newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6370 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 1 of 8 10 October 2010 at 5:32am | IP Logged |
I can't get Google word translator to work. I hover the pointer over a word and nothing happens. Anyone know what I could be doing wrong?
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5311 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 2 of 8 10 October 2010 at 8:30am | IP Logged |
I doesn't work on my machine either. I guess you'll have to wait until they fix this in the next version of the Google Toolbar. If you use Firefox, I can highly recommend the free Globefish add-on. It displays the translation for any number of highlighted words when you press F8.
It also has a customizable "Compare how often phrases appear on the web" feature that is very useful, if want to find out which of two possible translations is more frequent.
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6370 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 8 10 October 2010 at 11:03am | IP Logged |
I installed it and it seems very nice. Thanks!
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carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5977 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian
| Message 4 of 8 11 October 2010 at 3:36pm | IP Logged |
Make sure you're logged in to your Google account. Logging out of Gmail usually causes GT to stop working for me, even if I had logged into a Google account separately.
Edited by carlonove on 11 October 2010 at 3:42pm
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5857 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 5 of 8 11 October 2010 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for that link. It's great. I like it better than the Google pop-up translations. Much less obtrusive.
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carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5977 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian
| Message 6 of 8 12 October 2010 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
Agreed with Tommus. Also, with my internet connection at least, it's a lot faster than GT's program (nearly instantaneous). I wish they'd develop a similar program that we could use in programs outside of a web browser (Word, Adobe, etc).
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5857 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 7 of 8 12 October 2010 at 4:40am | IP Logged |
carlonove wrote:
I wish they'd develop a similar program that we could use in programs outside of a web browser (Word, Adobe, etc). |
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A quick look with Google gave quite a few hits. Here is one that might work for you.
http://translateclient.com/
EDIT: Just a caution, I just now tried to find a review of this software and couldn't find a reasonable one. There seem to be some people suspicious of it. So be careful.
Edited by tommus on 12 October 2010 at 4:54am
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carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5977 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian
| Message 8 of 8 15 October 2010 at 5:46am | IP Logged |
Tommus, the "Client for Google" program is exactly what I've been looking for, thanks for the link.
Edited by carlonove on 15 October 2010 at 5:56am
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