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iTranslate arrives for Mac with support for 80+ languages, and you can grab it now for $4.99

Jul11
by on July 11, 2014 at 10:19 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

Language translation app iTranslate is now available to download for Mac devices, completing the complement of major platforms on which the service is available. Just like the Windows Phone, iOS, Android and Windows versions of iTranslate, the app supports more than 80 languages and voice output. Once installed, iTranslate sits neatly in your status bar waiting for your next translation challenge. Handily, the app can also return results from multiple dictionaries at a time for a single search and supports Romanization, thereby transforming non-Latin languages into Latin characters. This feature is available for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Hindi, Russian and…

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Southeast Asia has never had so many VC funds. Here’s why that’s important.

Jul11
by on July 11, 2014 at 9:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Southeast Asia

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What a past few months it has been for Southeast Asia’s startup scene. Now, venture capitalists are setting aside funds for young technology companies in this part of the world. The relatively sparse opportunities for funding mean that startups in Southeast Asia often take routs that differ from their Western peers – for example games-maker Garena fronted Singapore-based online grocer Redmart’s entire $3 million Series A round. However, the surge in investor dollars, a large part of which comes from Japan, means that there have never been so many high-profile funding sources here before. To recap, here are some of the new sources of funding that have emerged…

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GitHub for Mac simplified with a focus on faster navigation

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by on July 11, 2014 at 8:22 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Four weeks after GitHub introduced a chunky revamp of its Windows app, the social coding platform’s Mac app has now been given a li’l lovin’ too. The latest GitHub for Mac features a more simplified navigation, with a “renewed focus on your cloned repositories,” the announcement says – a ‘repository’ being a holding pen for your work history. In the sidebar, you’ll now see all your repositories grouped by origin, with a new toolbar enabling you to quickly clone or create more repositories. In terms of cloning, which often means creating copies of an existing repository locally from a remote…

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