Linguistic Accessibility of Websites

Linguistic Accessibility of Websites

The power and prowess of websites is better known by the quantity of content, its reach, the impressions it had made on its' visitors mind, to name a few parameters.

With respect to the reach, the website can best reach by providing translation services to reach the audience in thier native language for best appeal.

Linguistic Translation does not need extensive groundwork to start with however, a minimal startup requires only associating the website with a few translation webservices and websites. I would like to share with the readers a few translation websites that aide in this perspective:

• Google Translate -> http://www.google.com/translate_t
• Free Translation -> http://www.freetranslation.com/
• Altavista Babelfish -> http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Quick and Easy Network Tools

Quick and Easy Network Tools

Managing and maintaining a significantly sized network does always carries with it significant responsibilities and that too in this world of Internet, which is filled with viruses, trojan horses and all sort of hackers. The responsibility and head-aches still increase when it comes to the point of production servers.

Fortunately, just like free email services, a lot of enterprises and open source developers have come together to remotely host services that aide in network management.

I would like to share some significant of them, which will be of real use.

• Reverse DNS Look: Check out this website hosted by 12Dt.com/ which offers efficient reverse DNS resolution of a given IP address. Free services are restricted to 100 requests per IP address and subject to cookie support in the web browser.
• Protected Whois Check: Whois databases too have been victims of spammers getting the email addresses by automated tools. Check out this protected whois database from Godaddy.

QBasic and Related Downloads

QBasic and Related Downloads

Following up my previous post, a few friends of mine were asking how to get QBasic and related help. As such and as far as I know, I don't think the current versions of Windows (Windows XP or Windows 2003) has Qbasic.exe shipping along with it.

A search in Google revealed the following MSDOS Utilities. Perhaps, I would like to share it among the readers. But the following things need to be clarified and I have posted in some community newsgroup. Once I get the response,  I would try updating them over here:

• Compatibility of these programs with the current Win32 model.
• Future compatibility of these programs as Win64 gains sway.
• License restrictions.

Perhaps if some reader of this blogpost has some answers, feel free to share with others as blog comments.

Power of QBasic

Power of QBasic

QBasic, the MSDOS version of QuickBasic and successor to BASICA, Turbo Basic and GWBasic. There are some cool features in this language, that I think even the current ones do not directly and so easily support.

For example, there are three simple commands like Play, Sound and Beep. While Beep is supported by an escape sequence and the ASCII character code, sound and Play do not find direct equivalents in Visual Basic or even in C#.

I am trying to understand this and perhaps if you visit Experts-Exchange and particularly this page, you would find an interesting discussion on this topic.

'This webpage could not be saved'

'This webpage  could not be saved'

How many times you have confronted this message when attempting to use File -> Save WebPage complete. I think in these cases, which also takes up more diskfiles and a folder is being created, you can use Web Archive (.MHT) file name extension.

Check out this article for the problem description and resolution: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q235589

CTRL+Enter in Internet Explorer

CTRL+Enter in Internet Explorer

CTRL+Enter is really a very useful feature in Internet Explorer.  We type google and CTRL+Enter automatically prefixes the TLD suffix and www and navigates to the URL. Myself and my friend faced a piquant situation yesterday. It was not working.

After a brief tweaks and fiddling with IE Options, we observed that this is dependent on Tools -> Internet Options -> Content -> Autocomplete checkbox to be enabled. Only then it works.

Also, it would be interesting to go a bit deep into the technical background of CTRL+Enter too and perhaps this technical background also helps us to customize it.  Check out Jeff's WebLog for details.