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Language Alchemist - History

All versions at a glance.


The Language Alchemist looks on a long tradition. In June 2004 the version 1.0 was released and the current version is 2.5.6.

Learn here, how Language Alchemist has developed since June 2004.

Version 2.5.6 - August 21, 2008
This update integrates jaladas new registration service and also a larger vocabulary.

Version 2.5.5 - August 08, 2008
This release provides significant bug fixes that solve issues with the contextual menu plug-in of Language Alchemist.

Version 2.5.4 - July 01, 2008
Beside an updated vocabulary this version covers obvious improvements in performance.

Version 2.5.3 - June 02, 2008
This update includes specific application fixes, compatibility updates and new help pages in French. Also the vocabulary increased in volume again.

Version 2.5.2 - May 02, 2008
Thanks to numerous word suggestions the vocabulary was improved clearly. Beyond that this version has an optimized automatic target language detection.

Version 2.5.1 - April 01, 2008
Besides some detail improvements the Language Alchemist has new a French user interface.

Version 2.5.0 - March 02, 2008
This version offers not only an updated vocabulary, but has now also a configurable Update-Service, which keeps you comfortable on the newest release.

Version 2.4.3 - December 11, 2007
The 2.4.3 Update is recommended for all Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Users. This update includes general application fixes, as well as specific fixes or compatibility updates.

Version 2.4.2 - November 09, 2007
Integration of stemmer algorithms for English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish. Also integration of new Danish user interface, many thanks to Preben Nielsen.

Version 2.4.1 - July 28, 2007
The 2.4.1 Update is recommended for all Intel-based Macs. This update includes general application fixes, as well as specific fixes or compatibility updates.

Version 2.4 - July 14, 2007
The user interface of the Language Alchemist 2.4 is completely new and now still more user friendly and still more powerful. Beyond that the vocabulary is extended again and a lot of new languages are integrated. The Language Alchemist includes now 26 languages, namely English, German, Spanish, French, Latin, Esperanto, Czech, Greek, Danish, Africa to, Albanian, Dutch, Faeroes, Finnish, Icelandic, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Thai, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Swahili, Turkish and Polish.

Version 2.3 - December 06, 2006
Apart from a obvious increase of the performance the Language Alchemist is extended by four further languages. New are Latin, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

Version 2.2 - April 05, 2006
The Language Alchemist is released as a Universal Binary and runs now natively on both PowerPC and Intel processors. Additionally the vocabulary becomes still larger.

Version 2.1 - October 06, 2005
Unfortunately some applications do not meet the Apple interface specification for contextual menu extensions. If an application does not meet these specifications it can happen that contextual menu extension causes an error or an application just quits. To use the affected application further on without problems, the Language Alchemist now can be turned off specifically for an application. You can also disable the plug-in for all applications.

Further more the vocabulary is extended clearly.

Version 2.0 - August 25, 2005
The Language Alchemist is reengineered in substantial parts and offers in Version 2.0 among other things the following innovations:

1. A plug-in for standard Mac application is added. The plug-in extends the contextual menu of nearly any standard Mac applications by the item “Translate selected words”. Thus you can now start translations straight out of your application by just selecting the desired words and by mouse-clicking and each additional inputs are omitted.

2. Further more the Language Alchemist 2.0 includes a new help system, so that you can find answers to your questions much faster.

Version 1.5 - May 16, 2005
Language Alchemist has been modified to be fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Version 1.4 - March 10, 2005
Apart from numerous small adjustments the Language Alchemist now has an automatic source language detecting. Thus you get the possibility of translating words from different languages without selecting the source language every time again.

Version 1.3 - January 03, 2005
The Language Alchemist is extended by further languages. New are Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.

Version 1.2 - October 15, 2004
The usability becomes still more comfortable by a lot of detail improvements. Beyond that the vocabulary of French and Spanish was extended clearly. The entire vocabulary covers now more than 300,000 words.

Version 1.1 - August 15, 2004
The Language Alchemist is now multilingual and supports 5 languages, namely Esperanto, German, English, French and Spanish.

Version 1.0 - June 20, 2004
The first official version of the Language Alchemist is released.




(1) A standard Mac application means here a program for Macintosh computer that is full compatible with the Apple specification for contextual menu extensions.


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