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20Jun/090

Google’s Language Translator Works Awesome

Want to know how to greet your Chinese friend in his language. The new Google translate offers you the translation of what u type in "han" and it gives back the English version of how to read it. Now it even supports text to speech for certain languages.

This has made reading and learning scripts in foreign languages much easier. You can access Google translate at http://translate.google.com/.

Google Translate

Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech

Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German

Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese

Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian Polish

Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish

Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

These are the languages currently supported for translation.

3Jun/090

Laptops – Which brand to go for ?

Laptops being on a high for sales in the market, the competition has become tougher.Not just the price tag and features makes an ideal laptop.One should look out for the malfunction stats to decide the right one.The 3 year malfunction scale of laptops from a service called SquareTrade states that 25.6% of HP laptops malfunctions in a period of 3 yrs from the date of purchase while Asus has the least in it with 15.6%.

Laptop failure rate

Reliability is the key factor to be analyzed while buying a laptop.Just performance with a frequent malfunctioning laptop wont pay for the penny spent.From the above stats, 20.4% of laptop failures are due to hardware malfunctioning and 10.6% was reported as accidental damage.Netbooks have a higher failure rate,almost 20 %, when compared to laptops.SO when you go for portability,go for a laptop unless you are so concerned about the size.