January 9, 2012
Google has just released an update to their extensive Google Translate app, making it finally native to the iPad. If you’ve used the iPhone version of the app, you’re not going to be blown away by the changes, but the iPad is a great place to have a free translation app, especially one that can translate to and from 63 different languages.
January 14, 2011
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Translations used to be hard. Whenever someone talked to you in another language when, say, you traveled to another country, you were pretty much out of luck if you didn’t spend time learning it prior to going or if you didn’t have a translator on hand. Translation books and even phone applications can only carry [...]
January 7, 2011
With certain languages Google Translate is appallingly bad. Ever tried to translate from Arabic into English? You’ll be hard pressed to ever understand what the English translation says let alone the Arabic original. I can imagine that the case is the same for quite a few other languages. That said, there are some languages, such [...]
November 29, 2010
If you constantly need to translate words by copying and pasting them onto Google Translate or another translation service, you should check out TranslateIt!, available for Windows and Mac, which presents a smart (and faster!) solution for bilingual users wanting to learn new words on the fly. This week, we’re giving away 10 one-year licenses [...]
November 10, 2010
In a world that seems to be getting smaller every day, with bloggers and friends making connections all across the world – there are times when language becomes a limiting factor. I once had a reader from France write in with words of appreciation for a blog article I’d written at a UFO website – [...]
September 27, 2010
Whilst it is true that the Internet is a huge repository of information, there is still the (small) matter of the language barrier for most people to overcome. Luckily, there is the Google Translate platform, which many developers use as a basis to provide real-time automated text translation tools. This post looks at various tools (desktop, [...]
April 26, 2010
The whole world speaks on Twitter, and today it has become a language of its own. As you are reading this in English, it’s a high probability that you tweet in the language that has become the common tongue for the world. But as Twitter grows in popularity in remote corners of the world, so [...]
February 19, 2010
Once upon a time, online translation services were a seldom seen wonder. Now, the internet is bulking with them. Suddenly you need to make a choice; whether to go with Babel Fish, WordLingo, Google Translate, or yet another new service. Great, if not for the fact that choice always creates the possibility of error. And [...]
December 13, 2009
Japanese calligraphy is an artistic writing style of the Japanese language. Its Chinese origins can be traced back to the twenty-eighth century BCE. Calligraphy found its way into Japanese culture in 600 CE and is known as the karayo tradition. For Westerners, calligraphy is forever fascinating. However, it takes years to learn how to properly [...]
December 6, 2009
Internet World Stats show that English web surfers represent less than 28% of the Internet population. In other words, if your blog or website is English-only, it is largely useless to 72% of Internet users. True, your readers can take the effort of using a translation service themselves, but wouldn’t it be friendlier to make [...]
