Google Pinyin – Traditional and Simplified Chinese Text Input Software
Google Pinyin 2.0.5.42 is now available with minor changes. Typing mandarin has never been so much easier, with its new predictive technology, Google Pinyin is the best Chinese text input software based on my own experience.
What makes Google Input intelligent? It uses Google Translate and their huge database of cache to predict the possible combination when a person is typing. The database is constantly updated, therefore making its text prediction even more accurate as time goes by.
Other Simplified Chinese text input software available in the market are Microsoft Pinyin IME and Sogou Pinyin.
Google Toolbar 5 for Firefox 3 – Access Your Bookmarks From Any Computer
I used to have Google Toolbar installed on my Firefox, 2 reasons why I choose Google Toolbar is the Pagerank feature and the quick search feature. I stopped installing Google Toolbar when Firefox introduced the quick search feature and somehow I got bored with pagerank.
Google Toolbar 5 on the other hand has some really neat features. The Bookmark feature stores your bookmarks online, this enables you full access to your bookmark whenever you are, works great for those travel junkie or any public computer.
Want to create and label bookmarks that you can access from any computer? Simply click the Toolbar’s star icon, or right-click the star to add and label a bookmark. You’ll be able to access your Bookmarks menu on any computer with the new Google Toolbar installed.
The only drawback for its Bookmark feature is accessibility in public computer in a library or cybercafes. It would be great if Google introduce an Ajax or Java Web Based Google Toolbar.
p.s. Access to our bookmarks is possible via Google Bookmarks, also known as Google Notebook. What I was hoping to see is a web based Google Toolbar with the same exact features.
