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Compare Android Phones via Droidthing

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:08:10 +0000

Android phones are some of the trendiest gadgets in the market. There are lots of Android phones produced by different companies and if you go out to buy one, you won’t be sure, which one to buy. You’ll be looking for something which is the optimum choice in regards to price, features and overall quality. Droidthing lets you compare every Android phone and tablet released or available in the market. It is a database of all android phones and their features so that people could find the perfect device for them. You can compare Android phones with Droidthing based on a number of features.

While comparing android phones with Droidthing, you can filter the devices based on their features, availablity and price. You can compare the devices on account of any number of parameters like Camera, Price, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth etc.

Once you set the parameters, all the phones that match the features are displayed. You can remove the tickmark on a phone to remove it from the comparison process.When you are done selecting the devices, click on “Compare now” to get a side by side comparison of the selected devices. It takes a while to assess the information and then displays them in a frame which is very easy to browse. Here’s a video that’ll help you understand more.

You can also look for the features on a device by directly searching for the phone. From the search box, type the name of any android powered phone and you’ll get to learn all of its features. So compare Android phones with Droidthing before you buy your new Android powered phone.

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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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Windows Vista Sidebar Tricks

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:34:06 +0000

The sidebar is one of those killer features of Windows Vista which many people crave for. Here are some cool Windows Vista Sidebar Tricks.

1. You can Tab the one by one through the gadgets by repeated pressing of Windows key + G. Once a gadget is highlighted, you can manipulate it.

2. “Search All Gadgets” lets you bump on the gadget that you were really looking for. Pressing the Windows key lets you see only the recently installed gadgets.

3. You can restore the Gadgets in the sidebar from its Properties. Right click the sidebar and select Properties. Select maintenance and then click Restore Gadgets installed with Windows Button.

4. You can open multiple copies of the same gadget with this Windows Vista Sidebar trick. This can be done by double clicking the gadget icon more than once. If you want to have information regarding two different places, this can be useful.

5. You can also drag the Gadget to anywhere in the screen. Like for example you can have the clock at the centre of your screen dragging it all the way from the sidebar.

6. To keep Windows sidebar on the top of other windows, right click windows sidebar icon from the taskbar and select properties from the menu. Now check the option saying Sidebar always on the top of other Windows.

7. If you are using multiple monitors, Windows sidebar can be displayed on any one of them. Open up the properties of the Windows Sidebar and next to Display Sidebar on Monitor select the monitor number.

These Windows Vista sidebar tricks might be helpful to you. Hey Windows XP users! You can also enjoy a Vista like sidebar on Windows XP. gHacks explains a great way to do this. You can see how Windows Vista Sidebar can be used in Windows XP.

Anyway try out these Windows Vista sidebar tricks and discover some more for yourself.

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