Tag Archives: translation

Vote for Twitter to be translated into Welsh

At the moment Twitter’s web interface is only available in four languages – English, Japanese, French and Spanish. Also on the way now are Italian and German. So Twitter Inc have decided to increase support for the world’s languages, which is an excellent move. They’ll be asking users to collaborate on translating the interface, which [...]

Google Translate is now instant. But still fun (and dangerous).

Google Translate has already accelerated my Welsh learning. It helps to decipher a daunting piece of text. Now Google Translate is instant. They changed the interface slightly and it flashes up the equivalent translation as you type. Boy. In other words you get the same flawed “translations”, now even faster! Try it for Welsh to [...]

Peiriant cyfieithu yn y dyfodol, agos a phell

On my blog I am now using two languages – English and Welsh. The English language posts will continue as before. Every Welsh language post (of which below is the first) will have a quick summary at the top in English (like this one). This is something I’ve decided to adopt, to fit the way [...]

Do You Use WordPress? Cardiff welcomes WordCamp in July 2009

WordPress has become the platform of choice for many people, for conventional blogs and also as a fully-fledged, customisable CMS. It’s a seriously good piece of software. If you don’t care about the technical reasons, it’s very easy to use. In my opinion, that’s what a blog should be – as simple as possible so [...]