Every now and then, new technology is introduced that just makes you say, "WOW!" This is one of them. The technology to have voice-to-text and vice versa to text is already widely available. If you want it, you can get it right now. One such example is Jott. However something that isn’t available currently is real time language translation...

As a writer/journalist I try in my best effort to write content that makes grammatical sense. It is true I do break the traditional rules by using fragments, run-on sentences (like this one), shortening words for creative effect (ex: "Good ol’ IBM), starting sentences with and or but, and so on – but with blogging that’s acceptable because...

Did you know Bing has a language translator? Neither did I until yesterday. I found it quite by accident. Bing really needs to promote this utility more. A lot more. It truly is great. Bing uses a side-by-side layout with highlighting so you can easily see what’s being translated from what. In addition, auto-detect is the first choice on load of the site...

Admittedly this information is old, however I had to reinstall XP on a laptop recently and after updating it with SP3 and whatever other patch/fix I needed to install, the Language Bar appeared in the taskbar. It’s a safe assumption to say the vast majority of Windows users have absolutely no use for this – myself included. So here’s how to get...

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