Friday, October 10, 2008

Ginger translates and speaks catalan

We're sure you knew Ginger, our cute translator. Now you can also include Ginger in your web page offering your users translate and read texts in catalan.

The following form shows you an example that you could include in your site:


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In addition, you should know that Ginger has greatly improved her pronunciation in the other languages she spokes and translates, and also has learned to translate a little better in some of them.



As always, Ginger wants to improve her accent and pronuntiation as soon as possible, so if you like leave a comment for her, she'll get happy listening your ideas...

Monday, July 28, 2008

New online navigator

The new get routes functionality published today, puts at your fingertips a powerful navigation browser with step by step directions, full route printing, coordinates management, global mapping, multilingual interface and so on.




It's simple, just enter any source and destination addresses on which you want to calculate the route and press the calculate button. You can enter the addresses in your own language, or if you prefer, specify the coordinates of your gps.


Of course, you can include the route manager into your web page without knowing any programming or web design, simply copying and pasting a bit of HTML.

Check how easy it can be with the example that we offer in the form below:


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From:To:


You may also find useful an example to calculate the route from or to a spot that you prefix, such as your home, your business office, a place of interest, a meeting point, and so on. In that case, you can set the reference address on the form and only ask about the origin where the user wants to reach.

The following example shows the route to Pentasoft offices from any address you enter:




To Pentasoft from:



The interface where you see the results of the route, is an interactive map that allows various types of views (map, satellite, hybrid, 3D, etc.). It also offers a comprehensive positioning and zooming system. You can use the left sidebar with step by step directions to preview addresses just clicking on each one.



We hope you'll find it interesting and, please, tell us what can we improve to get your new browser ever more useful...

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Translate and listen with Ginger

Ginger is the new translator of Seekky. Despite her youth, she already knows how to translate between several languages and can read both the original text and the resulting translation.



You can include Ginger in your website without knowing anything about programming or web design, simply copying and pasting a bit of HTML. The form below shows an example that you can add to your webpage:


Seekky





Please note that Ginger has just started to translate and still commits some errors.
Over time you will see that she learns very quickly, please be patient with her. By the way, when she is reading text, usually use to take a rest after the first 600 characters for not running out of breath ...


Please, tell us what do you think about Ginger and how we could improve her functionality ...

Friday, May 30, 2008

Drill-down search

It's already available a new hierarchical web search feature at Seekky. The new technique consist of finding similar pages to each result when conducting any search. In the same way, you can also preview documents related to each result item, as well as additional results pages within the same domain as the site that you're previewing.


The following picture shows an example of the similar pages listing you get as a result of your search CNN.




By clicking on the similar pages icon for the "CNN" result item, you get a hit list containing links to the websites of other news agencies or channels like "ABC", "BBC" and others...


In the same way operates related documents link. In this case, it will show you links to documents (pdf, swf, doc, etc.) instead to websites. Keep in mind that you can preview documents on the same page, as we saw in search and preview multiple documents easily post.


One final interesting feature is "More results from this site" link, which like the other previously annotated links, shows you the pages related to the search concept you want, but in this case, within the domain www.cnn.com that you had selected.


It's very easy, the best thing to check is that you try....

Friday, May 23, 2008

Search and preview multiple documents easily

At last, you can use Seekky for searching your favorites documents across the web. With the new 1.19 version you can easily search for pdf files or for several file types at a time like Excel Word or Powerpoint files.

As always, you can easily add the multiple document search functionality to your page. Just add a document search form with some fields and you are done...

file type:


You can navigate accross the document in the same browser window, or save the document to your disk for later review...Just use the appropiate option, click on preview plus image for inline viewing or click in title entry link for local file downloading.

There are some special file types like kml and kmz that can viewed in a map. Just search for those file types and click on preview plus image for map previewing of the file.

The screenshot shows an example of a Seekky map previewing a kml file.

You can play with the example here.


Remember that we love your comments, please feedback whatever you like. See you soon seekker...