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Microsoft launchs Windows Live Translator beta
But the interface is quite different. Enter a URL in Google Translate, choose your language options, and you essentially see a full screen version of the website with the text replaced by a computer's best guess of what each word and phrase means. Windows Live Translator doesn't have a full screen option, but gives you a choice of views:
- See each page side by side
- See one page on top of the other
- See the original page, with each line translated as you hover your mouse over it
- See a translated page with the original text of each line displayed as you hover your mouse over it
[via Google Operating System]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Ednonymous said 3:24PM on 9-09-2007
GEEEEEZZZ!
I guess those idiots in Redmond have never heard of Babelfish?
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omicron said 4:39PM on 9-09-2007
I guess those idiots at Google never heard of AltaVista or Lycos either. Since when did it become stupid to release a competing product?
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Richard Michie said 7:56AM on 9-11-2007
My own website offers the same service form Systran but you can add translation to your site too. With just a bit of HTML code you site becomes instantly multilingual.
You can get the code here http://www.appliedlanguage.com/trans/free_quick.aspx
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