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Breaking down language barriers in search is a goal for Google, and they just launched a new translation search page to take, hopefully, a giant step in that direction. The page allows you to enter your search phrase, the language you speak and the language that you want to find results in.
As you know, I am a big Serebro fan and they are 100% homegrown Russian girls. So let's put this baby to the test. Now I know that Google's Russian translation machine is in Beta, but hey, they have it listed in the drop down menu. Right.
My first crack at this was to see if it can find the MTV Russia page where I saw some kind of online chat session between MTV and the girl trio. So I enter in "serebro MTV chat", enter. Ah, results -- two columns of them. One for the original language and the other for the translated page.
Well MTV is at the top, but it lands on the home page at MTV Russia and it does not look any different from the original. Sigh. I can see the link for Serebro though. Don't need to understand Russian if it is written in images! And if there is one language I can read, that is Serebro.
Interestingly enough, some of the other results were about unclothed celebs and live internet, something or other. And here I thought the US was the pRoN capital of the world. Boy was I mistaken, Russia has some goods on us there. And some mighty fine goods indeed.
Something seems to be broken on the new search page. If you were to use the ol' tried and true Translate Text box on the original Google Translate page, the translation is not too bad. Even for Russian. I was able to piece together parts of the conversation between the participants. Albeit, it is a tedious one. I just don't understand why this is not wired into the new page correctly.
Anyways, I just broke the tip on the end of my scissors and almost out of school paste. Probably should get up to Walmart before the storm rolls in tonight.
Technorati Tags: google, translate, russian, english, web, pages, foreign, language
As you know, I am a big Serebro fan and they are 100% homegrown Russian girls. So let's put this baby to the test. Now I know that Google's Russian translation machine is in Beta, but hey, they have it listed in the drop down menu. Right.
My first crack at this was to see if it can find the MTV Russia page where I saw some kind of online chat session between MTV and the girl trio. So I enter in "serebro MTV chat", enter. Ah, results -- two columns of them. One for the original language and the other for the translated page.
Well MTV is at the top, but it lands on the home page at MTV Russia and it does not look any different from the original. Sigh. I can see the link for Serebro though. Don't need to understand Russian if it is written in images! And if there is one language I can read, that is Serebro.
Interestingly enough, some of the other results were about unclothed celebs and live internet, something or other. And here I thought the US was the pRoN capital of the world. Boy was I mistaken, Russia has some goods on us there. And some mighty fine goods indeed.
Something seems to be broken on the new search page. If you were to use the ol' tried and true Translate Text box on the original Google Translate page, the translation is not too bad. Even for Russian. I was able to piece together parts of the conversation between the participants. Albeit, it is a tedious one. I just don't understand why this is not wired into the new page correctly.
Anyways, I just broke the tip on the end of my scissors and almost out of school paste. Probably should get up to Walmart before the storm rolls in tonight.
Technorati Tags: google, translate, russian, english, web, pages, foreign, language
Labels: English, foreign, google, language, pages, Russian, search, translate, translation, web
Web developer cheat sheets still have their place even with the newer editors with auto-completion built into it. Print these bad-boys out and tack them to that cork board next to your workspace, or stack them on your reading material in the loo.
Most of the sheets come from Jack Daniel's cheatsheet area. There are a few more in there for RGB colors and Html entities, but felt that was going a little overboard.
- .htaccess
- CSS
- Dreamweaver MX
- Html
- Illustrator CS2
- JavaScript
- microformats
- mod_rewrite
- mySQL
- Photoshop CS2
- PHP
- Regular Expressions (RegEx)
- XHtml
Most of the sheets come from Jack Daniel's cheatsheet area. There are a few more in there for RGB colors and Html entities, but felt that was going a little overboard.
Labels: css, design, html, javascript, mysql, php, regex, web
If picture s are worth a thousand words are still not enough to teach you about bad web design, then maybe video presentations on the subject will.
Vincent Flanders, who coined the phrase "Learn good web design by looking at bad web design" from his WebPagesThatSuck site, has taken his craft into the realm of vLogging.
Personally, I like his glossy pictures with arrows and descriptions instead of the YouTube presentations. His videos suck as stand-alones, and only come into context if presented with companion articles.
Vincent Flanders, who coined the phrase "Learn good web design by looking at bad web design" from his WebPagesThatSuck site, has taken his craft into the realm of vLogging.
Personally, I like his glossy pictures with arrows and descriptions instead of the YouTube presentations. His videos suck as stand-alones, and only come into context if presented with companion articles.
Labels: design, tutorials, web
At AIGA's national conference in September 2005, Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse Studio presented ABC's John Stossel the three
most important design mistakes Americans make. Jessica, a
media consultant of very good standing, holds a B.A. and M.F.A. in
graphic design from Yale University.
Jessica, noticing Stossel's disconcern over the matter, added:
Paul Rand was mentioned in the report. Rand was a well-known American graphic
designer, best known for his corporate identities (logos, if you will) for IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, Westinghouse, and UPS (original UPS logo has since been replaced).
See the report via YouTube.
most important design mistakes Americans make. Jessica, a
media consultant of very good standing, holds a B.A. and M.F.A. in
graphic design from Yale University.
Jessica, noticing Stossel's disconcern over the matter, added:
"In the 27 years that (20/20) has been on the air, you have never done a story on graphic design. Why is that?"Apparently, Stossel pondered the question, and it prompted him to produce an in-depth report the following season. The report included some font selection guidelines that, up until now, I have been completely oblivious to.
Paul Rand was mentioned in the report. Rand was a well-known American graphic
designer, best known for his corporate identities (logos, if you will) for IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, Westinghouse, and UPS (original UPS logo has since been replaced).
See the report via YouTube.
Labels: design, graphics, logos, web