Language learning app Lingua.ly has introduced a suite of new features for its iOS app, including the incorporation of open-source phrase translation platform Tatoeba and the ability to adjust difficulty settings to suit your skills. The updated app now lets you select a feed to suit your learning ability and the Tatoeba feature surfaces more local, colloquial phrases for your chosen language and area as well. Lingua.ly helps users learn languages by reading articles based on their interests, presented in a news feed to make the process seem more natural. The algorithm behind Lingua.ly works by indexing numerous foreign newspapers and blogs…
The more people start to get excited about an app, the more the instinct to push back starts kicking around in my guts. Last week, the arrival of Periscope kicked off a rash of ‘hot takes‘ on how live streaming is about to change news, change our lives, hell, change the whole goddamn world. But it’s not going to. Certainly not in the hyperbole-drenched way “this will change everything!” people think. It will change the way a small subset of people do their jobs and put even more sources in front of the eyeballs of the world’s newsgatherers but it won’t…
Monday morning is not your friend. It doesn’t want to help ease you into the week, it wants you to hit the ground running and keep going until you drop at the end of Friday. However, we’ve got other ideas. We want you to start your week with a coffee and a catch-up. So here’s all the best tech news and features you ‘ve missed over the last two days. You’re welcome. News from The Next Web over the weekend You Can Now Play a Super Mario 64 Remake in Your Browser Uploader Lets You Send Photos to Instagram From your Mac Ellen Pao Loses Sexual Discrimination…
Amazon may be the go-to place to shop online for physical goods, but it’s not of much use when your sink is clogged and you need a plumber, or want to have your broken iPhone screen fixed. Fret no more, as the company now lets you order a professional to your home with the aptly named ‘Amazon Home Services’, accessible at Amazon.com/services. After entering your zip code, the page lists a variety of services you can book in your area such as repairs, installations and lessons. Amazon lists prices upfront, and businesses are required to offer the same prices online as they…
Comments are where the party is. Sure, you can subscribe to comments on blogs post by post, but sometimes the article doesn’t seem that relevant to you at the time, so you don’t bother. And then someone posts some gem that you wished you had known about. And you missed it, because it wasn’t in the original piece.
And on a site like this one that predates my interest in Excel by like over a decade, I find comments from the Comment Feed often alert me to helpful stuff I’ve missed. But retrospectively subscribing one post at a time in order to catch them ain’t a serious option. So a global comments feed is one of the handiest ways for people to consume great content – often NOT written by the original author – for years to come.
My favorite used to be the Bacon Bits comments feed: most of those comments were as risque as Mike’ articles. But then he had to go spoil things by adding a spam filter.
Ah well…the Captcha almost makes up for it:
Anyone else have any great global comments feeds on the main Excel sites out there worth sharing?