Hasta La Gadget!

Ridiculousness. Hilarity. So many laughs and chortles and comedic gold bars appear that I can’t help but keep watching. It’s brilliant, really. Malinda Kathleen Reese took the lyrics from Frozen’s Let it Go by Idina Menzel through Chinese, Macedonian, French, Polish, Creole and a whole bunch of other languages and then back into English. Let It Go becomes Give Up.

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International travelers just got one more reason to update to iOS 7: Google’s Translate app. Mountain View’s machine translation service is already the go-to language conversion tool for many users, but the app’s latest iOS update packs in a few killer features. In addition to a modern UI overhaul, the iPhone app no supports seven additional languages (bringing its total up to 70) and touch-based handwriting input. The latter feature hit the service’s homepage earlier this summer, and converts the user’s woeful imitations of foreign script into translatable characters. It’s clean looking, useful and brand new. What more can you ask for?

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Say you have some scribbles in an unfamiliar language you want to translate. Better find a native speaker. Or you could just turn to Google Translate, which now supports handwritten translation in 45 different languages.

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If there is one thing which is a surefire fatal method of running a company, it would be to make sure that you rest on your laurels without thinking a wee bit on moving forward. Hence, it is nice to know that Google is a huge fan of innovation, and while it has been some time since the last update to the Google Translate app was released, this does not mean that the folks over at Google have been sleeping or playing SimCity all this while. No sir, they have been hard at work on a new Google Translate app update which was introduced earlier this morning, and along with it came a new option to download language packs so that it can be used whenever you do not have access to the Internet. Yes sir, Google Translate will now play nice with 50 different language packs to deliver offline translations.

This is great news, and the group that will get affected the most would be folks who do plenty of traveling, especially to areas where the language is far different from what they are familiar with, since it does away with the need to pick up a data plan to make sure that you will not be left high and dry in a foreign country, which could end up being a really expensive experience where overseas data roaming is concerned. Best of all is, it is free!

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Google Translate has been steadily gaining new features, most recently adding translations from cameras and suggesting synonyms for your searched-for words. The latest addition, Phrasebook, lets you save translations for later reference. In practice, it’s quite similar to starring items in your Gmail inbox; simply click the star icon under your translated text, and the sentence (or words) in question will be saved to your Phrasebook. To view all your saved translations, you simply click on the “Show Phrasebook” icon located in the top-right, and hovering over the text will give you the option to listen to each phrase. Controls let you search the saved phrases by language pairing or by searching specific phrases. We don’t know about you, but we’re already hard at work memorizing “Welcome to San Francisco!” in 50-some languages ahead of Engadget Expand this weekend.

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