Sometimes I have small problems with translations, it could be some english word I don’t remember (or even don’t know), it could be a text in a languageI don’t speak or even a number of symbols that I can recognize as a language at all. Every time I use an internet-based translation system to deal with the situation, there are few translators I use, but I believe everyone knows “Google Translate” online service. It’s a wonderful system from the Big Brother that makes our life a little bit easier. The only problem for me is that it’s online service.
Imagine the situation: you have new mail, open it and – oops – there is a need to translate something. What will you do? I select the text, cmd+C to copy it, open the Safari browser, cmd+T to get new tab, translate.goo…, down arrow in the drop-down list, enter to select, wait a little, cmd+V to paste the text into the translation text box. Hit “translate”. Voila… It’s too long, don’t you think so?
A lot of people do, that’s why there are lots of desktop translators that integrate into the OS seamlessly, however, they are shareware. And since we have wonderful and absolutely freeware Google.Translate, why don’t we have it in our OS? Well, we do, now we do: “Lingoo”.
Simplest mode with a single translator text field.
Extended translation mode for a bigger amount of text.
Heavy translation mode with both source and destination text fields prepared for multiline text.
This app it intended to be run at login, it has no dock icon and sits quietly in the Menu Bar. There is number of options and two hotkeys: to show the translator and to show the translator with the Clipboard text. “Lingoo” is based on Google.Translate, so everything you can translate with Google can be translated with “Lingoo” as well. Three modes are implemented to satisfy all needs: I prefer the smallest one with no toolbar, but when some big amount of text must be translated – second or third are better.
This app is still in development, need a day or two to complete the task. Some polishing, some icons, you know… But in general it works and I’m sure it will fit my needs. Hope your too. Oh, by the way – it’s freeware.
That’s all, take care!