Having a translator at hand can be quite useful when you are browsing the Internet. With users from different social background and countries coming together, there is always the chance that you stumble upon text written in languages that you do not understand. Often your only option to make sense of the text is to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

While Google Translate is probably the most popular online translation service, there are others that may be less popular but are often equally good when it comes to translating contents into other languages. Microsoft’s Translation service is without doubt not as popular as Google’s service. The service is available over at Microsoft Translator. It works [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Tools

One of the features of the Google Chrome web browser that I really like is the option to translate foreign web pages automatically using Google’s Translate service. Firefox users can either use an Internet translation service manually or install an extension to add a similar functionality to the browser. One of the extensions is Translate [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I have been using Google’s new social networking site Google Plus ever since I received my invitation. To be honest, I have been spending more site on the site than I have on Facebook or Twitter combined. That’s still not much compared to social networking geeks who spend hours on those sites. Still, I use [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google some time ago retired the Google Dictionary web service. Well, that’s not entirely correct. What Google retired was the frontend of that service on the web. The definitions are still available, but can only be displayed in Google Search. Users need to use the advanced search parameter define followed by the phrase that they [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Automatic translations can help when people need to communicate with each other without speaking the other’s language properly. Clownfish is a third party software that integrates with the popular communication software Skype. The software works automatically once installed and connected to Skype (a prompt to allow access to Skype is displayed in Skype once Skype [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Facebook is a global village. It is quite possible to have friends from different countries who sometimes post status updates in their native language. That’s a problem if you are not understanding the language but want to know what the status update is about. It is possible to copy and paste those status updates to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Firefox

When it comes to online translations, it is Google Translate that gets the most attention from Internet users. The popular service is not only accessible through the official website, but thanks to its API also through third party tools like browser add-ons or desktop applications. The translation is the only constant when it comes to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google

Google Translate is a solid translation service that is available on the Internet. Almost every popular web browser has a Google Translate extension or plugin to make it more comfortable to users to translate text on the web. But those only provide the functionality on the web, not for desktop documents or other text on [...]

Categories: Software, Windows