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Vote for Mel Chua and Help Plover Win $1,000!
Mel Chua has been an ally of Plover since pretty much the very beginning. She wrote a fantastic article on Plover for opensource.com, helped me with steno pedagogical theory, came up with the idea of...
View ArticleUsing Plover for Python
I gave a dry run of my PyCon presentation at the New York Python Meetup last night, and I think it went quite well! I think I've finalized my slide deck. Longtime followers will notice that I reused a...
View ArticleStatus of Current Tasks Page is Back
In preparation for my talk tomorrow, I've resurrected the Status of Current Tasks page on the Plover Wiki, which was pulled when the wiki went down a few months ago and which had fallen disgracefully...
View ArticlePyCon Video
Here's the captioned video of my PyCon talk. Here's the page with the slides and the uncaptioned YouTube version of the video. Hopefully when I give the caption file to the people in charge of the...
View ArticlePlover Lookup!
An extremely useful new tool has arrived on the Plover scene: Plover Lookup! It's a new tool by longtime Plover friend Zerk, brought about by this Aviary thread discussing how to decide which of the...
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StenoTray, Treal, and Tail
Little by little, Plover is transforming from a one-man band (initiated by Josh, taken over by Hesky) into a truly collaborative project. We've got new coders writing utilities and features for it all...
View ArticlePlover Documentation Project
Recently I was contacted by a technical writer who was interested in learning steno. He wanted to use it not only to be more productive and ergonomic in his day job, but for his personal creative...
View ArticleEasy Display of Raw Steno Notes
A few people have asked how to get raw steno notes to display while using Plover, and while I proposed a possible solution in a recent post, there's now an even easier one. Bas Wilbers on the Plover...
View ArticlePlover Now Supports RTF Dictionaries
Miguel recorded this video, writing along to "Tracks of My Tears" on his Sidewinder, six months after teaching himself steno with Plover. Amazing! Go congratulate him at the Aviary!The magnificent...
View ArticlePlover 2.3.1 Released!
From Hesky, Plover's lead developer:"Hi Everyone, There is a new version of Plover available: v2.3.1.This is a minor update that includes the following features:- Changing settings no longer requires...
View ArticlePlover 2.4.0 released with On-The-Fly Dictionary Update!
Out of nowhere, our incomparable lead dev Hesky has delivered a knockout one-two punch. Version 2.3.1 was released only yesterday, but today he unexpectedly released an absolute whopper of an update:...
View ArticlePlover 2.4.1 Released!
Yet another rapid-fire Plover release, from our staggeringly prolific lead dev Hesky! This guy, I tell you. Amazing. His notes below."Hi Everyone, There is a new version of Plover available: v2.4.1...
View ArticlePlover 2.5.1 released!
Hesky continues to set the world on fire, with yet another pivotal release of Plover! These notes are for the 2.5.0 release, because the 2.5.1 release is just a bugfix.New Features:- Suffix folding:...
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Stenotutor
The amazing Emanuele Caruso from the Plover Google Group has just released a new version of StenoTutor, his amazing cross-platform steno drilling software. It's a perfect introduction to steno for...
View ArticlePlover 2.5.2 Released
From Hesky:"This is a bug fix release and contains the following changes: - Fix handling of prefixes in rtf dictionaries- improve port scanning in linux- NKRO input in linux now works regardless of...
View ArticleTons of New Stuff!
So much stuff is going on in the Plover universe! I've got a really huge announcement that I'll hopefully be able to spill tonight or tomorrow, but in the mean time, there's been...A new iteration of...
View ArticleVersion 2.5.6 Released
Another bugfix release of Plover, hot off the press of the ever-amazing Hesky.* Speeds up text output. If you've noticed that recent versions of Plover have been releasing the text more slowly than...
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Introducing the Stenosaurus!
At long last, the exciting announcement!Josh Lifton, Plover's first programmer way back when we started this project together in 2010, has begun the process to manufacture a new kind of steno machine....
View ArticleIntroducing QwertySteno
When I started The Plover Project with a dream of bringing steno to the masses, I knew it would require three elements in order to work: * Free software* Low-cost hardware* Free, fun, and painless...
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Hands On with the Stenosaurus!
Josh flew in from Oregon today, and he brought the physical prototype of the Stenosaurus with him! One of the most common questions when we announced the Stenosaurus a few weeks ago was "Is this a...
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