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For example if you place the letter r in the google box it will show you all the possible Gujarati words that you can browse.
Keep playing (English in Gujarati) and you will see for yourself
This is fantastic! Try it out yourselves!!
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TIP: Type “Gujarati recipes”
Google Input Method: Type anywhere in your language
Google Transliteration IME is an input method editor which allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages using a roman keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script. Note that this is not the same as translation -- it is the sound of the words that is converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. Converted content will always be in Unicode.
Google Transliteration IME is currently available for 22 different languages - Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya andUrdu.
Features
- Offline SupportNo dependency on internet connection.
- Word CompletionsDictionary based word completions for prefixes.
- Personalized ChoicesRemember user corrections along with macro and canonical support.
- Easy KeyboardDictionary enabled keyboard to enter rare and complex words.
- Quick SearchSingle click web search for highlighted word.
- Cool CustomizationCustomize suggestions page size, display font and more
Google Transliteration IME is an input method editor which allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages using a roman keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script. Note that this is not the same as translation -- it is the sound of the words that is converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. Converted content will always be in Unicode. For example, typing "hamesha" transliterates into Hindi as: 
and typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as: 
and typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as: 
Google Transliteration IME is available for 22 different languages - Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya and Urdu.
Sample status window and the edit window for Hindi IME are shown below. For simplicity, Hindi IME is used as an example at most places in this help page.
Install
To install, download (If you are on a 64-bit Windows, make sure you have selected the 64-bit radio button in the download page) and run the installer and follow the instructions on screen.
- More than one language IME can be installed on the same client machine.
- Requirements are Windows 7/Vista/XP 32-bit/64-bit operating systems.
- Only one instance of IME will be installed per machine but the configuration is done for each user using IME.
Uninstall
To uninstall, follow these steps:
- Click on the "Start" menu.
- Select "Control Panel" and then go to "Add or Remove Programs".
- In the program list, select the "Google
Input" , click on "Change/Remove" button. - By default, "Retain my personal data with settings" option will be checked, which will not clean your personal customizations like display font, user correction cache etc., as part of uninstall. Uncheck the option, if you want to clean all your personal settings information.
- In the "Uninstall Google
Input" dialog box, click "Yes".
If you want to use IME with any application like notepad, you must first open the application and then open our IME. IME can be opened by clicking on the language bar on the desktop and then selecting the IME language icon or through a shortcut key if it's already configured. To close IME, you can change the language in language bar or try right clicking on the current application to see whether it supports 'Close IME' popup menu option or by closing the current application.
Displaying Language Bar
- In desktop, right click on tool bar and select Toolbars -> Language bar
Enabling Language Bar
If the 'Language bar' option is not visible in 'Toolbars', then it needs to be enabled through control panel:
Windows 7/Vista
- Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Keyboard and Languagestab
- Click on Change keyboards... button to open Text services and input languagesdialog
- Navigate to Language Bar tab
- Enable the radio button Docked in the taskbar under Language Bar section
- Apply all settings and try to display language bar as mentioned in previous section.
Windows XP
- Go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages tab ->Text services and input languages (Details) ->Advanced Tab
- Make sure that under System configuration, option Turn off advanced text services is NOT checked.
- Go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages tab ->Text services and input languages (Details) ->Settings Tab
- Click Language Bar
- Select Show the Language bar on the desktop. Click OK.
- If you are installing the IME for East Asian language or Right-To-Left language, go toControl Panel -> Regional and Language Options ->Languages Tab
- Make sure that options Install files for complex scripts and right to left languagesand Install files for East Asian languages are checked in the checkboxes. This requires installation of system files and the system will prompt to insert the Operating System Disc.
- Apply all settings and try to display language bar as mentioned in previous section.
IME Shortcut
A shortcut key sequence can be applied to the IME as follows which can be used to quickly enable IME for any in-focus application:
Windows 7/Vista
- Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Keyboard and Languagestab
- Click on Change keyboards... button to open Text services and input languagesdialog
- Navigate to Advanced Key Settings tab
- If Google
Input is not listed in Installed Services box, then click Add and in Add Input language dialog box, go to the language for which you want to enable IME in the languages tree and expand the node. Check the checkbox next to GoogleInput in the list. - In Hot keys for input languages Select To
- Google Input - Press Change Key Sequence
- Select Enable Key Sequence
- Select option like Left ALT + SHIFT + Key 1
- Apply all changes
- Now opening an application like notepad and pressing Left ALT + SHIFT + Key 1should open the IME.
Windows XP
- Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages tab -> Text services and input languages (Details) -> Settings Tab
- If either
or Google Input not listed in Installed Services box, then click Add and inAdd Input languagedialog box, selectin Input language and Google Input inKeyboard layout/IME. Click OK - Press Key Settings
- In Hot keys for input languages, Select Switch to
-Google Input - Press Change Key Sequence
- Select Enable Key Sequence
- Select option like Left ALT + SHIFT + Key 1
- Apply all changes
- Now opening an application like notepad and pressing Left ALT + SHIFT + Key 1should open the IME.
