Things the world needs, #4938

[jducoeur]

The heck with being able to share bookmarks between machines -- I want to be able to share my bloody *dictionary*. I confess, this business of having to add "Pennsic" to the dictionary in every program on every computer I use gets old after a while. (Yes, yes -- I could just ignore the red underlines. But the pedant in me sees that blood-red mark with real pain.)

Really, it would be pretty easy to write an online system that lets you define your personal dictionary extensions, and that maybe even allows you to share them with friends. The only tricky part is getting programs to make use of it. Might make a good Firefox extension to start with, though...

Comments

Re: Yet another reason to use a Mac...

[laurion]

FolderShare at least does a pretty decent job with this. If one file is changed and the other not, it replicated the changed one. If both have changed, it appends the machine identifier. You have two copies, but at least it is obvious which is which, and you don't lose any modifications. It doesn't ask you to resolve anything, it leaves it up to you to do that whenever you get around to it.