Russifying your keyboard and Translations!

[Quasimoto]

You know I just downloaded a software from Smartlinkcorp.com
I put ParwinCE (Russifying, fonts, etc.) for handhelds on my palmtop, and Pocket PromptMT on it as well. They also have the standard programs for desktop PCs. The best part is: CHEAP!!!! It is also called Paralink. I was suprised at how efficient and cool it is. It uses the same translation engine as the translate.ru site, but has some Americanization qualities, such as our lingo, advanced internet functions, etc., and a more advanced shell around it. I can type in Russian in Microsoft Word at the touch of a button, and do "on the fly translations" in the Prompt program. It will make emailing me letters from Ukraine much easier for Tanya, and later her mother, via the modem (which Smartlink did not supply of course, it came on my Jornada 680).

Anyway, I have always used the translate.ru site in the past, but the engines are almost identical.

If you want to try the online translators, everyone has always said that Prompt is the best:

http://www.translate.ru/eng/erre.asp?directions=131073

but the Paralink or Smartlinkcorp site is vitually the same except the shell, and you can send emails directly from the site in Russian at the click of a button. Translator:

http://translation2.paralink.com/

Software:

http://www.smartlinkcorp.com/wce/tran/promt-er-hpro/index.shtml

Steve - see ya later! Off to Ukraine in 14 hours

[JohnG]

... in response to Russifying your keyboard and Translation..., posted by Quasimoto on Apr 15, 2002

1. Stick-on labels from Fingertip software:

http://www.fingertipsoft.com/kbd/labels.html

All you need is the stickers for $12. Nothing else, no software, etc.

2. Microsoft's latest operating systems, like Windows2000, XP, and Millenium have multi-lingual capabilities built right into them, so you need no additional software. If you click on START\SETTINGS\CONTROL PANEL, and select Regional Options, on the General Tab you can select Cyrillic as an additonal language. Then, pressing Alt/Shift toggles your keyboard between English and Russian.

You may also be interested to know that many Microsoft products, including Internet Explorer, will let you display the menus and options under the menus in Russian (or other languages).

So, basically, for $12 you can make it easy for your Russian fiancee/wife to communicate with her Russian family and friends both here and abroad.

One more tip: If you use Outlook Express to send emails or to send Word documents in Cyrillic, you may be prompted when you send it as to whether it should be sent Unicode or "As Is". Choose the "as is" option because if the recieving computer does not have unicode capability, your cyrillic letter or email will be unreadable.

Caio,

John and Olga
(5 months and going strong!)

[Quasimoto]

... in response to Two easy ways to Russify your computer, posted by JohnG on Apr 15, 2002

Thanks JohnG,

I have already done everything you said, but the one thing it lacks is translation. The programs I bought were all directed toward using the Prompt translation. Can't be beat!

Steve