Status Window
Whenever you enable our IME for an application either through a shortcut or through language bar, its status window will be visible on the screen. By default it will be placed at the bottom right corner of your desktop which can also be moved around. It is used for more configuration and controlling various features of our IME. It has three to five icons (depending on the language and features available) with leftmost being the application icon. Next to it are IME language indicator button, keyboard button (not present for Amharic and Tigrinya), canonical mode button (This button will be present if you have any canonical schemes associated with the IME) and menu button in that order.
Edit Window
When the IME is enabled for an application like notepad and you start typing, IME displays the edit window with the typed text and the corresponding word choices in IME language. In the below example, user has typed 'googl' and the IME has displayed five choices numbered 1 to 5.
Navigation and Selection
By default the leftmost choice will be highlighted indicating active choice. Active choice can be changed by navigating other choices throughBOTTOM-ARROW or TAB key - which moves the selection to the right; or through UP-ARROW or SHIFT+TAB keys - which moves the selection to left. To select one of the choices as the new word for your application, useENTER key which inserts the active choice to the application at its current cursor position. Using SPACE or any other PUNCTUATION CHARACTER also inserts the active choice to the application along with the typed punctuation character. Exception will be when IME thinks that there is a better choice of word containing the punctuation character as part of the word itself. All the above controls only insert the active choice (highlighted) into the application. Another way to insert any choice even if it is not active is using its position number as:CTRL+
Word Completions
When you type a word, the choices displayed in edit window will be either in BLACK or BLUEcolor. Intuitive partial word choices for the typed content are displayed in BLACK color which will always be grouped on the left side. If there are any better dictionary-based word completions for the typed content, they are displayed in BLUE color and grouped on the right side.
Paging
In the example being discussed, IME displays only 5 choices in the edit window which is the page size setting of the edit window. It can be configured through the menu button of the status window. If there are more choices than the page size set, then it will be displayed in the next page. Page navigation can be done through the small arrow buttons at the right bottom corner of the edit window or through PageUP and PageDown keys. Even when you navigate the choices with arrow or tab keys, the control moves to the next or previous page from either end of the edit window.
Search
At anytime while typing in edit window, if you click the Google image on top right corner of the edit window, it triggers a web search for the active/highlighted choice in google.com. Search can also be triggered for non-active choice by right-clicking on any choice and then clicking theSearch... drop-down button.
User Cache
There will be scenarios where the leftmost choice is not the one you are looking for and you select some other choice (second choice in the below example for typed word 'program') which will be inserted into the application.
IME remembers this selection for the current user and when the user next types 'program' again, the last selected choice will now be displayed as the leftmost choice. To share this information across all applications for a user, this is persisted at user level even after closing the application. But this persisting behavior can be disabled through the 'Disable User Cache' option from menu button of status window. Note that caching doesn't apply if you select word completions. It is only for word choices shown in BLACK color.
Switch to English
If you want to add both roman alphabet (typically English) content and IME language content to any application, there is an easy way to switch between the two. In one mode IME gives you choices in its language and in another mode it just emits what you have typed. Toggling can be done by clicking the IME language button in status window or through shortcuts:CTRL+G or F12.
When you don't get some words as expected choices for any rare complex words; you can use the flexible keyboard to input any possible word. You can open the keyboard by clicking the keyboard button on status window or through the shortcut CTRL+K. Mouse is used to enter characters from the IME keyboard which also triggers word completions in the edit window. Keyboard can be closed by clicking the keyboard button again on status window or through shortcut keys: CTRL+K or ESC. There is also option to enter Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) and Zero Width Non Joiner (ZWNJ) characters.
You can customize many features through IME's menu. Options available through the menu popup in status window are:
- Change or activate one of the available canonical schemes (Option available only if there is atleast one scheme in the Schemes directory).
- Select the font and size to be used to display the choices in IME language inside edit window (Suggestion Font).
- Select the font and size to be used to display the English/Roman characters inside edit window.
- Set the page size for edit window to restrict its size through number of choices.
- Enable or disable the persistence of user cache.
- Add/Edit or Delete macros using Manage Macros option.
- Information about the IME like version.
- Help, linking to this page.
Special Cases
There are some special cases in how IME behaves for some characters in some languages:
- Example in Arabic for special case of SPACE where it is part of the typed word.
- Example in Arabic for special case of PUNCTUATION where it is part of the typed word.
- Example in Greek for special case of CAPITALIZATION where only first character being in uppercase in input retains its casing.
- Example in Greek for special case of CAPITALIZATION where all uppercase word in input retains its casing.
