, Please spread the word to have more Choqok users voted for icon…

Hello Planet KDE

Hi there,

Obviously, This is my first post on my first English blog, and if everything goes well, You should see it on KDE Planet.

So, A brief intro could be helpful…

My name is Mehrdad Momeny, I’m an Iranian free software enthusiast and developer, And I’m 24 years old. And a KDE user since about April 2006.

I came into kde development world when i found KBlog library useful to use with my second free software project that is Bilbo Blogger a client for blogging. (About one year ago)

After that, About 8 months ago, I started developing a Twitter/Microblogging client for myself, but found it useful for others, So Choqok came into KDE :)

And recently i felt that I need a way to talk more about my works on Choqok and Bilbo to their users, so decided to set up a blog.

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P.S. My English is not so good, and you may see some mistakes here :D