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How to easily translate text on tooltip via Google Translator

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:26:10 +0000

Google Translator is a very powerful translation tool and people who need to deal with multiple languages use it very often. Google Translator can help you with a whole page or just words and sentences as well. Even if you can speak and write a foreign language, you may sometimes come across words or phrases that might be difficult to understand. Wouldn’t it be handy if you could get to translate any piece of text on a webpage on the fly without moving over to Google Translator? A Greasemonkey script namely Google Translator Tooltip can be of help. Google Translator Tooltip is a tool that brings the power of Google Translator right on your tooltip.

Install Greasemonkey addon on your computer if you already don’t have it. Now go to Google Translator Tooltip page on userscripts and install the script by clicking the install button. The Google Translator tooltip is now ready to work. Open any new webpage and select some text that you’d like to translate. After selecting, you will see a small magnifying glass icon underneath it. Clicking on the icon will bring up a plus(+) icon and two arrow icons >>. Click on the arrow icons and you will get the settings for the languages you want translate to and from. You can use the “Detect Language” option in the “from” dropdown and only choose the language you want to get a text translated to. You can also select Alt Click or Ctrl Click option instead of a single mouse click.

If you just select a single word, this tool will also show you if the word is a noun, adverb, adjective, pronoun etc. Besides that you also get options to search for the word or phrase in Google, Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary, Youtube, IMDB, Google Images, The Free Dictinoary etc.

Google Translator Tooltip can be very handy for translating words or even phrases on Tooltip with Google Translator’s translation engine.

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Google’s Messages for Japan

admin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:25:12 +0000

The devastating earthquake that hit Japan about a month ago is one of the most shattering events of this century. People from all over the world prayed for Japan wishing for mitigation of pain and turmoil. If you want to send a message to the victims of the earthquake, use Google’s “Messages for Japan“.

Google has introduced a site “Messages for Japan” where it allows people to send their messages and prayers to Japan. Type your message in your language and it will automatically get translated into Japanese via Google Translator. You can read message sent by others or see the message density on Maps(rendered via Google Maps).

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How to subscribe to translated feeds using Yahoo Pipes and Google Translator

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:00:52 +0000

Yahoo Pipes is a very advanced online tool and people use it for various purposes; the main being aggregation of diverse feeds. Yahoo Pipes can be used for various purposes like easily searcing for someone on all social networks, customized search engine results and more. Yahoo Pipes has a tool for using Babelfish translation by default. But Babelfish’s translation algorithm isn’t as advanced as that of Google Translator’s. Here’s a trick using which you can translate a feed using Yahoo Pipes and Google Translator.

Yahoo Pipes works like a simple programming language. If you have a basic idea of using it, you can create a pipe for yourself. But you can use one already created by Bertrand. This pipe created by Bertrand can translate a RSS feed to all the languages that are available in Google Translator. Enter the RSS feed URL in the URL section; the language code for the original language (eg. En for English, De for Deutsch etc.) and also the language code for the language to which you want to RSS feed to get translated. Now click on “Run Pipe” and you’ll instantly see the feed translated to your language.

This pipe actually uses another Yahoo Pipe that simply translates a text into a desired language using Google Translator. You can go ahead and click on the “Get as RSS” button to directly subscribe to the translated feed.

Thus, with this trick you can subscribe to the translated version of any feed using Yahoo pipes and Google Translator

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Make a Google Translator beat box

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:26:11 +0000

Google Translator is by far the most widely used translation engine on the internet. Google Translator has added a lot of features since its release making it all the more desirable and user friendly; it has also been integrated into many other applications like Gmail. Google Translator also allows you to listen to your translation as speech. Here’s a trick that shows how you can have a beat box music from Google Translator using its Text-to-Speech feature.

Google Translator’s text to speech feature is wisely devised for different languages. It differs with the way people of different languages speak in their own tones. Open up Google Translator and set the language translation from German to German. Now paste this into the box.

“pvpv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk ddddd pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkkddddd psch”

Now press the listen button and see how easily you’ve created a beat box. You can also modify this by playing around with the letters; just make sure that no vowels appear anywhere. Put the non vowels p, v, z etc. together and use “d”s for a drum-like sound. But remember, the language must be set to German; it won’t work if the language is set to English. It works with French or Spanish too but sounds a bit like a low hum. So set the language to German to get a better beat box effect.

