Toolbar, now with advanced translation

If you saw this text on a webpage, how would you figure out what it means? ???? ?? ??????? ???? ?????, ??, ????????, ??? ???????? ??-??????. ?????? ???????? ????? ?? ????? ???????? ? ?? ????? ????????? ???????? ????????????? ???-???????.* You would likely need to translate manually via our language tools or in Toolbar . Today we’re excited to announce that translations will be even easier with the newest release of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer . We have been working with the Translate team to make translations a faster and more integrated part of your browsing experience. The Translate feature automatically detects if the language of a webpage you’re on is different from your default language setting and allows you to translate it. With one click, you can now instantly translate the page and all of its text will appear in the new language. Language detection happens only on your computer, so no information is sent to Google until you choose to translate a page. You can find more details about how the feature works in our help center . If you go to another page in the same language, you will continue to see translations rather than have to translate one page at a time. And if the page has dynamic content, like Google Reader , you will get translations in real-time. Finally, if you frequently translate pages in the same language, Toolbar will let you translate that language automatically without any extra clicks in the future. The new Translate feature is available in all international versions of Toolbar, including English, and the translation service supports 41 different languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Download Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer to try it out for yourself. We’ll add this feature to Toolbar for Firefox soon, too. * In case you don’t speak Russian, we translated the paragraph above for you using our translation engine: If you are reading this text, you probably already speak in Russian. However, millions of people do not know Russian and cannot read the millions of Russian-language webpages. Posted by Jerry Tang and Dick Sites, Software Engineers

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HTC Sense interface seen on HTC Dream (video)

Confirming what we already knew about Android, a video has shown HTC’s Sense user interface on an HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) phone. Sense is officially available only on the HTC Hero Android phone at the moment; however, a pesky little thing like sanctioned availability isn’t going to stop phone modifiers from having a little fun

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App Review: The “Oid” NES, SNES, and Genesis suite is almost classic

Retro gaming on Android is something that many might hold dear. It is a welcome dose of nostalgia to play Nintendo games on Android or play Sega Genesis games on Android. And while technology may have made video games far more advanced than most could have imagined, it’s still a blast to fly in Super

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Talking Android at The San Diego GTUG

Post from: Google And Blog Talking Android at The San Diego GTUG I will be speaking on Android at the first San Diego Google Technology User Group (GTUG). The San Diego GUTG will be meeting at GoCipher on 8929C Complex Drive in San Diego, Ca at 6:30PM Wednesday July 1st. Sam Afifi organized this MeetUp and asked me to speak on Android similar to what I did at SMX Advanced as well share what was learned at the recent Google IO . A Google Technology User Group is for people to get together and learn about Google ’s developer technology – basically the viral means of transferring the knowledge gained from those at the Google IO Developer Conference . Currently there are approximately 40 GTUG s almost half of them in the United States including such cities as Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Philadelphia, & Silicon Valley. I have held my latest thoughts on the Android developments of the past week with the HTC Hero being introduced as well the very compelling Android UI HTC Sense with its FLASH support until after this MeetUp. I will then post a cumulative opinion along with some under the radar information on what this will mean for Android and its users this week just after speaking at this GTUG . If in the area I hope to see you at this first ever San Diego Google Technology User Group .

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Celebrating Gay Pride 2009

All around Google, we’re proud of our work, our culture and, most importantly, our people. In the spirit of celebration, this spring and summer Googlers have participated in Pride celebrations in Tel Aviv, New York, Zürich, San Francisco and many other cities around the world. Pride is a time for the LGBT* community along with families, friends and supporters to stand up for equality, and to honor those who paved the way for us to express sexual orientation and gender identity openly. In the U.S., this year’s celebration is historically important: it’s the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, a response to what was then routine police harassment of LGBT people. Some 75 Googlers, family members and friends marched with several hundred members of New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center . Hundreds of Googlers also joined other U.S. celebrations in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and San Francisco. Earlier this month, around 50 Googlers and friends gathered to celebrate at Europride, Europe’s best-known Gay Pride celebration. This year it was in Zürich, Switzerland. After weeks of sunshine, on the morning of the parade it began to storm, but that didn’t deter our intrepid Googlers from being out at 6:30am turning a 28-ton truck into a rainbow-colored nightclub on wheels. Hundreds of nuts, bolts and gallons of helium later, the truck was transformed, the sun came out and we were ready to march through the city streets, cheered on by a crowd of 50,000. Google is a company that supports its LGBT employees, taking a public stand on issues that are important to our community. This is not the first year that Google has supported Pride, and it will certainly not be the last. We hope you enjoy this photo album of our global celebrations. *LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered people and is also intended to include people who identify as queer, asexual or intersexed, amongst others. Posted by Cynthia Yeung, Partner Strategy Team

