Gmail new as you type transliteration

I’d be surprised if this is more than one or two days old as I don’t recall seeing it before. Today as I was typing the email I saw a new option beside the Bold font option.

> And it would seem this is an application of the Google Ta3reeb Arabic Transliteration, only it works on [...]

Google Translate now gives more than just a word

Since it’s release, Google translate have drawn much attention, being implemented based on automation techniques rather than word to word, as the translation engine was trained by comparing similar articles in different languages. There was one element missing however since then. Given any word, you would get only one translation for it. No nouns, verbs, [...]

Google Ta3reeb Arabic Transliteration

Google Arabic Transliteration (ta3reeb) is another cool service by Google, that translates the Roman characters into Arabic and vice versa. Don’t we Arabs have numbers standing for our extra characters, and don’t we get non-Arabic speakers confused when we do so? We have it now as brand names even. Taw9eel.com, 6alabat.com, and others. But the [...]