Aside from identifying songs with Shazam and using the 'Hey Siri' feature while driving, Apple's personal assistant isn't something I regularly use on my iPhone.
For general searches or queries, I just use a simple Google search. Granted, it isn't as seamless as holding down my Home button to activate Siri, but it can be a pretty fast process if you place a Google Search bar widget directly on your iPhone's home screen, à la Google Nexus devices.
In order for this tweak to work, make sure you've jailbroken your device. Also, you will need to have the Google Search app from the iOS App Store installed, which is what the tweak uses. (Sorry, no Safari support, folks.)
Some web browsers have the ability to set a primary search engine. One noticeable feature of a primary search engine is the built-in search box, which is beneficial because it allows you to type in a search without actually visiting the search engine's website. As of 2010, Google owns 90 percent of the market share for search engines. Therefore, you may want to make Google your default or primary search engine.
Internet Explorer 8Step 1Restore Google Search Bar Android
Locate the search box in Internet Explorer. This is located in the upper-right corner of the program.
Step 2
Click the 'Down' arrow in the search box. This is located next to the magnifying glass icon.
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Step 3
Select 'Manage Search Providers' after you've clicked the down arrow.
Step 4
Select 'Google' from the list of search providers and click 'Set as default.' Click 'OK' to save your settings. If Google isn't listed in the initial list of search providers, continue to the next step.
Click 'Find more search providers' in the 'Manage search providers' window. Enter 'Google' in the search box and click 'Install search provider.' Click the check box next to 'Make this my default search provider' in the confirmation box that appears. Finally, click 'Add' to complete the process.
FirefoxStep 1
Locate the search box in the upper-right corner of Firefox.
Step 2
Click on the arrow located on the left side of the search box. A list of possible search engines appears.
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Select 'Google' from the list. You have now set Google as your primary search engine.
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Does the idea of a “click on – click off” translation bar sound useful? Then you will definitely want to take a look at the Google Translation Bar Bookmarklet.
The Translation Bar
For our example we decided to add the bookmarklet to SeaMonkey. To add it to your favorite browser simply drag the bookmarklet to your browser’s “Bookmarks Toolbar”.
Clicking on the bookmarklet will open the Google Translation Bar. The toolbar displays with a default of “Translate to English” and you can “Turn off Detect Language translation” if desired. Notice that you can easily close the toolbar using the small “x” at the end of the right side if you no longer need it active.
Translating English to a Different Language
For our first test we decided to translate an English webpage into a different language (Korean). Click on the small “Arrow Button” to access the drop-down menu and select the desired language.
Once you have chosen the language that you would like to translate the webpage into click on the “Translate Button”…
And within a few moments the webpage translation will be finished up. Notice that you can “revert” back to the original language version if desired.
Translating a Different Language to English
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For the second part of our test we decided to translate a Japanese webpage into English…
As before the toolbar displayed with English as the “Translate To” language default when we clicked on the bookmarklet.
How to convert windows 10 enterprise evaluation to enterprise. Another webpage translated and ready to read through. Obviously webpage elements such as Flash will not be translated but that is ok…
Conclusion
If you have been looking for an extremely convenient way to translate webpages on demand, then you will definitely want to add this bookmarklet to your favorite browser.
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