Top 1 Tip for a Fun Economic Downturn
Some of my friends who were in the denial phase that the US economy isn’t going so hot are starting to go past the bargaining, guilt, and anger phases and right into the depression one. I thought, perhaps, a post on how tough times can actually be quite fun might pep them up a [...]
Published: July 15th, 2008Category: Mac, Miscellanea, Tinkering
[...] nciku has finally made it to the big (small) screen of YouTube. Rob Rohan over at the Random Technology blog has posted a nice 5 minute video explaining how he uses nciku, specifically the quick nciku feature. The video is below and here is the link to the original post: Online Chinese Reader - nciku.com [...]
Who would have thought that when I got up this morning the first thing I would see was an nciku YouTube video in my RSS reader.
Thanks for all the nice comments. I hope our quick nciku can help you make sense of all that chatter on the Chinese web.
I posted your video on our blog. Good luck with your studies!
Rob,
If you have a minute, head on over to nciku and take the chance to win some prizes.
Hope the Chinese is coming along well.
I have been trying to use nciku.com at home for school but i the encoders for chinese in my web browser aren’t working so i cannot see the characters. I have used nciku.com at school and its great but it doesnt work on my home computer i have firefox and internet explorer…
Hi Rose,
The problem is probably due to the fact that without extra setup Windows XP can’t display Asian characters (unlike Mac and Linux which can out of the box). To set up window xp to show Chinese characters, have you windows XP disk in hand and follow these instructions: http://youtube.com/watch?v=iAbvQqhICA4
Just have to get to the part where you tick the “install east asian languages” part (unless you want to be able to type chinese too).
I hope that helps.