Be social with FreeTranslation.com

7/21/2009 06:10:00 AM

Posted by Helen Liley, eBusiness Manager

Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube have experienced rapid growth recently in terms of popularity and Internet traffic world wide.

If people don't speak the same languages within these communities, then FreeTranslation.com is perfect for offering a gist understanding of online conversations.
Simply copy and paste messages into our Free Text Translation box, select your languages and translate. Plus, we have even more languages available now.

For Facebook users, our Facebook Application gives you the ability to instantly translate your online conversations between you and your Facebook Friends, as well as translate your Wall posts.

FreeTranslation.com has become even more social with a Facebook Group and we're now on Twitter.

Keep up to date with the latest news, and give us your feedback

Follow us on Twitter.
Join our group in Facebook.

Don't forget with Chat Translator, you can translate your online instant messages so you can chat online and be social with friends in different languages.

New Translation Tools, Widgets and Gadgets

3/20/2009 08:54:00 AM

Posted by Helen Liley, eBusiness Manager

We’re constantly adding new translation tools to FreeTranslation.com. This week, we have added lots of new tools to our Shop page, plus you can now change your view of this page to only show you our premium products, tools for websites, document translation and other categories of translation tools.

Here’s some more details about our new tools.

Free Text Translator
Our Free Text Translator is a tool you add to your own website and lets your website visitors translate anything they wish directly from your web page. All they have to do is type or paste text into the translation box we provide, and then translate into 10 languages.

Translation Accelerator
We know that many of you want to translate web pages or snippets of text while surfing the Internet. Our Translation Accelerator for Internet Explorer and Firefox mean you can do just that! We have individual accelerators for 11 languages, and each of them work with Internet Explorer 8 and, as a plug-in, with Firefox.

Widgets and Gadgets
If you use iGoogle, Netvibes, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Mac OSX you can now use our Widgets and Gadgets to translate with FreeTranslation.com. Simply get the gadget which is right for you and get translating!

New Facebook application
Our Facebook application has got an over-haul. With our new application, you can translate messages and text, and now you can post the
translation to your Wall. We’ve also introduced a live chat application so you can chat and translate the conversation between you and your Facebook Friends.

Our Official FreeTranslation.com Facebook Group is also still growing – join us now and invite your Friends too.

Don’t forget about our tools which give you more translation power directly from your desktop.

SDL Desktop Translator translates whole documents, emails and text all from within Microsoft Word and Outlook.
SDL Chat Translator translates AOL AIM online conversations between you and your buddy.
SDL Clipboard Translator translates effortlessly the contents of your clipboard.
Join our Platinum Club to get more accurate translations and be able to email the translated text.

New SDL Chat Translator launched

3/03/2009 12:05:00 PM

Posted by Helen Liley, eBusiness Manager

We have just launched our new version of SDL Chat Translator for AOL Instant Messenger 6.8. This integrates fully into the AOL Instant Messenger chat tool and provides real time, instant translations as you chat to your buddy online. Chat Translator also translates conversations from your buddy back into your language instantly and displays both languages onscreen at the same time so you can see the full chat.

Chat Translator works with AIM 6.8 which is the latest version of AIM released by AOL and enables you to chat to your buddy in your own language, and instantly translates the conversation into the chosen language of your buddy.
Similarly, it also translates the conversation from your buddy back into your language.

You can translate English into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as all of these languages translated back into English from within the chat conversation.

We’re also curious about regional versions of chat abbreviations which are commonly used in online chatting, text messaging and emailing. We know that these are used world-wide and there are different ones for different languages and countries.

So, in English, ‘LOL’ means ‘Laugh Out Loud’ and ‘ROTFL’ is ‘Roll On The Floor Laughing’, but 'BTW' (By The Way), what are the ones you use each and every day?

Post your favourite ones to our Blog by hitting the ‘Comment’ link, but don’t forget to say what language they are for, and what they mean. We’ll post them onto the Blog for everyone to see.

Or, let us have your abbreviations by joining our Official FreeTranslation.com Facebook Group. You can also tell us what other tools or services you’d like to see from FreeTranslation.com.