Web Utilities
Google Translate has got a new tool, called “Website translator gadget”. Web developers can use this tool to offer their web contents to their readers in 51 different languages. Its definitely a quicker and cheaper to get your web contents translated, though the translations still have to be improved. I tried translating my blog Kabatology with this gadget from English to Italian but the outcome was full with grammatical mistakes and sometimes incomprehensive.
To get this tool on your website hit the Website translator gadget link, select your website or web page original language, choose the Translation languages, hit the “Preview and Try” button to get a preview. Copy and paste the generated snippet of code into your website/webpage
WordPress Users: WordPress can grab and drop their generated code somewhere into the Header.php file above the </head> tag
via [The Official Google Blog]
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The not yet official OCR (Optical character recognition) feature in Google Docs can carry-out image to text conversions on high resolution files. All you have to do is upload your scanned images that have to be in JPG, GIF, or PNG formats to the OCR feature so that it can be OCR’ed. This feature still under experimentation and is not yet part of the Google Docs UI. What next; Its time to test and rehearse.
via [Digital Inspiration]
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“I already have the Stumble toolbar installed. Just give me a button to send to Su.pr so I can submit it to Twitter without another bookmarklet”. That’s exactly what a StumbleUpon user asked for a while ago in the Su.pr Suggestions Feedback Forum. Now the StumbleUpon team has made it possible to post a web page directly from the StumbleUpon Toolbar to Twitter and Facebook via Su.pr – the new service by StumbleUpon that permits you to shorten a URL and share it across Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. More»
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Google has released a plug-in for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 called Google Chrome Frame that brings Google Chrome’s rendering engine inside IE. This open source plug-in practically turns IE into Chrome, so users of Internet Explorer can as well try web applications like Google Wave from their favorite web browser. Google Chrome Frame compensates the absence of features like HTML5 and open web technologies that are available in modern browser. Developers can enable Chrome plug-in for IE by adding this single meta tag in their HTML code:
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For Mac, Linux and Windows: Spon.gy is a free web-application that helps you to download your Facebook albums in just two steps; login and download. Spon.gy downloads all “Photos Tagged of You” with the option to include photos in your own albums. You don’t have to install Spon.gy and its accessible from every computer with a web browser and an internet connection.
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