Only a few days after Microsoft announces a widget to bring machine translation into your Web site’s home page, Google takes a step towards integrating machine translation into its home page. According to the unofficial Google blog, Google has inserted…
I’m happy to see Microsoft Research launch this new Web site widget. I’ll have to test it out on my site when I get the time — and would love to hear from others who have tried it. A demo…
It was just over a year ago that Facebook started localizing itself for the world. As I noted then, the company utilized crowdsourcing to spur its translation efforts. And though volunteers aren’t the only people translating content, a year later,…
It doesn’t have backlighting. It doesn’t natively support PDFs. And it’s not cheap. And yet I still ended up getting the Kindle. It’s thinner than I expected and I really get a kick of how it never is “off” in…
I’m not very patient with games. Which is probably why I’m not very good. My brother has concocted a tile puzzle game for the iPhone, shown below, that I still haven’t figured out — even at the easiest setting. Maybe…
Google Translate now handles PDF files — says the unofficial Google blog. I haven’t tried it yet. It looks like you have to post PDF files and then link to them to trigger the translation engine — not exactly what…
I love this visual, via ICANN, a diagram of the world’s top-level domains (TLDs) — all 280 of them. The overwhelming majority of TLDs are country codes, most of which are included in the poster I published about a year…