Sunday, September 26, 2010

[GoogleLabs] Script Converter, Scribe and Breadcrumb

Google Labs is a playground where users can play with some of the cool experiments done at Google. Once the idea / product gets stabilized, they will be graduated from the labs. Some of the products graduated from the labs include Google Maps, Google Suggest, Google Reader, etc. Script Converter, Scribe and Breadcrumb are some of the tools recently launched in the labs. Try them out today.

Script Converter

Script Converter is an awesome tool which allows you to read a text / a complete web page in a script of your choice. This does not translate the text. This will be handy if a person can speak a particular language but can not read / write in that language. For example, I can understand spoken Telugu but can not read / write Telugu scripts. If I want to read a Telugu web page, this tool will help me to view the page in English scripts. The tool can also auto-detect the scripts used on a site. Open the twitter page of @agaraadhi. Check out the same page with English script here.

Google Script ConverterScribe

Scribe is an auto-completion tool which was launched last month. It provides text completion suggestions based on the information already typed in the document. This also helps in saving the keystrokes. Scribe is available as a Chrome extension as well and can be used as a auto-completion on all the web pages.

Google Scribe Breadcrumb 

Breadcrumb is a less known tool on Google Labs which enables you to create a variety of mobile learning applications and allows you to make your application work with only few annotations to the plain text. Annotations can be used to control the flow of text in the application. It provides an interface where in you can type the text and a mobile application will be created based on the annotated text. User guide / documentation is not available yet. Some of the use cases of this tool could be 1. Help data-center technicians troubleshoot problems on the datacenter floor. 2. Decision making system for the new employees of a team 3. Alternative for flow charts. () and [] are the annotations supported so far. click on the screenshot below to know more about the syntax.

Breadcrumb

-- Varun

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