The up-to-date article on the recent earthquake in Japan is a testament of Wikipedia’s ability to help bring together people from around the world to produce something useful – and fast! At the time of writing this post, the English version of this article is already being translated into a mind-boggling figure of over 48 unique languages! A tool that may perhaps makes this translation effort a bit faster – Wikibhasha from Microsoft Research.
12 Mar 2011
10 Mar 2011
My favourite portable applications
I am always in search of useful software. Particularly small utilities that I can use everyday. I also love trialling new softwares. But the side effect is I am a bit hesitant to install them for the fear of messing my system. Which is why I often find myself using portable applications. Actually this is so popular, most popular software tools are available in a "portable" version. If you have no idea of what a portable app is or are simply interested in the ones I use - read on anyway.
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