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  • Web now supports non-Latin characters for addresses

    Web now supports non-Latin characters for addresses

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Pretty important day in the history of the World Wide Web, if not the Internet as a whole. ICANN, sorta the Internet's regulator, will for the first time now allow non-Latin characters for Web addresses. That means that, if we wanted, sometime in the future we could register a Russian version of CrunchGear.com at KPYHЧГИP.PYC (that's just an example, who knows what the actual Russian country code will be). Took them long enough!

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  • Jibbigo iPhone app translates from English to Spanish and back again

    Jibbigo iPhone app translates from English to Spanish and back again

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments

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    Jibbigo is a recently released iPhone app which promises to help you out the next time you're desperately trying to make yourself understood by your Spanish-speaking compadres. The app is capable of recording a sentence and translating it -- essentially in real time -- back to you. As you can see in the screencap above, you can speak either Spanish or English, and the translator will do its work, displaying both your original and a translation into the other language. The dictionary contains about 40,000 words, and the app is aimed at travelers. Jibbigo also requires the iPhone 3GS to make use of the bi-directional translation tools, and the app also reportedly functions a heck of a lot slower on anything other than the 3G. The app is available now for $24.99.

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