Posts from ‘May, 2006’

Language translation via Babelfish? That is soooooo Web 1.0.
Check out Polly Glotta, the text to speech language translator:

You type a phrase in the top form, select a language translation pair (English to Dutch, French to Italian, etc). Polly not only translate the text of the phrase, she also speaks it out loud! She’s quite a [...]

Thanks Canada!

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That’s right, he’s back.
Not his back!
Stephen Downes is back in the blog saddle. Hold on for a wild ride.

Okay, I know there are a lot of blogs. And it seems we are still at an inflection point, so soon there are going to be A LOT OF BLOGS.
The long tail of blog is growing longer by the second. Yee-hah! Ride the tail!
It just struck me as I was counting down with [...]

Does he ever get weary of it?
It’s not a criticism (really! I mean it, sincerely). I admire someone who can take a show on the road like that. I got worn out after one repeat. Wow.

I’m again at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for another jaunt out of town. I recalled reading somewhere online a few weeks ago that the airport was offering free wireless, not the pay through your nose service that was there before. Sure enough, flipping open the laptop, there it is:

This is a welcome change from a [...]

Rightfully so, people have been requesting the Feed2JS be able to display content referenced in RSS 2.0 or podcast feeds. Until now, these enclusore tags have been ignored because it is not supported in the underlying MagpieRSS library code.
It turns out there is a fairly simple patch / adjustment to the Magpie code that seems [...]

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iAudio and Shuffleavailable on my flickr

My new iAudio U3 is so tiny and light you’d think it might float away.. but it can carry 1 Gb of stuff. Here is relaxes next to my Shuffle

My iAudio U3 MP3 player/recorder prompty arrived and I am just starting to play with it.
I got this model [...]

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Mouse, No Tailavailable on my flickr

Ha, I am eating my own crow. After baseless ridicule of 3 button mice, I am now loving my Kensington mini Bluetooth critter, on both sides of the operating systems in my MacBookPro. Right clicking saves key-click combos for the Mac, and on Windows on the Intel Mac, [...]

I am already 3 hours deep of my weekend time trying to resurrect Windoze XP (Xtra Polluted) from its now threatened partition on my MacBookPro.
This began with login errors like
“winlogin.exe- unable to locate component– failed to start because ole32.dll was not found”
Well that is utterly useful information and gives me a clear sense of [...]