Manage your Android and iOS Apps Translations using GlotPress

Youย are a mobile developer with an app on the store, serving thousands of people in different languages. But localizing the app โ€” back and forth with your in-house translators every time you release a build โ€” is a pain. Here is how to fix that, with a relatively undocumented yet open source software called GlotPress.

Integrating GlotPress User Tables With Another Software

I was actively working with LimeSurvey during Google Code-in ’11 and had promised them to integrate GlotPress with LimeSurvey (user tables) to help the translators and completed it some weeks back (though this was not the end result that they actually wanted, I’ll work on that later – thought I should write this before I… Continue reading Integrating GlotPress User Tables With Another Software

Making a Simple OCR Android App using Tesseract

Recognizing text using your Android phone. Not exactly the end result of this blog post, but what you could achieve.

This post tells you how you can easily make an Android application to extract the text from the image being captured by the camera of your Android phone! We’ll be using a fork of Tesseract Android Tools by Robert Theis called Tess Two. They are based on the Tesseract OCR Engine (mainly maintained by Google)… Continue reading Making a Simple OCR Android App using Tesseract

Releasing bb Mystique v1.0 – Mystique Theme for bbPress!

bb Mystique

You must have heard of the famous Mystique theme for WordPress, haven’t you? Well, I’ve ported it over to bbPress and it can be downloaded from here. As bbPress is not that much extensive as WordPress is (in features), there are some things which are missing from the port – like the widgetized sidebar, menus,… Continue reading Releasing bb Mystique v1.0 – Mystique Theme for bbPress!

bbPress as a WordPress Plugin

There have been developments in the bbPress Trac in recent days, the plugin branch is now there (but of course not ready for use). JJJ and PeteMall have been working on it. And what more, I received my first props for the plugin :P. Another thing is that now I would be rarely updating/adding plugins… Continue reading bbPress as a WordPress Plugin