Never done it, but doesn’t look too hard according to this website:
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Quick Translator
This web language translator is quick… but I’m not sure how accurate. Give it a try and let me know how well it works!
Languages that are supported are: English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and French.
A Currency Exchanger
I wrote a little program called Exch that simplfies currency exchange and the retrieval of up to date exchange rates.
If you are already using Firefox 1.5 extensively it integrates well as a sidebar.
- View a flash movie from the project site that shows visually how to install the extension in Firefox 1.5
- Install the Firefox 1.5 Extension
- -or- download the standalone desktop application for either Linux or Windows.
More:
Other extensions I have been involved with.
Exch project on Mozdev.
Exch for Linux
I just uploaded Exch for Linux. It was excitingly difficult to make a tar.gz file off of the command line because Ark wasn’t playing nice on Kanotix.
For those who would like to make a tar.gz file of an entire directory, here’s how:
tar -cvf filename.tar directoryName
And then issue this command:
gzip filename.tarVoila, you should have:
filename.tar.gz
Exch
Exch is a small utility written in XUL and JavaScript that utilizes the XULRunner runtime. It allows the user to enter two currencies and get them converted from one to the other using data obtained from Yahoo! Finance.
As much as Exch is an exercise in XUL development, and an example of XUL to others, it is quite useful also!
Check out the installation page and try Exch out. You must have a working Internet connection while using the program because it fetches information from over the web.