Apple’s Macintosh operating system and the Chinese language have a long history. Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate college student, well before the advent of Mac OS X and the rise of Unicode, I was already happily inputing Chinese on my Mac and delighted in amazing my friends with the Apple Chinese voice [...]
During the past year or so, and especially in the last few weeks, I owe a great deal of thanks to a machine I call a PDF scanner, since I don’t know what it normally called. The scanner looks like a photocopy machine with a computer screen attached to it. Like a regular photocopy machine [...]
I got a cheap used Griffin AirClick for USB to control my older laptop Macintosh by remote control. Another remote I like better (KeyPOINT) has been acting up so I got the Griffin as a replacement. The downside with Griffin is that it has fewer buttons, no mouse control, and a limited set of applications [...]
Microsoft’s new book search site Live Search Books is, well, live. It doesn’t work in the Safari browser, but it works fine in Firefox. I have only played around with it a bit, but I can already say that for those interested in doing historical research, the new Microsoft book search offers two major advantages [...]
My last few postings have all been tech related. Since most of my history related postings are also Asian history related postings, I post those increasingly at Frog in a Well. I’ve been in a hacking mood in the last few weeks, especially since I’ve been working on some new projects at Frog in a [...]
In my last posting I shared a script I put together to use with the shortcut application Quicksilver to quickly create To-do items in iCal. I am now using this all the time. I have separate scripts, based on the same which create a medium priority “READ: ” to-do for things I want to put [...]
While waiting for a plane here at the airport I got bored and decided to make a little Applescript for Quicksilver. For those of you who don’t already use Quicksilver and use a Macintosh computer, I recommend it as a way of significantly increasing your productivity. It is hard to explain what it is but [...]
Does anyone have an ID/Password at the Korean newspaper Hankyoreh (or the means to create one easily for me?) who might be willing to share their access with me? If so, I would be most grateful if I might use it to access their web page (you can email me via the contact link above). [...]
Some of you may have heard the news that some MIT students got their computer generated Computer Science paper, consisting of grammatically correct mumbo jumbo, accepted as a non-reviewed paper at some conference. You can create your own paper with their code here. My friend Jai and I were discussing how fun it would be [...]
I played around a little with the Music Plasma website. Put in a favorite singer and get a spatial map of music “surrounding” that artist. It is fascinating to use, but more importantly, when combined with something like the iTunes music store for browsing the songs of various artists (30 second snippets of each song) [...]