translation api update
I don’t know if this qualifies as good news or not, but Yahoo is working on making an api for translation. So we’ll see…
Widgets
There is this commentary on the state of widgets. One comment that I found interesting is “This isn’t how Dashboard was intended to be used.”. Probably not, but in a way, it was foreseeable. Like television, which had lofty initial intent, and has fallen a bit short of the mark though use.
One thing to keep in mind is the top 50 demonstrates one common trait: people like diversions, and also demonstrates people have different tastes when it comes to what makes a diversion (not that we needed any more evidence of this).
The dashboard is an extension of a desktop, and people put little toys on their desktops.
Neighbours Update - Red or Blue server?
Small update to sim neighbours. Nothing new on the HUD front, but on the site you can now check if your server is living in Texas or Cali. Thanks to Pixeleen Mistral for requesting this feature. I wanted a fancy little Texas/Cali icon, but that will wait till later. Figured people would rather have the info than wait for me to pretty it up.
liner notes
Adium just updated to 1.0. I’m one of those people who scan the what’s changed info. I thought this was a funny find: ” * Consulted the Vorlon”
Babbler info update
Just to keep people in the loop - no word yet from any of the big boys. Still working on other possible solutions. In the mean time, it's on, but when traffic gets too high, google throws me an error, and you'll get the error message. I tried rigging up through proxies, but thats got limited success, since the proxies can be unreliable at times.
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