About gspell |  Licence |  Download |  gspell on Sourceforge
Dependencies |  Installation |  A Note to OS X Users
Motivation |  Contact
About:
gpell (short for 'Google spell') is a command line utility that allows you to ask Google for help when trying to spell a word. The power lies within being able to put the word in question in context and make use of Google's uncanny ability to guess what you are trying to spell. if Google thinks the words in your search phrase are spelled correctly then gspell exits silently and returns 0. However if Google has a better idea, gspell will print the familiar phrase:

Did you mean: <Google's suggestion> ?

NOTE: What this utility lacks in usefulness it surely makes up for in novelty.
Licence:
gspell licensed under the GNU GPL.
Dependencies:
libcurl 7.10
What can I say about curl, other than it ROX, so use it!
Installation:
./configure
make
make install

If that doesn't work make sure you have the latest version of curl installed...

curl-config --version

I used version 7.10 so older versions of curl may or may not work.

NOTE: gspell was written in C and compiled on OS X, as of yet I have not had a chance to test it out on Linux, Solaris or other flavors of BSD. The only snags I foresee are in my #include statements as userland may vary slightly across different versions of *nix. I will attempt to make the code more portable and should post an update shortly.
A Note to OS X Users:
you can get the latest version of curl from fink...

sudo fink install curl

Since fink installs to /sw by default be sure to update your PATH environment variable so that /sw/bin appears before /usr/bin.

If you don't want to do that just use this hack:

sudo mv /usr/bin/curl /usr/bin/curl_old
sudo mv /usr/bin/curl-config /usr/bin/curl-config_old
sudo ln -s /sw/bin/curl /usr/bin/curl
sudo ln -s /sw/bin/curl-config /usr/bin/cur-config
Motivation:
My motivation for writing gspell was basically threefold:
  1. Learn more about the GNU build system
  2. Fascination for Google's ability to guess what I am trying to type
  3. I can't spell to save my life.
Contact:
If you have any questions or would like to provide feedback, I can be reached at:

Courtney Ludwin <courtneyludwin@yahoo.com>

In the future be on the lookout AuctionHunter ( an eBay sniper soon to be released ) and a tutorial on parsing html using T.A.J.F..
Valid XHTML 1.0!