A simple step-by-step guide

As you may know—all too well—Apple’s Mac OS X doesn’t offer native support for Romanian spell checking. Quite an embarrassment.

However, it is possible to install a Romanian spell-check dictionary (with diacritics and all)—in three fairly easy steps—available to all applications using system spell-checking services, like Mail, Pages, Keynote, Safari, iChat etc.¹

Here is how to add system-wide Romanian spell-check dictionary to Mac OS X—a simple step-by-step guide.

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Bucharest. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Monte Carlo. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Street, Firenze. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

We put a lord next to the lord so you can pray while you pray.

The Dome at night, Firenze. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Sorry for the botched archives and comments—I am upgrading. Not having enough time for fixing broken things means it's going to take a few days.

Thank you.

Update 1: Basic functionalities restored. Comments working.

Update 2: A few glitches remain to be corrected but they are not very serious. Also, www is now completely deprecated. Almost all Facebook Likes in the main blog are mysteriously lost. God's will.

Toscana, Italy. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Duomo, Siena, Italy. Crop. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Shanghai Pudong as seen from The Bund. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge. Location.

Shanghai's Bund as seen from the top of the Hyatt. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Shanghai's Pudong as seen from the top of the Hyatt. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

With a population of 20 million — as large as Romania's — Shanghai is the most populous city in the world and the economic capital of the world's second (and fastest-growing) major economy.

Moscow lost the cold war — dead. But I be damned if Shanghai doesn't look exactly like in an alternate universe where the Chinese won it.