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Why not try a vacation in lovely Sweden this year? Although Web Page Translator won’t help you with the language barrier, it will make the experience seem that much more delightful when contrasted to the gorbellied codpiece of an interface that Web Page Translator sports. Don’t forget to see the lovely moose.
Featuring many of REALbasic’s industry-last features like IntrudingResizeSquarePlus and HotPantsResizingPro, WePaT has one tiny, overcrowded window. Evidently there wasn’t enough window space to go around. Brilliantly, all the languages, all of the translation directions, and all of the translation services are packed into one BGH-fed popup button. Perhaps the concept of multiple popup buttons did not occur to the developers, who were probably too busy dreaming up new annoying shareware practices, like prattling on at length about their incredibly low prices in a large floating window, yet neglecting to mention the actually amount of currency required. This user interface is as untameable as a hyena, although without the bone-crushing jaws.
Once you finish ogling at the interface, you may wish to move on and check out the actual functionality. It is about as sharp as a mashed potato. You see, it consists of a URL generator. You type in a URL, and it generates a URL for the selected translation service — it’s just that simple to write shareware, folks! WePaT, you are all hat and no cattle.
Perhaps if it had done more, like translating the alien radio signals I receive from my olive oil can, then I would have liked it more. But no, WePaT does not even manage to translate Lassie’s desperate barkings, which as everyone knows, usually mean “Little Timmy has fallen down the well again, that twerp! John Moltz probably pushed him in!”
AlphaOmegaSoftware, your software is, simply put, as useless as a pine scent air freshener in a sewer plant. For this, I award you a gleaming 9.4. Oh sthhister, sthhister! Isn’t it the most beautiful stholid gold thhing you ever shet eyeths on!?!
Posted by jan at March 17, 2003 06:10 PM | TrackBackIt's a shame. They offer translation to and from so many languages, but they've neglected Jive, Swedish Chef, and Redneck.
Posted by: boo radley on March 17, 2003 06:54 PMIsn't that icon in the screenshot from Apple's eWorld ISP?
Posted by: Diggory on March 17, 2003 07:22 PMhttp://babelfish.altavista.com/ does this kind of webpage translation service for free.
Yes, that icon is from eWorld!!
Posted by: michael on March 17, 2003 08:07 PMI especially like the way that the shareware text appears to have been poorly translated from French. Clearly they believe in using their own product...
Posted by: grimjim on March 18, 2003 01:46 AMIt's actually from one of Iconfactory's eWorld for OS X icon packs.
I wonder if the author asked for permission to use it.
Posted by: mgldan on March 18, 2003 10:02 AMI couldn't even get many of the services to work! The T-Mail options kept giving me a "Not found" error. That's not necessarily the software's fault, though. More of a Web site problem.
Posted by: Phase42 on March 18, 2003 10:45 AMOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWwwwwwwwww!! It hurts!
Posted by: me on March 18, 2003 11:18 AMA moose bit my sister once...
Posted by: Rob on March 18, 2003 11:40 AMHeh, I'm loving the references to things other than Emerson taht are now occuring in the reviews. Good old Python...
Posted by: Laemkral on March 18, 2003 11:44 AMLaemkral: You mean like The Music Man? WHAT YOU SAY!?! NOBODY CAUGHT THE MUSIC MAN REFERENCE!?!?
Posted by: Jan on March 18, 2003 12:17 PMA friend of mine got chades by an angry moose, while his parents stood to the side and took pictures of the event, and memorialize it every year with a stuffed moose.
He usually feeds the stuffed mooses to his dog.
Posted by: John Dough on March 18, 2003 01:45 PMOh I caught the music man reference, I just liked the Python one more. I've always been a bigger fan of Monty Python than of The Music Man. In the film production (the older one), they can't even march properly in the parade!
Posted by: on March 18, 2003 02:54 PMPretty much anything that is a musical gets a no vote in my book.
Posted by: John Dough on March 18, 2003 04:02 PMBut...wait...Monty Python is musical too...
Every sperm is sacred,
Every sperm is great.
When a sperm gets wasted,
God gets quite irate!
Ah but, it is not a "musical"
I am quite willing to make hasty statements and then back them up with faulty logic.
I will most likely do it again too.
Posted by: John Dough on March 18, 2003 09:09 PMf--- u f--- u!!!! the Orbournes rock
Posted by: Neo on June 23, 2003 08:43 AM