Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Add-ons and interesting reads

1)  Rikaichan.  An extension for Firefox that draws a tooltip with translations from Japanese to English/French/German/Russian (you choose) as you roll your mouse over Japanese text. 
Very useful for those of us somewhat unable to break free from the tight grip of the Japanese entertainment industry. =P

Quoting from the site:
Japanese to English/German/French/Russian dictionary. Just hover the mouse on top of a word, and a popup appears. Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives. Detailed kanji view.

Please go to http://rikaichan.mozdev.org/ or http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/ to download a dictionary file for this extension.



As usual, installing extensions to firefox is very easy:  you just click on the link that reads "install now" =]


An interesting article I found today at lifehacker.com is titled: "What happens to your email when you die?"  It reviews this article from C|Net that elaborates about the problems relatives face when a close one dies and takes the passwords to the grave.
I have always considered this, to be honest (and I doubt it'd surprise anyone, really).  Would the ones left behind be able to cancel my accounts? And how easy would that be for them?

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