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Google search box now translates single words

google translates in search bar
Google has added a simple language translation option to the normal search bar. Simply type "translate" followed by the word and the language you want to see.

For example "translate download into French" or "translate computer into Spanish." The tool currently works with nine languages including French, Spanish, Italian, German and even Hindi.

This is not a substitute for Google Translator. The tool will only translate one word at a time. If you run into a foreign word you can simply type translate and the word to get a result in English.

It's pretty simple and could come in handy once in awhile. You can at least learn to say hello in all nine languages while you are bored at work some day.

[Via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, Googleholic, web 2.0

Googleholic for August 8, 2008

Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google.

In this edition:

  • Olympic madness
  • Google Translate comes to the iPhone
  • New Google Earth API resources
  • Directly link to Google Mapplets
  • Get your Picasa prints at Walgreens

Read more →

Filed under: Google, Googleholic

Googleholic for May 20, 2008

Googleholic for May 20, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
  • Google gets a new office in Taipei
  • Third party advertising tags on Google
  • Google China mourns to commemorate earthquake victims
  • FeedFlare now available for Blogger comments

Read more →

Filed under: Internet, Google, Googleholic, web 2.0

Googleholic for May 16, 2008

Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:

  • A Googlepedia for web developers
  • App Engine launcher for Mac OS X
  • YouTube Insight now offers viewer demographics
  • Laser Google logo
  • The Rolling Stones respond to YouTubers questions

Read more →

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Microsoft, Beta

Microsoft launchs Windows Live Translator beta

Windows Live Translator
The arms race between Microsoft and Google has just gone up another notch with the release of Windows Live Translator. Much like Google's Translate Tool, Windows Live Translator lets you enter a block of text for translation from one language or another, or you can enter a URL to have an entire web page translated. Also like Google, Microsoft's web-based translation tool is powered by Systran.

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
You have a variety of languages to choose from, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. But as with any machine based translation, don't expect Windows Live Translator to give you a perfect translation. But it should give you a good idea of how much that Japan-only notebook computer you've had your eye on really costs.

[via Google Operating System]

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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