Press Release: Bad Dog Apps Ships BdTranslator for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch

by Eric March on August 9, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Not to be outdone by Alta Vida, it seems that Canadian outfit Bad Dog Apps has just made available their own language travel companion, and this one supports more or less full two-way translation for 16 languages in addition to containing 8 languages’ worth of common phrases.  (No Monty Python Hungarian Phrasebook sketch jokes here; once is enough.)  But don’t take my word for it, here are their own words — in English:

Vancouver, BC Canada – Bad Dog Apps, is a Mac OS X Software house with over 10 years experience with the Mac OS X and precursor NeXTStep/OpenStep technologies, today are announcing the availability of BdTranslator for the iPhone on Apple’s App Store and extend our already shipping productivity menu bar based applications BdContacts, BdCalendar and BdTranslator, too include our first of many new iPhone applications.

BdTranslator is the perfect companion utility for all your holiday and business trips abroad. Translate your own sentences or modify one of the 250 stored common sentences that are categorized for quick browsing and searching. In addition you can store any translation for future use by creating your own favorites list.

BdTranslator works in both portrait and landscape mode and includes a translation viewer to easily show the translation to someone in large text. Using the custom settings you can adjust font sizes for both text and tables, which make seeing your translations a snap, even without your glasses.

Easy navigation includes intelligent one touch translations for common sentences and favorite phrases. This software includes features that allow the user to swap languages and change the in or out translation languages. BdTranslator can work natively in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

BdTranslator supports 16 languages for two way translation:
English, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.

Note: Warning a WiFi or Cell 3G connection is required to run BdTranslator, also the Japanese and Greek languages have some restrictions on their language translations.

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Bad Dog Applications, Inc. is located in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics, founded in 2007. Our mission is to develop low cost, easy to use, 100% Macintosh OS X native applications that are a powerful but easy to use. All our applications are built using 100% Cocoa and Objective-C and leverages the built-in power of Mac OS X10.5 (Leopard) to give you access to the latest technologies available from OS X, like iCal and Address Book full access and Core Data SQL storage. For further information please contact Alan Cook.

Granted, you need some kind of network connection for this to function, be it WiFi, EDGE or 3G, which is one area the aforementioned Babelingo might work better in some situations (particularly if you are a Touch owner), but for those that want a more robust, customizable solution for when simple, common phrases just don’t cover it, Bad Dog seems to have your number.

(Note: The clickable screenshot at the top of this article is just me having a bit of fun.  It does not contain Esperanto translation.  I’ll leave that to Rimmer.)

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