Firefox Add-ons

The growing number of supported languages on BrainKing brings a small problem of understanding what the opponent says if he uses BrainKing in, say, Bengali localization and expects you to speak this language as well. Of course, it would make no sense to spend an awful amount of time to implement BrainKing's internal translation service (although there were some requests of this kind in the past). Instead, it's easier to use what is already done.

There is a nice Firefox extension called Translator (a descriptive name) which resides at the browser's bottom margin and when it's activated by a right-click, it offers a nice collection of instant translation services (see the picture). It can be configured to select one of six free servers to redirect the translation request to and simply returns the translated page at a new window or tab. Although it cannot make miracles, in most cases it can give you a picture of what is the foreign language text about and I have successfully used it recently on the Chinese board.

By the way, there could be a short downtime tonight because our ISP plans to do some network works. They should not exceed a minute, hopefully.

First of all, the image uploading issue should be fixed. I just didn't expect there was something like "image/pjpeg" type, so I have added it to the list of supported types. It should stand for Progressive JPG and I hope there won't be any more problems with that.

Well, I don't think anybody would become as good as a native speaker with this tool, so don't take the entry subject too seriously, but I have found it very useful and interesting. If you use Firefox, try to install the ChinesePera-kun extension, it can be downloaded from this page.
After installing, select Tools / Toggle ChinesePera-kun, open some BrainKing page, switch to Chinese by clicking on the small Chinese flag and move your mouse cursor over a text. You should see something similar to the attached screenshot.

The home page of this extension says a Japanese version is available as well, so when the Japanese localization of BrainKing is released, it can make another neat pair of features.