This virtual beat box on Google Translator sounds really cool, like a DJ doing some mixing.

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Langover for multilingual work environements

admin — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:25:20 +0000

Do you need to frequently switch between two or more languages while you type? If yes then you must have come across situations when you tried to type in one language and the result appeared in the other. Its because you forgot the change the keyboard layout or say forgot to hold Alt + Shift. If you have to work in a multilingual environment and need to type in alternate languages frequently Langover 5.0 can be your ideal choice. Langover is a freeware that lets you convert your text between different languages with ease.

Langover 5 supports almost all languages. You can use Langover for various purposes like for switching between languages, changing case, reverse a text and more. Langover can save you a lot of time if you by mistake typed a long text in the alternate language. Like for example, if you are working in a multilingual environment and you typed something in your text editor in the wrong language, you can just select the text and press F10 and Langover will bring the text to its original form. You can also use it to change case across all text editors. Select your text and press Shift + F10 and Langover will convert it to UPPERCASE or vice versa.

Langover’s shortcut key F6 can be used to reverse a text. It has two options, you can either reverse a whole sentence or just words.

Langover’s Search shortcut Ctrl+G will do Google search for any keyword that you select. The translation tool is also very handy. Like if you are typing your mail in one language and need to translate it to another, Just select it and press Ctrl+T and you can have your mail translated via Google Translator.

You can change the language settings for Langover from the settings panel. You can also change the shortcut keys for translation, reversing text, changing case etc. You need to have .NET installed on your computer for Langover to run.

Langover can be a great choice if you are in a multilingual environment for work and need to switch between different languages while at work.

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Translation gadgets for your site

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:34:14 +0000

A handy piece of information on the internet sometimes isn’t as easy to understand as always. Most of the times, its because of the lack of your understanding of the language. Well if you are a blogger or an article writer you understand the importance of valued readers and you wouldn’t want any of them to bounce off just because they don’t understand the language your article is written in. Many readers read your content by translating RSS feeds or the translating the posts directly. But the best option is to add a translation gadget to your site.

Some bloggers are happy to add the same page to their site translated in multiple languages to enhance the readability. But some SEO gurus suggest that having the same article on a site in many different languages would just increase the volume of the pages and sometimes may alarmingly demean the performance of sites in search engines as major search engines these days understand the popular languages. So using a translation gadget that can generate a translated copy your article on the fly would be the best idea.

There are many online services like Google Translator, Babelfish, IM translator etc. that offer advanced online translation. Thanks to the gadgets offered by them that can easily be integrated to your site and used with ease.

Google Translator Gadget: Google Translator gadget uses the famous Google Translation algorithm to translate your site to any preferred language. Just go to Tools and Resources page of Google translator and copy the code snippet. But before that select the original language of your page, and choose if you want to add all language options or only a few of them in your gadget. Finally paste it somewhere in your site from the code view and see how well it works. The best thing about this gadget is that, you can have the translated version of the webpage within the same window and you can revert to the original version any time. The code looks like this:

Babelfish Translator Gadget: Babelfish, the translation service from yahoo also lets you add a dedicated translation gadget to your site. Go to Babelfish and choose the type of widget from the two. Finally click “I want this one” button and you’ll be provided with a code that looks like this:

Paste it to your site and it will start working. But unlike Google translator gadget, it can also translate a given word or sentence other than the whole page. To translate the page, you’ll need to paste the URL of the page. So, write a short message notifying your readers about this. The translated version of the page opens up in a new window.

Ultimate Website Translator: This gadget is also very easy to embed to your site. Just visti this page and customize your settings for the widget. You can set the width, heigh and border colors of the widget. This gadget is also available under Google gadgets. A sample of the code is as follows:

So, with these handy tools, you can enable your readers to easily translate your page and help them grab what they want from your site. Readers who have subscribed to your feeds by email can get the emails translated to their language on the fly with the help of Gmail’s translation feature.

