“Google Translator Toolkit helps translators translate better and more quickly through one shared, innovative translation technology.” It’s a collaborative environment for machine- and human-translation of documents. Users can upload a document, pretranslate it, invite others to help its translation and then export the translated document.

Three stories of iPad technolust; three people who are averse to computers. One, a grandmother who is frustrated with and never speaks about computers. Another who is technophobe who reluctantly uses computers for work but loves his iPhone. The last, a contractor who hates computers, dismisses tech talk but wants an iPad for his business. … Read more

Google released mock-ups and animations of a Chrome OS concept tablet. Yes, mock-ups and animations. Of a concept. They’re not even real and the experience still sucks. (A keyboard tied to a resizable window?) Google could have shown a 3D desktop with kittens coming out of the screen, softly brushed aside by waving hands. Instead, … Read more

I used Mail Act-On for one purpose: to quickly sort my inbox mail into action, hold and archive boxes. Unfortunately, Mail Act-On costs money. Fortunately, those simple actions can be done with Applescript and Quicksilver triggers. You’ll need to add the Scripts directory to Quicksilver’s catalog for this to work. The triggers should be configured … Read more

“Provides a CAPTCHA for Python using the reCAPTCHA service. Does not require any imaging libraries because the CAPTCHA is served directly from reCAPTCHA.” The reCAPTCHA service also helps to digitize books.