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 cheerful Seriously, I dun know of any other internet entity that is as helpful and wide-ranging as Google. In this day of never getting something for nothing, Google turns it around and gives you everything for free.Today I was making individualised search engines for each of my sites. Then I designed my own theme for my iGoogle page and added all my search engines to it. I played with my Google calendar and found out I could do a lot of things with it too. I use their translator to read and communicate in other languages. I use Picasa to see all my photos in a big slideshow. I have a Google-designed website that Google hosts, photo albums that are online that Google takes care of, a space to store documents and notes, and a blogging service. I depend on my Gmail for my everyday heavy correspondence, and I never have to worry about deleting things or going over my storage quota. Of course, Google search is invaluable. I understand that Google also has a lot of other things I havena even tried out yet, like managing your health records online. I suppose some might say that this all means that we depend too much on one entity for all our needs. This may be, but at least Google knows how to deliver--unlike the government, for example. Or my employer. Or the medical establishment. Perhaps we should let Google run the country. :D Image | ||||||||||
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 thankful By Conall Ó FáthartaIrish Examiner Friday, August 28, 2009 http://translate.google.com IRISH speakers can finally use the internet to find and view search results on foreign language websites in their native tongue. Yesterday, internet search engine giant Google announced the launch of a full suite of translation tools "as Gaeilge". The service can be used to translate specific web pages or text, as well as search English web pages using Irish keywords, and have the results translated from any of 51 other languages into Irish. The company cited an example whereby an Irish-speaking internet user is planning an African safari tour. The Google translation tool allows users to have web results about safari tour companies in English, French or another language translated back into Irish in just a fraction of a second. Users can also paste text or an URL for a particular web page in any of the 51 supported languages and receive a translation in Irish almost immediately via Google Translate. Director of product management at Google, Tom Stocky, said the tool was about allowing access to information in all languages. "At Google we believe that the internet is about enabling access to the world’s information, in all of its languages." "Today’s launch of Google Translate in nine new languages makes it easier to access web content from all over the web, even when it is written in a language that is not your own," he said. The company said that, while machine translation "isn’t perfect", it was a great tool for anyone looking to access and get an overview of information in languages he or she doesn’t know well. In addition, Google also provides users the ability to suggest a better translation if they encounter a translation that’s awkward or not quite right. The company will use this feedback to help improve translation quality in updates to the system. | ||||||||||
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By David Rising in Berlin Scotsman 28 August 2009  Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau from dpcamps.org ARCHITECTURAL plans for the Auschwitz death camp that were found in Berlin last year were handed over to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday for display at the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The 29 sketches of the death camp built in Nazi-occupied Poland date as far back as 1941. They include detailed blueprints for gas chambers, crematoria, barracks and delousing facilities and are considered important for understanding the beginnings of the Nazi genocide. The sketches are initialled by the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess. "There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened," Mr Netanyahu said. "Let them come to Jerusalem and look at these plans, these plans for the factory of death." ( >>Continue reading ) | ||||||||||
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Telegraph.co.uk 27 Aug 2009 Lucky, the duckling who fractured her leg but was able to walk again wearing a specially-made sandal, has died.  Owner Allison Morgan, 44, of Newport, south Wales, said that Lucky had died undergoing surgery to rectify her handicap.The duckling initially faced a bleak future when she fractured her leg in an accident and her foot healed facing the wrong way. Two-month-old Lucky, breaking-in her new sandal, at home in Newport Mrs Morgan called in local cobbler Kelvin Reddicliffe whose duck footwear design meant Lucky avoided being put down. It meant the Muscovy duckling was able to keep up with the two other ducks which also waddle around Mrs Morgan's garden. But Lucky failed to survive surgery on her foot at a local vet's on Monday. ( >>Read on ) | ||||||||||
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