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Google Translate is user enabled

April 22, 2007 Reluctant Internet, New Technology, Technology, Web Development

Sometimes a company does something very innovative and you think… well, duh, why didn’t anybody else do something like that before.

Google translate does something that will have the same affect. There are many companies that do online, automatic translation of text. It’s been around for years. But since the good old days, when babelfish was the only translation service, the translation has always been quite poor. And even if you didn’t know the language from which you were translating, you new from the resulting translation into your language that it didn’t work well.

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Google personalizes online maps

April 15, 2007 Reluctant Family, Home, Internet, New Technology, Technology, Web Development

Google recently announced a new feature for Google Maps. It’s called “My Maps”, but the name doesn’t really do it justice. This new feature now brings Google Maps a little closer to the functionality available in Google Earth [download]. Don’t get me wrong, Google Earth has so many more amazing features that it blows Maps out of the water, but it’s an installed desktop application.

The huge benefit of Maps is that you don’t need to install an application in order to use it. It works in any modern browser and is lightweight and quick.

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Free Internet Access from Google

April 1, 2007 Reluctant Home, New Technology, Technology

Google TiSP KitToday Google announced an extremely innovative and revolutionary (and FREE) way to access the Internet. It’s called Google TiSP (Google Engineers call it Teaspoon). It leverages existing fiber-optic networks in your municipal sewage system.

Google will even send you a free TiSP kit. Installation appears quite simple. If you run into problems or have additional questions, just check out their FAQ (frequently asked questions).

They’re even working on an Enterprise version of TiSP:

We’re actively developing a higher-performance version of TiSP specifically tailored to small and medium-sized businesses, including 24-hour, on-site technical support in the event of backup problems, brownouts and data wipes.

Note: Be sure to recognize the date on which this post was published.

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VocabGrapher – Cool Google Gadget

January 23, 2007 Reluctant Internet, Technology

So I’m a fan of Google (at least their online tools).  I didn’t enjoy being partnered with them at my last job (they tend to push around the little guy).  But their tools are unmatched and well done.

The other day, I was looking to add new content to my personalized Google homepage when I ran across a gadget called “MapMyWord Dictionary.”  It’s rather cool.  It takes a word and creates a word “map” by linking all related terms into a “brainstorming” type of diagram.  You can easily follow a single word through to something that doesn’t mean anything like your original term.
To try it out, go to VocabGrapher.com.  It’ll even give you pronunciation of many of the words.
If you are a Google Personalized Homepage user and would like to add this gadget to your homepage, go here.

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