- Example in Greek for special case of DIGITS where number is converted digit wise instead of its whole value.
IME supports adding custom user defined macros. Macros are short character sequences mapped to a word of your choice. When you type a character sequence, if there is a word corresponding to that sequence in the user-defined macros collection then it will be shown as the first choice in the Edit Window. You can manage the macros by choosing the 'Manage Macros...' option from the IME's menu.
When you select this option the 'Manage Macros' dialog opens, allowing you to add, modify and delete the set of macros.
Adding a Macro entry
Click on the 'Add' button. This will add an empty row to the Macros List. You can double click (or select the cell and press F2) on the cell to add the new Macro entry.
- Macro Text should consist of only alpha-numeric characters and the length should not exceed 100 characters. Macro Text is case-sensitive.
- Macro Target should not contain any spaces and the length should not exceed 50 characters.
Removing a Macro entry
Select the cells you want to delete (Use Shift+Click to select a range or Ctrl+Click to select multiple disconnnected cells) and click on the 'Delete' button. Note that you cannot delete single cells. If you delete a cell, the full row will be deleted.
Modifying and Saving Macro Entries
- You can edit any cell by double clicking it (or selecting the cell and pressing F2 key).
- You can cancel the edit anytime by pressing the 'Esc' key or clicking outside the cell. Press the 'Enter' key to complete the edit.
- After all edits are completed you need to click on the 'Save' button to save your changes.
- You can click on the 'Discard' button anytime to discard all the changes made so far (after the previous save action).
Once you have the Macros in place you can use them while typing. For example if 'Mon' is mapped to 
in the Macros, then when you type 'Mon' you will see as the first option.
in the Macros, then when you type 'Mon' you will see as the first option.
Transliteration IME supports adding custom transliteration schemes. Defining a scheme is done in a text file with a .scm extension. Once the scheme file is created you need to place it in the Schemes directory and when you start the IME the next time, it will automatically pick up the scheme files and provide you a menu option to choose one of the available schemes.
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Google is amazing (please thank me for this amazing revelation). There are some things you probably didn’t know Google can do. Take your time and read the information below. You’ll likely learn a few tips and tricks that will make you appreciate Google even more.
10. Find a beautiful wallpaper for your desktop resolution with Google images
Here’s how you do it:
Notice that many of the images in the results are from wallpaper sites. Google Images makes it very convenient to go through these types of sites and browse them like a gallery instead of going to each gallery site separately.
9. Create unlimited disposable email addresses with Gmail
Take the following example:
 That’s right, you can add one or more dots ANYWHERE between your username and send messages to that ‘new’ email. All of those messages will arrive to your old (without dots) email. Hard to explain without a picture. But somehow Google did find a way to do it…
Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. While we know it might be unnerving if you think someone else’s mail is being routed to your account, don’t worry: both of these addresses are yours.
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:
All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You’ll still go to your account.
8. Search videos durations using Google Video
I’ve noticed there’s not a single video site that allows you to search videos by duration. Let’s say I want to learn Spanish and I want comprehensive videos for that (longer than 20 minutes.) To search, I go to Google Advanced Video Search page and select “Long” next to “Duration”. Here’s what happens:
Now all that’s left is to get some free time and watch those…
7. Want to find an iPad alternative using Google Search?
Sure, you can write ‘iPad alternative’ in Google but that won’t give you the best results. Instead, try this:
 Using “better than product” where product=any product will give you not only alternatives but better alternatives to a particular product. Very cool.6. Detect any unknown language with Google Language Detector
I have a big problem:
 
Another good way to detect and also translate is to use Google Translate and the “Detect Language” option:
 5. See what the Dutch haven been searching for recently using Google Insights
Google is the most popular search engine in almost any country in the world. Google Insights (like the name suggests) gives you ‘insights’ of what people have been searching for around the world. For example, Netherlands:
Hyves is a Dutch portal and social network. Weer seems to be a weather portal.
4. When did Google become more popular than Microsoft? Google Trends has the answer
Google Trends helps you discover the trends on various topics and see what people have been searching for over time. In this case, you can see when people started searching for Google more than Microsoft in early 2005.
3. Hate opening PDF files? Google Docs is the solution
So you’ve been searching on Google for a particular topic and found a PDF file:
Instead of opening the file in Adobe Reader (which is a painful process), you can click on “Quick View” and open the file in Google Docs! It takes seconds to open and it’s way more flexible. If you choose later, you can always save the file as PDF by choosing the export option in Google Docs.
2. Scan and Read your RSS feeds like email messages in Google Reader
You probably know how easy it is to open and read email messages in Gmail thanks to the list view. Well, you can do the same in Google Reader:
The default view in Google Reader is ‘expanded’ which makes the items pretty difficult to scan and read. If you change the view from expanded to ‘list’, then it becomes WAY easier to SCAN items and pick what you like.
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