Every now & again a tool turns up which could potentially expand horizons. Mloovi, in my opinion, is one of them. Mloovi uses google translate RSS feeds, so potentially any blog, into one of 24 different languages.
For those of you who are immediately put off by:
a) The thought of how long is might take. Fret not, it takes seconds. b) The thought of how awful the translation may be. Believe it or not, google translate works very very well. No, it’s not perfect - but it works a charm & I have had three hour long detailed debates & conversations using google translate & gtalk.
Give it a try at Mloovi.com/ & before you know it, your blog is published in over 24 languages!
Oh, if you fancy reading The Digital Foray in Spanish, Arabic or maybe French - just click to subscribe :] .
The Art of Manliness blog has compiled a wonderful list of the 35 Greatest Speeches in History. If you’re a leadership or public speaking buff - definitely worth checking out.
My personal favorite being Winston Churchill’s “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” - but i’m probably biased being half British. I’m also half Iraqi, but doubt Saddam was considered for this particular post. :]
I discovered a new tool today via friendfeed which you need to give a quick try. It’s called Wordle & it essentially grabs a bunch of words from either some text you to put into, or from your Delicious tags or from any rss feed or webpage - and creates a beautiful wordcloud not unlike the one you see below (which is for this blog by the way). You can see plenty more in the Wordle gallery.
You can customize it with a variety of different colours, you can change the word arrangement and they even give you a variety of fonts to choose from too.
Give it a try at wordle.net - heck, I even used it for my personal website’s homepage!
As a new blogger, big productivity fan and equally big fan of the the lifestreaming/feed aggregating/social community that is FriendFeed. I decided, after some inspiration from James at Organise IT , to create a list of all the Productivity Guru’s who have taken it upon themselves to use the service too!
If i’ve missed anyone shame on me…please add yourself via comments and I’ll add you to the main list over the next week or so. However, if you’re not on friendfeed already, then shame on you…Sign up!
A few days ago I purchased a 30″ Apple Cinema Display…just in case you’re not already jealous by the sound of it - here’s a pic of an understandably happy Mr Jobs.
Don’t you worry though, i’m not really here to gloat - i’m here to tell you that if you want to improve your online productivity - get a big screen, now. Frankly, the only alternative to getting 1 big screen is to get two or three. When I say big, I mean 23″+ .
Myself, if I could I would be purchasing another 2 possibly even 3 of the above - right now, obviously I’ll enjoy the elegance & crispness of 1. Why would I want four? Well frankly, the more the more productive I get. I’m not sure about you - but I find switching windows, spaces or profiles a real distraction and if I can - i’d much rather have everything either immediately visible or one click away. To give you an example of what you could feasibly …Click Here to Read The Full Post»
WriteRoom is a text-editor like product by Hogbay Software designed to make sure you focus on writing. If you haven’t tried it, it’s definitely worth a shot - below is a short, albeit, half serious review of it.
Just to warn you, you may need to squint to read the text…apologies.
I ran into an issue today. I, like a number of you out there i’m sure, have a number of ical subscriptions which frankly are a must to have by my side (i.e. on my iphone) during my day.
Unfortunately, at this moment in time, mobile me doesn’t sync with calendar subscriptions…which is a pain & NEEDS to be fixed by Apple…
After a number of different attempts, I found a solution.
Every now & again a tool turns up which could potentially expand horizons. Mloovi, in my opinion, is one of them. Mloovi uses google translate RSS feeds, so potentially any blog, into one of 24 different languages.