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Get mails translated to your language

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:02:04 +0000

Sometimes you may get emails in other languages like Czech, Chinese etc. You think such messages to be spam and neglect them. But sometimes, you may also get emails of your interest in your Inbox that are not in your native language. Now if you wish to read such emails, you won’t have to go to Google Translator or Babelfish. Google Labs now has a new plugin that lets you get your emails translated without having to leave your Gmail.
To enable this gadget, go to Gmail Settings from where you can customize and add gadgets to your Gmail account. Now enable the “Message Translation” gadget and save the changes. This gadget automatically detects the language of the email and translates it to your default language. To translate an email, just click on Translate Message to: English (if your default language is English) at the beginning of your email. The cool thing about this translation gadget is that you won’t have to leave Gmail as the translation is carried on inline. If you want to change the default language, click on Change Language. This will take you to the General Settings page where you can change the default language.

You can also print the translated version of the email. To do this, click on the Reply dropdown and select “Translate and Print”. This will open up a new tab with the translated email and also gives an option to print it. You can also translate the whole conversation including the messages sent by you. For this, click on “Translate conversation” at the right hand side. This will translate the whole conversation including the messages sent by you. This Gmail gadget for translating mails can be immensely helpful at times.

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Translate your Tweets with Twitrans

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:23:27 +0000

If you belong English speaking community and you aren’t familiar with other languages, you’d probably post your tweets in English . But if you want to post them in other languages that you don’t understand, use Twitrans for translating your tweets.

Twitrans, a recently launched service lets users to quickly translate their Tweets in a variety of languages. The translation is done by humans using the one-hour translation platform so the translation results are better than the one you’d get from automated translation services like BabelFish or Google Translator.

This service is available for many of the languages widely spoken all over the world. The languages are: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.

You don’t need to sign up for using the service. All you need to do is send the tweet to twitrans starting your message with @twitrans. Suppose you want to translate the message “My projects are finally over.” from English to French, you should post a tweet like this.

@twitrans en2fr My projects are finally over.

Here en2fr prompts the translators to translate the message from English to French. The language shortcuts for supporting languages are as follows:

Arabic-ar
Chinese-zh
Dutch-nl
English-en
French-fr
German-de
Greek-el
Hebrew-he
Hindi-hi
Italian-it
Japanese-jp
Portuguese-pt
Russian-ru
Spanish-es

Once you send the tweets as above, they will send you a message saying that the human translation has started and you’ll receive the translation shortly. Then after sometime, within an hour you’ll receive the translated tweet. But the message is not directly sent to us but is posted as updates in their Twitter profile i.e. twitter.com/twitrans. This is a bit of a glitch.

So, if you want to get your tweets translated by humans in other languages, Twitrans will be a nice option.

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Translate RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:34:05 +0000

People who are just familiar with English are unaware of the other side of the internet, the content over world wide web in languages other than English. And of the total searches done over the web only 36 percent is done in English. So, there are content on the web which are not in English but might be very useful for many people.

For this very purpose i.e. to make the content in all languages accessible to all people, there are services like Google Translator, BabelFish etc. But if you are used to reading to feeds rather than visiting your favorite blogs or websites, then you might have a problem. So here comes Yahoo Pipes, that will automatically translate your feeds and let you read it in your preferred language without any hassle. Just a few drag and drops and Yahoo Pipes will translate those RSS feeds for you.

Yahoo pipes is one of the most advanced and sturdy feed aggregators. You can use it for various purposes from getting updated on the prices of items from Google Products to making analytical widgets for your blog. After you login to Yahoo pipes with your Yahoo ID, you can start creating your feeds or other web based applications via a very powerful interface. You can translate your feeds with Babelfish’s translation service.

Inside Yahoo Pipes interface, You will see a lot of buttons in the navigation panel. From there click the first button Sources and then from the dropdown drag and drop Fetch Feed into the main window. After that enter the URL of the feed into it. Then click the lowermost button in that navigation bar called Deprecated and select BabelFish and drop it to the main window. Then select the required language combination like, English to French, English to German, Dutch to English, Japanese to English etc. Then click on the circle at the bottom of Fetch feed box and start dragging the pipe until it joins with the BabelFish box. Then from BabelFish box drag the pipe to the Pipe Output. Finally save your pipe. Then Run your pipe by clicking Run Pipe link and see your feed translated.

So get your RSS feeds translated automatically with Yahoo Pipes and save your time and effort.

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