everything is an experiment
I suppose that this post is a continuation of the one on old software and books.
The Turing programming language (named after Alan Turing) was developed at the University of Toronto as an introductory language for teaching computer programming at the high school level. It was (and apparently still is) widely used in Ontario… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
These are the book and audio packages for two of the languages in the Routledge Colloquials language learning series, namely (Mandarin) Chinese
One application that I always look for in a mobile device is a multilingual dictionary. If one is not available, I can make do with support for multiple input methods (such as through SCIM), access to the internet, and a decent web browser (one that handles non-Latin fonts and right-to-left scripts).
I often end up using a program called Yudit, a Unicode editor written by Gáspár Sinai, even on a system that has native integrated support for multiple input methods, because it’s available on a wide range of systems and I’m familiar with the input methods bundled with it. For example, even though the same input method is supposedly available on both Microsoft Windows and through SCIM, there may be slight differences in the keyboard layouts that can result in typos if one is not careful.
It seems that the majority of wireless handheld devices ship with only one input method. Yudit does not appear to run on any of the major mobile operating systems… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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