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Saturday, August 27, 2016

How to Block Wikipedia Banner Ad with Adblock and uBlock

Create a custom filter in either program as:

||wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerControlle

Thursday, August 11, 2016

How to add Spellcheck Plugin to Pidgin

I wanted to use spellcheck with pidgin but couldn't figure out how to install the plugin. I found out how to do it manually.

Versions 2.7.0 and newer use the dictionaries available from the ​openoffice extension download site. You need to download the appropriate language extension file(s) (files are openoffice extensions *.oxt, which are just zip files that contain additional data). Once you have downloaded a dictionary extension file, you can rename it so it has a .zip extension and then extract the *.dicand *.aff files in it to <Pidgin Installation Directory>\spellcheck\share\enchant\myspell\ (create the directories if they don't exist already).
If Pidgin is running, it will need to be restarted for new dictionaries to be recognized.
Versions older than 2.7.0 use Aspell; you can download both the Aspell core and a dictionary from ​the win32 Aspell website.


I used the https://sourceforge.net/projects/aoo-extensions/files/17102/28/dict-en.oxt/download Link for the English dictionary file,
Unzipped the .oxt file and put in C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin\spellcheck\share\enchant\myspell