Ultralingua, one of the leading providers of language tools for educators, business travelers and others across various industries has just infused more quality into the already vast domain of multi-lingual/translation apps available at the App Store for the iPhone/iPod touch. Building on the success of their existing translation apps, Ultralingua has now teamed up with the touchstone of bi-lingual dictionary content, Collins, the subsidiary of the Harper Collins group.
The following versions are available under the Reference category: English Definitions, French-English Dictionary, German-English Dictionary, Spanish-English Dictionary, Italian-English Dictionary, and Portuguese-English Dictionary. Each title costs $24.95.
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Babel fish...is probably the oddest thing in the universe...it absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy... It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix... the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres... The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Your iPhone/iPod touch has currently 168 apps (and counting) to help you out in alien language environments. Some of those are even Read More...
Google engineers, Allen Hutchinson and David Singleton have customized the web app Google Translate for the iPhone. It supports bi-directional translations between all the existing language pairs in Google Translate. (23 languages, both European and Asian, with bi-directional translatibility among any of them) It is fast and like all Google products, very neat. You can directly go to Google Translate from your iPhone safari browser.
What is special:
Client-side data store on the iPhone, which allows the user to use the past translations even if they are not able to access the local data network.
The program is written with AJAX Language API. Read More...
