Wikipedia has been the result of millions of people creating and editing documents. But, since the beginning of 2009, thousands of volunteer editors have stopped contributing.

MacTribe, Inc. has announced the launch of its weekly MacTribe The Show podcast series. The first two podcasts, one covering the iPhone and one on the PhotoPlus International Conference, are available on the web.

While it doesn’t quite reach the efficiency of Douglas Adams ‘Babel Fish’, iLingual has some definite pluses. If nothing else, judging by the 1.5 minute video, you may get a smile out of the people you use it on.

n.Fluent is a real-time translation tool developed by IBM, and used internally, to translate text in web pages, electronic documents, and Sametime instant message chats. There is even a BlackBerry mobile translation application.

This Atom-powered netbook from Lenovo has some major hardware upgrades from its predecessor the S10e but the biggest change may be the move to Win7. This article details the changes and how the new netbook stacks up against the competition.

The first batch of Nook e-readers from Barnes & Noble will be delayed. It now appears the devices won’t ship until after the holiday shopping season.

SuperCollider, a free program, takes short code strings and turns them into “music”. The result is an album of 22 Tweetable songs.

Police in some areas are now using Twitter to keep people informed as to potential problems, arrests, or just letting people know the police are on patrol.

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, has voiced his dislike of Google. Now he’s talking about removing his company’s news articles from Google and moving them to Microsoft’s search engine, for a fee.

The analog stick on the PSP isn’t exactly the most reliable design, it’s prone to drifting and breaking. The Macrofire utility can correct that drift and create user-programmable button-macros. Read on to find out how Macrofire worked for Editor-at-Large James Booth

Read this Computing Unplugged article.