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T-Mobile myTouch 3G media event on July 8

myTouch 3G Android phone is getting its day in the sun on July 8 when T-Mobile introduce it to the world – in NYC. We’ll be there to bring you live coverage, so stay tune for more info. The myTouch 3G has already taken many forms; HTC Magic and recently, the Google ION special edition. It has a 3.2-inch capacitive display, 3.2-megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G HSDPA and powered by Android OS. Pre-order begins on July 8 for current T-Mobile customers for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Vic Gundotra introducing GD2 and the Google IO 2009 HTC Android-phone Unboxing Google IO 2009 HTC Android-phone HTC Magic Full hands on demo at MWC09 by Eric Lin HTC Magic Hands on at MWC09

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Google heads to grade school: New resources for K-12 teachers and students

We use the Internet all the time: at home, at work (especially at Google!), on the move, and, increasingly, at school. We believe that the Internet and cloud-based tools are a key part of a 21st century classroom, helping students learn and teachers teach in collaborative and innovative ways. Students use Google Docs to work on group projects; classrooms use Google Sites to show off their work; and teachers use Forms in Google Docs for instant grading and Google Calendar for lesson planning. Google Apps Education Edition is helping schools build online communities for students, teachers and parents, and we now have 4 million students using Google Apps Education around the world. This week the Google Apps Education team is launching a few new ways to make it easier for K-12 schools to use Google Apps, and attending the National Education Computing Conference ( NECC ) in Washington D.C. To help address schools’ email security needs, Google Message Security (GMS) will be offered free to current and new eligible primary and secondary schools globally that opt in by July of next year. GMS filters out email messaging threats, and education IT departments can customize the filtering rules and group messaging lists to suit their schools. We’re also launching the Google Apps Education Community site for educators and students to share tips and ideas for using Google Apps in their classrooms, as well as the Search Education Curriculum and a Google Apps Education resource center with more than 20 classroom-ready lesson plans for teachers. We’ll be adding more to these resources going forward. If you’re at NECC this year, come visit the Google team in booth #3148. If not, the teaching and learning continues with some cool presentations and lesson plans on the Google Apps Education Community site, or you can learn more at google.com/a/edu . Posted by Dana Nguyen, Google Apps Education team

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HTC Hero in wild, gets video unboxing

We’re not entirely sure where they acquired it – or perhaps who they had to bribe – but CoolSmartPhone have managed to find an HTC Hero for a few days of play.  Their unboxing video inexplicably starts with a brief wildlife watch, and takes place one-handed in a car, but we’ll cut them some slack; after all, we all know what it’s like to be so excited by a new toy that we can’t wait until we’re home to open it up. Most of the video is a general overview of the device hardware; there’s no SIM in the handset at first, but we’re pleased to see that the Hero will still let you access much of Sense without one.  The new HTC UI looks just as smooth as it did in our hands-on testing . Otherwise the contents of the box seems to be pretty much in line with every other HTC Android device we’ve seen: USB cable for charging and synchronizing, a power adapter and interchangeable power plug section, and stereo headset. We’re expecting our own Hero in soon, so keep asking questions for the official Android Community review! Click here to view the embedded video.

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HTC Hero ROM on HTC Magic [Video]

Hot on the heels of the HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) “Rosie” HTC Sense video demo  comes this, HTC’s second Android device, the Magic, supposedly running  the official firmware from the upcoming HTC Hero .  Unlike the LeakDroid SuperHERO ROM, this Fatal1ty ROM is tipped as being almost unmodified. In fact, all they’ve apparently done is tweaked it just enough to make it run on the Magic.  Because of that it supports Flash, as well as all the HTC widgets expected to be on the production Hero.  There’s also multitouch support, and in the latest version both GPS and the camera are functional. The one significant drawback we’re hearing is that Sense must be completely reloaded whenever the Magic’s home button is pressed, something which as you’d expect slows matters right down.  That could be a memory issue or something else to be addressed by the hacked ROM creators.  Click here to view the embedded video.

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HTC Sense SuperHERO ROM gets video demo

If you fancy a taste of HTC Sense on your G1 or Magic, the regular “Rosie” ROM leaks have already provided a way.  The LeakDroid project has been taking the Haykuro ROMs – which include the new HTC Sense UI – and developing builds for those with earlier devices.  Android HDblog have been playing with the latest so-called SuperHERO ROM, and put together a video demo which you can see below.  They’ve loaded it up on the HTC Dream (aka the T-Mobile G1) and given their opinion of the changes. Unsurprisingly the multitouch browser support, new PMP functionality and social networking integration all get high praise.  Less impressive are the slow performance and occasional crashes, together with the absence of screen-rotation support (that currently leads to more crashing).  Still, it’s free to try and with the news that official “with Google” branded devices are unlikely to see HTC Sense officially  these hack projects might be your best bet. Click here to view the embedded video.

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