کسی ابو بکر نامی صاحب نے سٹار ڈکشنری نامی اطلاقیے کے لیے انگریزی اردو لغت تیار کی تھی جو ایک عرصہ سے میرے استعمال میں ہے، سوچا عوام الناس کو بھی اس سے مستفید کیا جائے چنانچہ اس کا ایک ڈِب پیکج تیار کیا ہے جس کے ذریعے سٹار ڈکشنری … Continue reading
Urdu WebPad’s update is finally there after a long wait. I had finished work on this update a few weeks ago and I was about to release it but I experienced some problems during its testing. Therefore I fixed these problems and now it is time to release it. The … Continue reading
I feel great pleasure in announcing the launch of a new website (www.urdulibrary.org) for the Urdu digital library project. Until now, this project was hosted on the Mehfil forum. Now it has reached the point where a discussion forum is no more sufficient to meet its needs. Therefore a complete … Continue reading
Dear friends, AssalamOAlaikum Yesterday I came across two important news regrarding Urdu in OpenOffice which I would like to share here. Nastaleeq Font in OpenOffice According to a post in Yahoo’s Urdu Computing Group, Nafees Nastaleeq as well as Fajer Nastaleeq are properly rendering in a development snapshot of the … Continue reading
I wrote Urdu WebPad earlier this year, which is effectively an open source version of the Urdu Pad from urdulife.com. This is a web-based editor that allows the editing of Urdu text without the need of installing Urdu keyboard and language support on the computer. It works with Internet Explorer … Continue reading
Since all the previous posts and comments we imported from Movable Type had used the Textile plugin there, we had to enable the Textile 2.5 plugin for WordPress. Ideally I would like to move away from Textile since WordPress uses dynamic pages which means that The Textile plugin is applied … Continue reading
I was remiss in my “last post”:http://urdu.zackvision.com/archives/2005/06/001317.html in not thanking “Nabeel”:http://simunaqv.blogspot.com/ and “Asif”:http://www.sovereign-renditions.info/ for their help, both monetary and otherwise. Now that we have setup hosting, let’s start the process of moving and creating content. My ideas are given below. Feel free to disagree or suggest anything else. * *Urdu … Continue reading
Urduweb.org is finally up, though there is almost no content there. We’ll move everything there soon as well as create new content. Continue reading
I released UrduEditor some time ago. Unfortunately it does not work on Windows 98. I did not realize at that time that right-to-left support needs to be installed in order for UrduEditor to work properly and this support is not available for Windows 98. Luckily I got a solution in … Continue reading
Since there is some confusion on how “Urdu Planet”:http://urdu.zackvision.com/urduplanet/ works, here is an attempt at clarification. Urdu Planet is based on the “Planet”:http://www.planetplanet.org/ software. Basically, a script is run every 6 hours (at 12am, 6am, 12pm, 6pm US Eastern Time) which looks at the current Atom or RSS feeds of … Continue reading