Changes the timezone to China (+8)

If you use mysql database, you will also need to use

mysql_query("SET time_zone = '+8:00'");

to change the the timezone of mysql database.

Apache server provides a .htaccess file using which you can use to redirect URLs. For example, if you want to redirect all visitors to http://dallascao.com/cn/ to http://dallascao.com/en/, you can open the .htaccess file at the root, and then input:

RewriteRule ^cn\/?$ en\/

Translating the code in English, it means “Please replace ‘^cn\/?$’ with ‘en/’”. “^cn\/?$” is a regular expression, in which:

“^” matches the beginning of a string.
“$” matches the end.
“\” means “/” following it stands for “/” itself, not part of the grammar.
“?” means there can be one “/” or no “/”

So “^cn\/?$” matches two strings: “cn/” or “cn”. When visitors visit http://dallascao.com/cn/ (end with a slash) or http://dallascao.com/cn (end with no slash), they are redirected to http://dallascao.com/en/

Task two:

If you want to redirect all visitors to the root of http://dallascao.com/ to http://dallascao.com/en/, I can use this:

RewriteRule ^$ en\/

“^$” matches an empty string, meaning the root.

Task three:

Inputting the following code into the .htaccess of http://gt4t.net/, all visitors to http://gt4t.net/anything/ to http://gt4t.net/en/anything/. For example, visitors to http://gt4t.net/downloads/ will be redirected to http://gt4t.net/en/downloads.

RewriteRule ^(.*?)\/?$ \/en\/$1

“^(.*?)\/?$” means anything that either ends with one “/” or no “/”. In the second part, “\/en\/$1″, “$1″ stands for the 1st bracketed element in the previous string “^(.*?)\/?$” (in this case, the only bracketed element.). And it means replacing “ANYTHING” ending with “/” or no “/” with “/en/ANYTHING/”

By the way, if you want your redirection to be hidden, you can add the following option to the beginng .

Options +FollowSymLinks

In the example above, your visitors to http://gt4t.net/downloads is redirected to http://gt4t.net/gt4t_en/downloads/ but http://gt4t.net/downloads is still shown in the address bar.

Finally, here is is the complete .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^gt4t.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.gt4t.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*?)\/?$ \/gt4t_en\/$1 [L]

Confused? Contact me if you have such a need. I will be happy to help you.

Translating a loooong list of country names, for example, can be very tiring and time-consuming. With GT4T, you just need to hit the shortcut and the names will be translated and correctly typed for you automatically.

GT4T can be used as a dictionary integrated into your applications.

Let’s face it. We need to check the on-line dictionaries quite often. When checking on-line dictionaries and you are tired of typing, do you copy the source word and paste it into a dictionary and then paste the translation back? With GT4T, you ONLY need to hit the shortcut and then the source word is replaced by its translation. You don’t even need to switch between windows!

Surprise!

At least until now, no one believes machine translation can be as good as human translation. But more often than you think, Google Translate can surprise you. Especially when you are stuck and your mind goes blank, hit the shortcut to see what Google Translate can provide. I won’t surprised if you find that answers from Google Translate can be really awesome.。

The idea of GT4T is to bring Google Translate to your fingertip and everything is just one hot key away. With GT4T, to use Google Translate, you no longer need to leave your document, open your browser, navigate to Google Translate website… just hit the hot key, and the translation is automatically typed into our document.

Still not sure? Check out this (testimonials page) and this (a discussion at proz.com) to see what other users have said about GT4T.

DISABLE() ;By RealityRipple at http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-258725.html
{
  WinGet, id, ID, A
  menu:=DllCall("user32\GetSystemMenu","UInt",id,"UInt",0)
  DllCall("user32\DeleteMenu","UInt",menu,"UInt",0xF060,"UInt",0x0)
  WinGetPos,x,y,w,h,ahk_id %id%
  WinMove,ahk_id %id%,,%x%,%y%,%w%,% h-1
  WinMove,ahk_id %id%,,%x%,%y%,%w%,% h+1
}

Then insert DISABLE() after GUI, show command to call the function.

It is especially useful when you want to copy the content of webpage to your application, e.g. copying the content of a table on a webpage to Excel.

How to use:

Select some text and press CTRL+C, press down CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste the text to any text-based application, e.g. Microsoft Word.

You may also click on the  icon at your system tray to convert the clipboard into plain text and use the usual CTRL+V paste command to paste it.

PlainText is freeware. Please also check out Google Translate for Translators , a tool that seamlessly integrates Google Translate to Trados, Word and all text applications.

PlainText is developed with Autohotkeys:

GD4Word is a Word Macro and it only works inside Microsoft Word.

GD4Word is a free version of Google Translate for Translators, a program that seriously increases translation speed by adding Google Translate to TRADOS, Word and all text applications.

Click to download the installer that will automatically adds CTRL+ALT+D to your Word.

In case you want to do the coding yourself,

In Word 2003 and under,

Go to Tools–>Macros—>Visual Basic

Right click on “Normal”, and choose “Insert”—>”Module”

Paste the following code to the newly inserted module.

'code start

Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
 
Sub Gdictionary()
 
Dim SLan As String
Dim TLan As String
Dim SText As String
Dim Gurl As String
 
SLan = "en"
TLan = "zh-CN"
SText = VBA.Trim(VBA.Replace(Selection.Text, Chr(13), ""))
 
Gurl = "http://www.google.com/dictionary?langpair=" + SLan + "|" + TLan + "&q=" + SText + "&hl=en&aq=f"
 
Debug.Print Gurl
 
ShellExecute 0&, vbNullString, Gurl, vbNullString, vbNullString, vbNormalFocus
 
End Sub
 
'code end

Then you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the macro: Gdictionary().

This code works when the source language uses ASCII characters only. If you want to make it work with pairs like Chinese to English, you will need to utf-8 encode your source text string.

“en”, “zh-CN” are shortcodes for the source language and the target language. You need to change them to your pair.

Google language short codes:

auto=Auto Detect,af=Afrikaans,sq=Albanian,ar=Arabic,be=Belarusian,bg=Bulgarian,ca=Catalan,zh-CN=Chinese (Simplified),zh-TW=Chinese (Traditional),hr=Croatian,cs=Czech,da=Danish,nl=Dutch,en=English,et=Estonian,tl=Filipino,fi=Finnis h,fr=French,gl=Galician,de=German,el=Greek,iw=Hebrew,hi=Hindi,hu=Hungarian,is=Icelandic,id=Indonesia n,ga=Irish,it=Italian,ja=Japanese,ko=Korean,lv=Latvian,lt=Lithuanian,mk=Macedonian,ms=Malay,mt=Malte se,no=Norwegian,fa=Persian,pl=Polish,pt=Portuguese,ro=Romanian,ru=Russian,sr=Serbian,sk=Slovak,sl=Sl ovenian,es=Spanish,sw=Swahili,sv=Swedish,th=Thai,tr=Turkish,uk=Ukrainian,vi=Vietnamese,cy=Welsh,yi=Y iddish