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- Translate.Net (Net)
- Translate.Net is client to many language services available online (translators, monolingual, and bilingual dictionaries). 17 services, 25 languages, 1352 translations directions. Used services - Google dictionary and Google translator, Wikipedia and wiktionary, SYSTRAN translator used by Altavista Babel Fish. Features: ability to create user profiles - custom set of services,...
- Tags: Language, Oleksii Prudkyi, Translate.Net, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- Upvise Wikipedia for Windows Mobile (cab)
- Search Wikipedia from your mobile phone. Download the complete article with a formatting optimized for small mobile device screens. You can also save your favorite articles to your phone and read them even when you are offline. More than 2 Million articles are available from this mobile version of Wikipedia,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Wikipedia, Unyverse, Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-05-05
- Five security tips from MediaWiki's lead developer
- Brion Vibber, the Wikimedia Foundation's lead developer, is the guiding hand behind the ongoing improvement of MediaWiki. MediaWiki is one of the most widely-used Web applications in the world, and is the software basis for Wikipedia. On the Wikitech mailing list, he offered some insight into how he...
- Tags: Software, Developer, Security, Abstraction, Tool, MediaWiki, Wiki, Productivity, Online Communications, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Interview with technology and science writer Annalee Newitz
- TechRepublic Out Loud has been a wonderful platform to highlight the TR community and happenings on the site. I'd now like to branch out a bit and include information and interviews with some uber cool people who are also involved in IT. They might not be members of TechRepublic yet,...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Technology, Annalee Newitz, Nanotechnology, Podcasts, Wiki, Professional Development, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Online Communications, Career, Management, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Create your own Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Creat a real-life version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy abridged following these easy steps: Procure an outdated handheld PC Pave over the handheld OS with Linux Download the complete Wikipedia onto the device Slap a Don't Panic sticker on the cover ...
- Tags: Handhelds, Wiki, Linux, Hardware, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Encyclopedia (gadget)
- This Encyclopedia gadget has 40 of the Best online Encyclopedia sites. Starting with American Studies, Anime, Artcyclopedia, Astronomy, Bartleby, Botany, Britannica, Canadian, Catholic, CIA Fact Book, Earth, Encarta, Food, Holocaust, Jewish, Legal US, Library of Congress, Life, Literary, Medical, Medieval Studies, MIT Sciences, Mythical, Nasa, Philosophy, Plant, Psychology, Reference, Scholarpedia,...
- Tags: Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets, Wiki, Food & Beverage, Online Communications, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2008-05-05
- Platinum Arts Sandbox (2)
- Sandbox is a game design tool that allows users to quickly and easily create and edit their own worlds in game, even cooperatively. It is free, open source, and easy to use. In addition it now features cart mode where players can create their own race courses and drive on...
- Tags: Sandbox, Platinum Arts, Platinum Arts Sandbox, Productivity, Games, Wiki, Personal Technology, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-04-29
- University professor says Wikipedia fosters a climate of blind trust
- The associate professor of information systems from Deakin University believes that the popular online encyclopedia promotes an environment of blind trust among users searching for information. Professor Lichtenstein, who is is co-leading a team of researchers to determine how Wikipedia operates, is not impressed with Wikipedia's model...
- Tags: Professor, Wikipedia, Lichtenstein, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Product Demo: Get a Firsthand Look at QEDWiki in Action!
- Built with PHP on the Zend Framework, the QEDWiki is a sophisticated "application wiki" that extends the wiki concept significantly. Drag and drop application elements onto wiki pages, connect them through Web Services, and create composite applications that solve real-world business needs. View the QEDWiki demo to see how PHP...
- Tags: Zend Technologies Ltd., Wiki, Online Communications
- Presentations
- NMC 2.0: The Content Is You
- In the analysis and promotion of web-technology, the phrase Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services - such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies - which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O'Reilly Media...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Wiki, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Presentations
- Web.2.What?
- In the analysis and promotion of web-technology, the phrase Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services - such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies - which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O'Reilly Media...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Wiki, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Presentations
- Trussville Schools Dream Big: Teachers Gain Flexibility With HP Business Notebooks
- A new Alabama school district wanted the right technology foundation for a one-to-one computer initiative. With the birth of the four-school, 4,000-student district came the funding to enable teachers and administrators to dream anew about how technology could be used to help raise the quality of education. From that process...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Teacher, Notebooks, Productivity, Podcasts, Wiki, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, Online Communications
- Case studies
- How out of date are your IT skills?
- The longer your career as an IT professional, the more things you learn. Unfortunately, because the IT field changes so rapidly, many of the things you learn become obsolete. What do you do with all of those old useless skills? How about collect em all and...
- Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Modems, Word Processors, Wiki, Professional Development, Strategy, Hardware, Components, Software, Online Communications, Career, Management, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Kraken: The biggest, baddest botnet yet
- At the recent RSA 2008 gathering Damballa, an Internet security company devoted solely to researching botnet technology, is reporting some "not so good news." In the article, "Kraken BotArmy-Twice as Big as Storm; Evades over 80% of Installed Antivirus Software" pdf Ashley Vandiver of Damballa explains: This new...
- Tags: Technique, Researcher, Server, Zombie, Computer, Damballa, Kraken BotArmy-Twice, Storm, Productivity, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Michael Kassner
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- IT news for April 15: Oracle plugs 41 holes; Mac clones; Google revolution
- "News to know" is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet. The original post publishes every morning on business days in Between the Lines. Notable headlines for Tuesday, April 15, 2008: Paul Mah: Security news roundup: Oracle announces bonanza of patches for 41 holes,...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Wiki, Sales Force Management, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Sales, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Use Wiki-based runbook automation to promote a collaborative capture of best practices
- The technology analyst firm Gartner recently predicted that half of the companies in the US will have wikis in one form or another by the end of next year. Wikis are fast and dynamic and particularly useful in developing a consensus over a broad user group. They are optimized when...
- Tags: Team, Best Practice, Tool, Automation, Wiki, Online Communications, Jeff Cerny
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- The Big Brother Awards
- In Montreal, Canada, at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in May 2007, Privacy International presented the first International Big Brother Awards. The "winners" of the Big Brother Awards are, in the words of Privacy International: the government and private sector organisations which have done the...
- Tags: Nominee, Privacy International, U.K., ChoicePoint Inc., Wikipedia, Wiki, Government, Web Site Development, Online Communications, Internet, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- Wiki technology appearing all over the place
- Wiki, a technology for online encyclopedias and other documentation, is beginning to find itself in some interesting places. A Stanford professor has proposed that wiki technology be used in Congress to help make the process more transparent. In addition, he wants his "wiki-army" to help stamp out cronyism...
- Tags: Wiki, Online Communications, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Encyclopedia English (zip)
- Look no further - the world's biggest Encyclopedia for mobile devices. Over 1.5 million articles, 100 times as many articles as in Concise Encyclopedia Britannica. Product Features: Over 1.5 million articles carefully checked for accuracy and completeness by a team of experts. Hundred times as many articles as in Concise...
- Tags: Article, MobileReference, Encyclopedia Britannica, Wiki, Team Management, Online Communications, Management
- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- Build your dream arcade game from spare parts
- Pretty much anybody who was remotely sapient during the 1980s has a fond place in his heart for classic arcade games--we have evidence of this here at TR--but the dream of owning an actual arcade game is still priced beyond the means of the average geek. Enter: The homebrew solution....
- Tags: Cabinet, Arcade, Arcade Game, Corporate Communications, Games, Wiki, Marketing, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
