This could be another example of bad usability.

It’s been in the news since one month, but only recently I got that message when using Google:

To spark again my interest on 3-d programming, I decided to buy some games. Since I know a bit about the Quake engine, I wanted then to try something not based on it. And it doesn’t need to be new. I am not a gamer, I just enjoy the technologies behind a game.

If you learn enough German but then need to write or speak in English, you may often be tempted to use the following words (at least, in my case):

For those who don’t know German, maybe you can still guess what Ellen meant in her last blog entry. Yes, it’s simply cartoon. I reckon it’s just a literal translation from the German word der Zeichentrickfilm (or der Trickfilm). Interesting, isn’t it?

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

I was late to realize that the legendary Turbo products will be back in 13 days. So far Turbo Delphi, Turbo C++, Turbo Delphi .NET and Turbo C# will be offered, with the EXP edition that can be downloaded and used for free. Although this is surely interesting, especially for the hobbyists, I reckon ...

August 17th is Indonesia’s independence day.

Recently I got WordPerfect 7 suite from ebay (which apparently can only be installed in Windows 95, but I don’t really bother to install it) which comes with over 5000 clip-arts in WordPerfect Graphics (WPG) format. The total size is over 200 MB. This is a ideal test for libwpg and its tools (wpg2sv...

Want to try another type of desktop calculator? Just klik://speedcrunch.

In the old times, when a couple of KB can still be quite expensive, you have to play some tricks even with the OS services.

Just one verse of Juste Avant Toi and you can’t mistake it. I wouldn’t be surprised if this latest single from Anggun will be a hit. The video is also good, apparently shot in Indonesia.

The next KDE 4 is expected to be available also for Windows. But even now we can see already a trace of KDE technologies on this platform: Swift the web browser. It’s based on Webkit, which is based on KDE’s very own KHTML and KJS.

Winter is about seemingly complex conflicts around a family drama. With the background of Germany, in particular Berlin, in the first 50 years of the last century, the two central characters Paul and Peter Winter took a different route for their lives and yet they must once a while cross their paths...

…is having fun with the (mime magic?) configuration.

Ted Gould implements libwpg-based WPG extension for Inkscape. So it’s likely that the next 0.45 release can open WPG files directly. Very cool.

Teacher: Susie, make a sentence starting with the letter I.

As I wrote before, finally I manage to correctly handle the stroke and fill in wpg2odg. The result can be witnessed in the following screenshot:

This pool poll at kde-look is very hilarious! As I write this, the result (from the most voted one) is like this:

Jambi is the next Qt technology for integrating Qt and Java. When I saw the name for the first time, I couldn’t stop wondering. Why is it Jambi? For those who do not know yet, it’s also the name of a province in Indonesia, but that province is in Sumatra, not Java.

I hope I don’t bore the readers with another Whiskey-Papa-Golf goodies.

After few failed attempts, finally I managed to implement full support of the so called compound polygon for libwpg (see also the previous progress). This is WordPerfect Graphics’ term for “grouped objects”. Without proper compound polygon support, often some objects are shifted, i.e. not placed in ...

the good old fanless 486 …… I am a fan of it! you’re really old fashion ! but I also really love that chap, always works like charm and beyond it was a play on words 😉

Help! I can’t stop eating this chocolate…

In the recent days (see also the last progress), I have implemented support for two important things for libwpg: object transformation and gradient.

Unlike Firefox which needs an extension (as mentioned by ThomasZ just now), KDE’s Konqueror users can happily and easily view OpenDocument files thanks to the integration between KOffice and the rest of KDE. A simple click on the ODF file is all that is needed.

Lately I was asked about my favorite Internet radio. Well, without doubt it’s definitely Frequence3. I’m using it already for years and it really pleases me!

Microsoft trying to improve support for WordPerfect graphics? (just like what I’m doing now for libwpg):

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Thanks, Google!