Android The Green Robot

What is Android?

Android is a multi-lingual operating system designed firstly for smartphones, and tablets, offering users access to Google services like Search, Youtube, Maps, Gmail and many more applications that you can download at Android app store. Android Inc. was founded in 2003 in Palto Alto, Carlifornia by (Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White). On August 2005 Google adquired Android Inc, however the initial release of this platform was in 2008, in fact the first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008. Even if this platform was firstly designed for mobile devices, right now it has additional applications on televisions, games consoles and other electronics devices. Reports say that Android has a worldwide smartphone market share of 75% during the third quarter of 2012, with 500 million devices activate in total and 1.3 million activations per day. Then Android is one of the most popular smartphone platform in the world.

Android features:

There are a lot of version of Android. The lastest Version 4.2 Jelly Bean released in 2012 is awesome and very useful. But let mention some of features generally find in Android:

Multiple language support, Multitasking of applications, Accessibility, Voice based features, Messaging, Web browser, Widgets, GPS, External storage, Handset layouts, Java support, Streaming and Media support, Tethering, Screen Capture, Video calling, Connectivity including GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC and WiMAX . To conclude we can say Android is continuously driving innovation forward, pushing the boundaries of communication and sharing with new capabilities and interactions.

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Google Translate The Machine Translation

Google Translate is a free automatic translator. It s a machine translation service provided by Google Inc. It works without the intervention of human translators, using state-of-the-art technology instead. Google Translate currently supports translation between 64 languages, including Haitian Creole! Do you imagine that! It can translate words, sentences and web pages. When Google Translate generates a translation, it looks for patterns in hundreds of millions of documents to help decide on the best translation for you. This process of seeking patterns in large amounts of text is called "statistical machine translation". To Translate your documents right now go to: www.google.translate.com But if you use the Chrome browser and you want to translate entire webpages, just go the Chrome Web store and add the Google translate gadget to Chrome. This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the translate icon whenever you want to translate the page you're visiting.

In June 8, 2009 Google released a product called Google Translator Toolkit. It´s a web application designed to allow translators to edit the translations that Google Translate automatically generates. With this Web application, translators can organize their work and use shared translations, glossaries and translation memories Google Translator Toolkit is a powerful and easy-to-use editor that helps translators work faster and better for free!

Google Translate is available as a free downloadable application for Android OS users. It´s available for devices running Android 2.1 and above and can be downloaded by searching for “Google Translate” in Android Market. Google also launched a Google Translate HTML5 web application for iOS foriPhone and iPod touch users. It accepts voice input for 15 languages and allows translation of a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages. What is more translations can be spoken out loud in 23 different languages.

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Show You to the World with PICASA!

What is Picasa?

Picasa is a free Google tool that´s help you to view, to manage, ogarnize and share digitals photos and images files, originally created by Lifescape, Inc. but bought in 2004 by Google Inc. which developed it as a freeware. Picasa is a word formed from two words of a Spanish painter named Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa (Spanish for "my house") and "pic" for pictures (personalized art). The software of Picasa (that you download, install and run on your PC) helps you to locate, and organize edit and add effects to your photos stored on your computer. The Picasa Web, inside of your browser lets manage photos through the Picasa Web Album a photo sharing website, where you can store and share photos online. To download the application go to www.picasa.google.com. To use your Picasa Web Album and share with friends family go to www.picasaweb.google.com, and use your Google account to sign in.

Picasa Features: The Picasa application, supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, Mac OS X too and has Google+ integration for users of that service, so you can upload and share your photos on Google+ , Tag your Google+ friends and share pictures of them. For organizing photos, Picasa has file importing, tracking features, as facial recognition, and collections. Picasa offers other several basic photo editing functions, including color enhancement, red eye reduction, cropping, adding text to image, slide shows, printing, and image timelines.

The Picasa Web Albums (PWA) allows users with accounts at Google to store and share 1 GB of large photos for free. However, users can also rent additional storage space (shared between Google services such as Gmail, Google Drive and Picasa Web Albums) from 25 GB to 16 TB. PWA uses an "unlisted number" approach for URLs for private photo albums. This feature enables a user to email a private album's URL to anyone, and the recipient can view the album without having to create a user account. This is done via an "authentication key" that must be appended to the URL for the album to be shown. The Picasa Help files say that private albums are not searchable by anyone except the user. To conclude, another visibility option named "sign-in required to view" is available too. This makes the album viewable only to those with whom the album is explicitly shared.

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