Text Translator Mac OS X dashboard widget
powered by Google translation engine
NOTE
"Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it."
Features
- Easy to use - one click translation;
- Source text language is auto detected;
- Any two languages from the following list can be translated :
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
- CatalanNew!
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- FilipinoNew!
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- HebrewNew!
- Hindi
- IndonesianNew!
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- LatvianNew!
- LithuanianNew!
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- SerbianNew!
- SlovakNew!
- SlovenianNew!
- Swedish
- UkrainianNew!
- VietnameseNew!
Screenshot
Here is screenshot from Dashcode in real size.
Download
Widget is attached as zip here.
Further To-Do
Feel free to contact me if any question or improvements you see to add to help me do it the best.
My To-Do list:
- add settings on back to save default source and translation languages;
- add auto paste or Hot key to paste from clipboard directly in source language from any application;
- add more translation engines like Promt, Yahoo, etc.;
- port Text Translator to iPhone/iPod touch.
Enjoy and use it in one click!
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