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Title: instant on-demand translation needed
Post by: kalos on November 02, 2007, 03:49 AM: hello

I come accross text in various languages in webpages, text documents, etc

I really want to be able to get an instant translation of a word as I read the text, instead of having to open a translation webpage or program and search there

I was thinking something like to be able to highlight some text and with a keyboard shortcut or a context menu entry to display the translation in a pop up near the highlighted text

has anyone come across such tool?

thanks
Title: Re: instant on-demand translation needed
Post by: sri on November 02, 2007, 04:01 AM: http://www.babylon.com/
Title: Re: instant on-demand translation needed
Post by: kalos on November 02, 2007, 05:29 AM: thanks!

this is very nice, exactly what I was looking for

the only problem is that it's not freeware :( and it seems to consume lots of sys resources
Title: Re: instant on-demand translation needed
Post by: Grorgy on November 02, 2007, 06:09 AM: http://www.lingoes.net/ these people offer a free translator program, worth a try, i dont know how good it is but it seems to work as far as i can tell.
Title: Re: instant on-demand translation needed
Post by: kalos on November 02, 2007, 06:24 AM: thanks

there is also http://wordweb.info/free/ JFYI
Title: Re: instant on-demand translation needed
Post by: kalos on November 02, 2007, 06:28 AM: babylon uses 3k memory, wordweb 5k and lingoes 1k

I liked lingoes very much, but I can't manage to make the "cursor translation mode" to work (to trigger translate with a mouse click)

also, I doesn't have all the languages I need and it's not that configurable :(
Title: Re: instant on-demand translation needed
Post by: BigJim on November 02, 2007, 08:55 AM: I've used WordWeb Pro 5 for a year or more. It's great :Thmbsup: but I don't see how it figures into the translation question.