Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
Yes we all know; Google translator is best described as “quick and dirty”. Nonetheless, we all use it because it…
Category: Software
The Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic
In 2013 the Arabic Center for Research and Politics Studies launched an ambitious ongoing program to build an Arabic Historical…
Creating a Digital Timeline
By James Harry Morris Digital timelines can be useful not only as teaching resources, but as part of a presentation, as…
Making online interactive maps with Leaflet (Part 1)
If you study or teach humanities and social sciences and are interested in digital tools, you have probably heard of…
Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️
In this post our Arabo-Islamic Studies editor Maxim digs deeper into searching full-text Arabic corpora, comparing Shamela with Elkirtasse. He shows us…
Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer
The most famous Arabic digital library (both online and on computer) is al-Shamila. It contains roughly 7260 Arabic books (when this…
Apps for Learning Cursive Japanese
By James Harry Morris Learning how to read cursive Japanese script (or alternatively cursive Chinese script) is one of the…
Running Windows software on Mac
Many people in universities have a Mac. Yet, the world still for the most part runs on Windows. This can…
Improved Keyboard Layout for Mac!
The Digital Orientalist presents… a new way of painlessly typing Arabic on a Mac! After the success of the keyboard…
The future of document scanning: we are not there yet
Evernote’s new automatic document scanner is an interesting look at how we will be able to scan text materials with…