Auto translate any page without identifying the language

Identifying the language is necessary to translate a web page using Babel Fish or Google Translate.

But the main problem i had was that i could not identify which language the page was in, for example if the page was in Spanish, i would not be able to identify it as spanish.

So what option should i choose in the "Select from and to languages"?

This problem is solved when using Google or yahoo, as it shows the appropriate Translate this page link beside the web link. What to do if you encounter a web page when you are not using any search engine..So the Auto Translate Greasemonkey can be used to lead you to the google page with the Translate this page link.

The Auto Translate Greasemonkey can be improved to directly redirect you to the translated page. But i thought the overhead was too much.

Gmail-video response-spam filter

The gmail team has started a behind the scenes video to help them imagine how an email message travels around the world.

I made a very small response with a rather glitchy video. It shows the M-velope being thrown into a filter along with other spam mail. The M-velope then emerges from the filter and moves on. may be i should have taken a print out of the Mvelope and made a real movie!!


Any way this is supposed to show the wonderful spam filtering capacity of Gmail.

Feel luckier with google

This is an update to the previous post-Get lucky with google with input from Gautham pai. The new feel luckier script provides redirects to the suggested result.

For example if you were to search for nagarjunv you would get the suggestion of seeing results for nagarjuna.The script directly takes you to the suggested result page as in Yahoo. And a link to the original result is shown at the top as You actually typed:nagarjunv.

If you feel the word is correct on its own merit, that word can be added to the dictionary(on ur system only). Later it can be removed from the dictionary as well. The remove from dictionary link appears when the query is tried the next time, the redirect does not happen as the word is in the dictionary although Google suggests another result.

However, these scripts will be just as useful as bookmarks in their present form. They would be useful only if the redirects and made lucky queries are stored online. So the queries made lucky by other users of the script will also be lucky for us even if we are typing in the query for the first time. Google will have to do more than this simple script as it would have to take into consideration the language and other criteria as well.

Get lucky with google

Gauthampai said "Sometimes, 'we want to feel lucky' in the search result page as well. ;)" and here we are.

The greasymonkey feellucky makes it possible for us to bookmark search results as lucky. If you have made a particular query lucky by clicking on the make lucky link, the next time you put the same query you get lucky.

To install this greasemokey the firefox browser with greasemonkey is needed. To install just click on Install feellucky. The feel lucky script makes use of GM_setvalue and GM_getvalue to store the queries that need to be lucky. So the lucky feeling is limited to the system on which the gresymonkey is installed.

To make it useful for a wider audience, the lucky queries need to be stored on a server.