Monday, December 22, 2014

iOS 8 Safari Translation Feature

Earlier this year I had not been able to get the integrated translation feature which is supposed to be present in iOS 8, at least for Safari, to work, but now it does, and some instructions for setting it up can be found at

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-translate-websites-in-safari-on-ios-8/

It covers 44 languages.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

OS X 10.10 Yosemite: Reference Dictionaries Provided by Apple

WIth the 5 added in Yosemite, the full list (shown below) is impressive.


OS X 10.10 Yosemite: New Devanagari Fonts

In Yosemite Apple added 3 new Devanagari fonts (ITF, Kohinoor, Shree) and switched the default from the venerable Devanagari MT to Kohinoor.  Kohinoor and ITF have a larger number of weights than the earlier fonts,  and Shree includes an italic version.   Samples are provided below: