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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Lawrence who wrote (9583)	11/20/1997 12:43:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 22053

I think you're right. Next time I play Trivial Pursuit, I want you on my side.

To: David Lawrence who wrote (9583)	11/20/1997 3:21:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

TRANSLATE 1.12, DDH Pilot Software What: Cheap multilingual interpreter for Pilot hand-held computers. Details: There you are, a gringo tourista lost in the center of Buenos Aires, and your three years of high school Spanish are doing squat to help you get directions to the airport. You could use one of those $300 single-purpose electronic translators from the Sharper Image -- or if you're one of the estimated 800,000 people to have bought a 3Com PalmPilot, the $240 to $330 pocket-size computer, you can get the same capability with this tiny shareware program, costing no more than a beer in Paris. (The software itself is free, but each language -- including Spanish, French, German and even Esperanto -- costs $12 to install.) Write a word or an entire sentence using the Pilot's Graffiti handwriting-recognition software, and seconds later a workable translation pops out on the screen. While the translations can be incomplete ("is," es in Spanish, is curiously not in the dictionary) and often pay no attention to the sentence structure of other languages, they get you as far as any Berlitz pocket dictionary -- only much faster. The only downer is the size of each language database -- as much as 30 percent of the Pilot's one megabyte of storage space, or more than half of available memory on older models. Bottom line: Universal translator for the '90s. -- Dan Pacheco Pilot, $12 per language, at ddhsoftware.com o~~~ O