Category: Chinese, Flash, Web Apps, Widgets | 3 Comments
nciku.com (n词酷.com) has a new tool that lets you highlight Chinese or English text on any web page and either define the text or have the text read to you.
It’s a neat tool. This is a movie of how it works:
Online Chinese Translator
(After re-watching the movie, my tones are kind of bad on [...]
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But with other uses too…
Ustream.tv is an interesting service. Using Flash it lets you broadcast (stream) live from your DV camera or web cam. So, you can have your own live “TV show”.
One of the bonuses of setting up your own channel is you get your own IRC room with an embed-able Flash client. Very [...]
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My Chinese teacher’s semester is coming up, and a request he often gets in class is to have a way for people to practice correctly. It’s difficult to know if you are pronouncing something correctly, and if you practice the wrong way too much it tends to be hard to undo.
Depending on how you go [...]
Category: Chinese, Flash, Web Apps | 6 Comments
One hard part about learning Chinese is looking up new characters in a dictionary.
If you find the character online, it’s not that hard. You just copy and paste it into a dictionary like dict.cn, and you have your answer.
If you come across a new character in printed form, however, it’s not quite as easy. [...]
Category: Flash, Mac, Tinkering, iPhone | 4 Comments
A quick tutorial on how to download flash videos and convert them into other formats using Safari and VLC. You can use the borrowed videos for mash ups, offline viewing, or playing on your ipod or iphone.
Borrowing YouTube Videos