http://www.raizparaguay.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:02:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Htchein is Ted (Hsiang-Tai) Chien, who lists a position as Secretary of Wikimedia Taiwan. UPDATE II: After asking for comments, I've decided that my inclination to post workarounds is the right idea. Here's the link I temporarily removed: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/zh/wiki. Commenter htchien points out that Chinese users can now reach the Chinese-language Wikipedia through ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/09/04/even-the-chinese-wikipedia-is-now-available-throug/ Only two new games were released today for the Virtual Console. A puzzler from a familiar face and a side-scrolling beat-em-up game. Pac-Attack (1993, Super Nintendo, 800 Wii points)--See Pac-Man like you've never seen him before in Pac-Attack. One of the first games to remove Pac-Man from his white-dot labyrinth dwelling, ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/30/wii-virtual-console-releases-for-this-week/ (Credit: Newlaunches.com) The glasses are capable of reading MP3 and WMA audio formats, and playing video formats MP4, MPG, AVI, and ASF. That means you can listen to music or watch movies (at a squinty 432x240 resolution) on the specs themselves. This is no Cinemax, to be sure, but the ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/24/catch-a-flick-on-your-sunglasses/ Updated 1:17 p.m. to correct that Google ranked first in the machine-translation accuracy evaluation. Updated 10:50 a.m. PDT with Google's no-comment. Google looks set to launch a beta test of a document translation service, a new move in the company's efforts to break down language barriers. With the service, the ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/21/googles-translation-center-language-lessons-for/ Updated 5 p.m. PDT Tuesday to correct the month of vacation. OK, I'm doing what I can to speed along discussions between Microsoft and Yahoo. I'm taking a vacation. Ordinarily, me leaving the country would be a sure sign that something would happen. Indeed, as soon as I hopped on a plane ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/21/beyond-binary-on-vacation/ My hat goes off to Preston Monroe, the developer of iCopy, an online service that adds cut and paste functionality to the iPhone's browser and e-mail apps. As you probably know, Apple's handheld computer bizarrely omits this feature. Cut-and-paste on the iPhone, via a Web service. (Credit: iCopy video) ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/21/the-cloud-is-not-a-computer/ The battle for your in-box shows no signs of waning. Despite the efforts of software companies large and small, spammers and phishers continue to find and exploit weaknesses in junk-mail filters at the server and client levels. After years of foil and parry between these two forces, you would think ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/21/block-spam-phishing-attempts-in-outlook/ Qwest Communications International is in talks with Verizon Communications to bundle its wireless service with Qwest's broadband and landline voice services, according to a Wednesday report in The Wall Street Journal. Qwest, the only major phone company without its own wireless service, has been reselling wireless service from Sprint Nextel. ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/21/qwest-in-talks-with-verizon-about-wireless-deal/ A bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday in the House of Representatives would ban new state or local takes on mobile phone services for a period of five years. Sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and five co-sponsors, the bill is known as the Cell Tax Fairness Act (HR 5793 ). In ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/21/house-bill-aims-to-ban-new-cell-phone-taxes/ (Credit: Redlasso.com) Three of the largest broadcast TV networks have sent a cease-and-desist letter to RedLasso , a little-known but rapidly growing video syndication site. Fox News Network, NBC Universal, and CBS sent a letter on Monday, accusing the company of "building a business based on the unauthorized syndication of" the ... http://www.raizparaguay.com/index.php/2010/08/21/copyright-fight-brewing-between-tv-networks-and-re/