Tag: LANGUAGES

The latest update to location-based social networking app Foursquare is a big one for international users. Foursquare now comes in five more languages: French, Italian, Spanish, German and Japanese. Even the badges have been translated! This is a big deal for Foursquare's business, because they're now getting checkins from users in nearly 200 different countries, and businesses in those countries ...

Google released a Google Translate Web app for iPhone users back in 2008, but now the Apple crowd has a native Google Translate iPhone app. Available in the App Store now, the free Google Translate app includes speak-to-translate for 15 languages, a full screen mode, and the ability to listen to translations in 23 languages. The iPhone app doesn't have Android's on-the-fly "conversation mode," ...

Last year, Google showed off an upcoming Google Translate feature called Conversation Mode, which translates speech in real time, allowing two people who don't share a language to carry on a conversation. Conversation Mode has reached alpha, and it's part of the latest update to Google Translate for Android. So far, Conversation Mode only works with English and Spanish, but compatibility with ...

Google Translate is a great tool when you're reading webpages in another language, but it's not much help when you're having a conversation. Well, that might change soon, as Google recently demoed a live version of Translate for conversations. That's right: you speak it, and Google translates it on the fly and reads it back in your target language. Google has started testing this new ...

Non-capitalized website devcheatsheet is a pretty good place to rummage around if you're on the lookout for a free "cheat sheet" for a programming language, markup language, or a piece of software. Some of the "cheat sheets" linked by the site are more "cheat booklets" than "sheets", such as this Essential Ruby RefCard, which stretches on for six pages (!). DevCheatSheet (That's how I decided to ...

Dang, I love augmented reality apps. The idea of point your phone's camera at anything and getting information about it just feels like the future to me. Well, Google just took us one step closer to that future, with a new version of Google Goggles that they demoed at the Mobile World Congress. The software will eventually be able to recognize text in photos (and translate it) in over 50 ...

As Twitter's worldwide growth continues, non-English-speakers are adopting it in larger numbers. And when we don't all speak the same language, it might sometimes be necessary to translate a tweet into something other than your native tongue. Twinslator makes that very easy, by providing what's essentially a mashup of Twitter and Google Translate. It's a translator you can tweet from. If you ...

The biggest players in the online translation game are Yahoo! Babelfish and Google Translate. They both have their unique charms, but a site called Frengly might offer a little competition. Its selection of languages isn't quite as extensive as Google's -- you won't find Hindi, Latvian or Catalan, for example -- but it does offer more languages and more combinations than Babelfish. Frengly's ...

There's a nondescript little link on the Google front page that might have escaped your notice, even if you search Google every day. If you've ever clicked "language tools," though, you know how many languages Google supports. The relevant one for our Download Like a Pirate Day here at Download Squad is, of course, "pirate." When you set Google's language to pirate, you can "searrrch," look at ...

Been busy spending the past week telling the press about your extramarital affairs, history of drug use, and misuse of campaign funds? Here are a few stories you might have been too busy to read. Adobe Photoshop Express Beta launches After months of hype, the big day finally arrived. Adobe launched a free, online version of Photoshop, the industry standard in image editing. You won't find all the ...

It's been a few months since Google rolled out some major updates to the Gmail interface, including support for colored labels, group chat, graphic emoticons, a new contact manager, and new keyboard shortcuts. Now Google is offering the same features to non-English speakers. The company is rolling out the updated version of Gmail to 37 new languages. There are still a few unsupported languages. ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! This edition covers: Google TV ads to let advertisers bid for shows Blogger is infused with three more languages Accessing Google Docs offline Google TV to let advertisers bid for shows Instead of purchasing airtime based on time slots or demographics, Google Adword's TV ads will let advertisers bid for specific shows. ...

The folks over at Netvibes have been very busy as of late. In the last few weeks they've released 10 new international versions of their "customizable Web 2.0 home page/portal solution" (buzzwords aside, it's a terrific service). If you haven't given it a try yet, perhaps one these new versions will entice you: Greek, Turkish, Quebecer, Ukrainian, Russian, Danish, Canadian, Polish, Brazilian and ...

Every programmer knows what Hello World means because it is the first time they were able to get a particular programming language up and running successfully. Hello World somehow became the universal way to announce to the world that you had cracked the shell of ignorance previously surrounding a particular language, and were able to hack the few lines of code it takes to produce "Hello World" ...

Mac OS X ships with its core applications in dozens of languages, but chances are you're only interested in using one or, if you like to spice things up once in awhile, two. Monolingual is a small app for OS X which removes translations you don't want and frees up a couple hundred megs of hard drive space. It's open-source, too. ...