After you've pressed the Control button twice, MacLinguist reads the text of the element which is currently located under the mouse cursor. It can be text in any arbitrary application: a paragraph of text in Safari, some text on a system button or even a menu item in Menu Bar. MacLinguist can even translate filenames - just point your mouse on a file in Finder! If you prefer only a certain part of text to be translated, just select that part of the text, and press the Control button twice. Most OS X applications allow MacLinguist to translate text right away, however some applications like TextWrangler, Chrome and Opera, require the text to be selected (highlighted) prior to be translated.
MacLinguist can replace the currently selected text with the translation - just press Option (Alt), while holding Control.
- When you switch to the Mac, it can feel disorienting at first. That's especially true if you've used Windows PCs for years. Adjusting to the Mac doesn't take long, but if you're used to finding certain applications, files, and system settings on Windows, it helps to quickly pick up their OS X equivalents. Here's a short glossary with all the essentials. Switch to Mac Every week.
- Stick with web services where you can tap professionals to do it for you. Frankly software is still years from being accurate. Check out something like http.
IGoogle Translate is a Mac OS X Web service that allows you to run Google Translate as an application without opening a browser. It supports all Google Translate features and has some extra features as well. Download Google Translate (Chrome) 2.0.9 for Mac OS. Google Translate by Google, Inc. Is a Google Chrome extension that enables users to translate entire web pages into any language easily. ITranslate, the most popular translator tool on the App Store, now also on your Mac. ITranslate for Mac puts 90+ languages at your fingertips. It is designed as a status bar app that is always just one click or keystroke away to help you solve any translation problem.
By default MacLinguist translates any of the 40 supported languages (it autodetects the language of the text) into your current system language, however you can easily select another destination language that you want MacLinguist to translate the texts to.
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MacLinguist also supports Typing Mode. If you press Option+Space, you can enter some text that you want to have translated manually. The text will be translated as you type. If you press Enter, the translated text will be pasted automatically into your current application.