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Are translation services redundant? Google beefs up its mobile translation app

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 5 Comments
Bilingual Telephone Conversation

At the beginning of this year Google brought out a mobile app version of Google Translate on Android. What few people noticed was a beta trial of ‘Conversation Mode’ which allowed the user to speak into their phone in English and have it translated into Spanish, or visa versa.

Last week Google updated the app and added another 12 languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish.

The result is a free Continue Reading

This little Jogger* went to Canada’s GoMedia Marketplace

by Jools Stone RSS 11 Comments
GoMedia 2011, Edmonton

Every year Canada throws open its maple scented doors to the world’s media for a 3 day event which sticks its tourism ambassadors in front of inky-fingered travel writers from across the globe. GoMedia Marketplace, this year hosted by Edmonton, Alberta, has to be one of the most useful events for networking and story gathering I’ve ever attended, not to mention fun.

It takes in city tours, launch parties, workshops, networking dinners, an award lunch (including a Continue Reading

Flipping Amazing: HTML Pages To Get Page Flip Reading Tools, As Standard

by Mike Sowden RSS 0 Comments
Red hardcover book with flipping pages

As proven by the iPhone, iPad and Kindle, we love technology that gives the illusion of reading a book. But what if all HTML web pages had page flipping built into them?

Trust Apple. Until they wowed us with their fancy page-flipping, side-swiping touch technology, we seemed quite happy bumbling along with the downwards-scrolling model of page display. We weren’t, of course – hundreds of years of using books instead of scrolls have culturally programmed us to want to turn Continue Reading

Destination-Specific Blogging Has Many Advantages

by Mariellen Ward RSS 21 Comments
Taj Mahal

I blog about India. I have been traveling regularly in India for about six years, and have racked up about 14 months altogether in country. I started blogging from the beginning of my first trip back in 2005, but didn’t launch my “professional” blog, Breathedreamgo.com, until August 2009. Since then, I’ve been building my traffic, content, following and relationships.

At social events and online people often ask me, why India? And they mean, What is it about India that keeps Continue Reading

The Importance Of Booking Travel Slowly: Are We Getting The Message Across?

by Mike Sowden RSS 5 Comments
Train Ticket

Every country has its own rules of public transport, and learning how they work takes time. Are travel bloggers making this clear enough to their readers?

It’s 2008, and I’m sat in an internet cafe in Kirkwall, Orkney. People are looking at me a little nervously. Ten minutes ago I’d rushed in, bathed in sweat and shouting curses, thrown myself down in front of a computer and ordered a triple espresso in a strangled voice. Now I’m Continue Reading

Blurred photos are history

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 3 Comments
blurred image of a crowd

… well most of them could be.

 

Adobe have given a sneak preview of a new Photoshop feature under development that looks like a potential lifesaver for travel bloggers.

The new “anti-blur” feature was showcased to rapturous applause last week at Adobe’s MAX 2011 event in Los Angeles.

It uses sophisticated algorithms to forensically track any tiny movements made by the camera as the image was taken. Then it applies reverse trajectory corrections to ‘undo’ the blur caused by Continue Reading

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