Time goes fast when you are having fun. A couple of weeks back we passed the 200 podcast mark. To mark the ocassion and make consuming our podcast audio lessons easier, we have just released a new BitTorrent file for lessons 100 - 200. The Torrent file is available inside the Podcast […]
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We will be making changes to the notification email we send out every day Monday to Friday. Instead of attaching the PDF transcript to the notification email, the notification email will contain a hyperlink to the location on ChinesePod.com where the transcript can be found. Clicking on the hyperlink will open the transcript […]
Last week we migrated ChinesePod.com to a new server environment better able to manage the increasing amount of traffic created by our growing community of learners. Despite our best efforts the upgrade negatively affected some of our users. And for this we would like to sincerely appologise. We used a local company Sun DNS for […]
Listen to Podcasts on the website
Published by May 16th, 2006 in Tech and About ChinesePod. 9 CommentsWe have just added a new feature that we hope will make ChinesePod easier to use. You can now listen to the audio lessons without leaving the website. Simply click on the Play Now button below the lesson pod description. The audio lesson will begin playing within a few seconds directly from […]
We have successfully (knock on wood) upgraded our server environment on time and within specifications. As for the budget, no word yet but I think I overheard Hank say something about brown bagging lunches? There are a few odds and ends that need to be completed, and we continue to test the system to […]
Important Announcement
Maintenance has been scheduled for ChinesePod.com Wednesday May 10th between 10:30am and 10:30pm Shanghai (and Beijing) time. We are upgrading our server environment to improve performance, and better support our growing community of learners. This means that the ChinesePod.com website will be available intermittently during the upgrade process. We are sorry for […]
After much trial and error ChinesePod is happy to announce that we have restored the ability to Copy & Paste from our PDF lesson transcripts. The ability to copy and paste the dialogue of our daily audio lessons was inadvertently disabled when we upgraded to the current PDF format. The problem now appears […]
Tech Update - Vocab Builder
Published by March 17th, 2006 in Tech, Product Features and About ChinesePod. 24 CommentsOver the past week we have separated out a new section called the “Vocab Builder”. New additions here:
Addition of a “Wiki” Word Type
We have gotten a lot of feedback that the English definitions for many words are incorrect or just plain awkward. The original dictionary we used was based on the CEDICT project. A […]
In order to reduce the lag time in approving comments, we are experimenting with a new “captcha” spam prevention system. When commenting in the ChinesePod weblog, you will now be asked to enter a numerical code hidden in a graphic. Using this system will allow your comments to be immediately added to the […]
A number of new additions to the site:
New Flashcards
First, we have created a new main tab item called “Vocab Builder” which will contain all the glossary, word bank, etc related items. For the Flashcards, we have updated the design and added in a number of user-requested features, such as a counter, first-last & next-previous buttons. […]
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