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 [...]
Category: Chinese, Linux, Mac, Web Apps, Widgets, Windows | 1 Comment
Google seems to have updated their language tools. Not only do they support bookmarks now, but they also added a whole bunch of scriptlets to make translations from any web page far easier.
You can play around in the language tools section of google to find the gems, or you watch this demo to vicariously see [...]
I updated the UI for the Hex Calculator widget, and it looks much, much better. It used to look like … well … just awful. Horrible in fact. I mean really bad.
Here is what it looks like now:
It actually looks like something I would want on my desktop now. You can download it on the [...]
Category: General, Mac, Widgets | 3 Comments
I’ve updated my regular expression testing widget to version 1.5. The only real change in this version is a UI update.
I’ve been doing some regular expression work the past couple of days, and the look of the widget started to bother me. It was very “programmer art”ish - it works fine, but it just looked [...]
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(Kalator is an ad server that only shows open source ads) A weird phenomena seems to be happening with the Kalator ads. When people figure out that all the ads are for open source software, they tend to hit refresh a few times to see what other ads will show up. Probably because the [...]