Now THIS is school spirit. University of Kansas students working together to help other students get through tough times.
via EduDemic.
Author: tokyokevin
-
Foreign Service Language Courses now free
The Foreign Service institute, the school that teaches diplomats languages, has free courses available. These courses were developed with government money and are old enough (before 1989) to be in the public domain. Although dated, these courses include texts (in pdf) and tapes (in mp3), all ported to the Internet by a wonderful non-profit group. Via BoingBoing. The site was mentioned by LifeHacker and so too many people tried to download at the same time. When the servers are available again, you should check it out, or even Czeck it out. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
-
Google Goggles adds translation
Over at Mashable, they report that Google is adding translation to their new (still in development) Goggles, which can recognize objects and words. Designed for a phone with a camera, it is a great way to get information. -
Google Translate Update
Google Translate has added new features making it a lot easier to use. For those of us in Japan, the best one is “romanization” which allows you to get the pronunciation through roman letters of the kanji in question. Read more about it at Mashable. Here is a video that shows the new features.
-
GTDInbox works…unless it really works
I finally emptied by inbox, the holy grail of GTD (Getting Things Done, a book by David Allen). GTD is a system of organizing and dealing with incoming information. Most of that information for me is in the form of email. A great implementation of the system in software is the GTDInbox, a free Firefox add-on that really works well.
It was, therefore, funny, today, to get an error message for GTD, presumably because my inbox was empty!
UPDATE! A nice GTDInbox employee pointed out this was a problem with my web access, not with GTDInbox.
Error message for GTDinbox