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Spend a day without Internet connection after upgrading to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). My MacBook Pro would get an IP address from the router, browser and mail software couldn’t connect to the Internet, Skype could. The solution: added DNS servers in Network preferences (thanks to the Alice Tech Support).
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http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ You can paste in text in Unicode, the tool will convert to several different codes that you might need for development. This is the above text in decimal code points: 89 111 117 32 99 97 110 32 112 97 115 116 101 32 105 110 32 116 101 120 116 32 105 110 32...
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Tag Galaxy. An alternative photo search engine. Extremely cool, astonishingly simple. via ReadWriteWeb
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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You...
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A Greek Grammar for Colleges I found this site very useful (I have to check Smyth’s grammar for reference purposes and this site is better than Smyth@Perseus). It’s the same XML-text, I suppose, but presented differently. Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Betacode description: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html Online tools: 1. Sean Redmond’s Greek Font to Unicode converter: http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode/ CGI based conversion tool, supports cut&paste. 2. Cental (Centre du traitement automatique du langage) Beta Code to Unicode Converter: http://130.104.253.20/beta2uni/ Lets you upload and convert whole files from the TLG CD ROM to Unicode. 3. Michael Neuhold’s greekconverter: http://members.aon.at/neuhold/antike/grkconv.html (inactive?) Java-Applets and downloadable Java-Classes for converting between...
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HyperPo :: Digital Text Reading Environment This is a site that earned my “wow”: interactive text analysis on the server, great visualization, fantastic for teaching and research. Impressed! Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: textanalysis, hypertext
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In my present job I am heavily involved with language description: reading through loads of texts, identifying interesting linguistic features, storing them in a custom-build database. That’s good for some phenomena that you can not easily identify with other means; sometimes you just have to use the computer and scan a large amount of...
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A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the
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A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the
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