this makes the little widget,Translation, apple throws in for free seem all the more valuable. apple’s Translation does a pretty good job at translating ~10 of the most common languages. google translate translates ~70 languages -- http://translate.google.com/. there is also a toolbar button for safari called Translate (it's excellent) from side tree software which uses google translate to translate web pages on the fly which can be found at the safari extensions page. similar extensions/add-ons can be found for any browser that does extentions/add-ons. also, there's quite a few translation apps for under $10.00 US at the app store -- many under $2.00 US.

i haven't tried Easy Translator but it must be the best of its kind for the asking price -- maybe for professional use. just wanted to list some free/inexpensive alternatives if your life doesn’t depend on getting it exactly right. you know — if your “chatting” with your Thai “girlfriend.”

There used to be a Windows product called EasyTranslator, by a company called Transparent which appears to be no longer marketed.

Not sure if this person has the legal title to the name, but the screen shot looks similar to the Windows software.

oddly enough I just read about this POS program this morning in MacLife mag, they said basically the same thing as everyone else here, why would you pay for this when theres so many free alternatives ... obviously they didnt know about the unscrupulous nature and history about this developer ... I was more or less surprised that this wasnt a product from the infamous rip-off kings, AlphaOmega

I bought Easy Translator 3.3 for Mac OS X just before Snow Leopard was released for about USD$40

The program worked fine (although don't stake your reputation on it if you are translating English-German...it is not totally accurate pronunciation)

When I upgraded to Snow Leopard and launched Easy translator 3.3 it didn't translate properly. There was a lot of garbled text amongst the translation.

I contacted the developer and he wanted me to spend another USD$38 to upgrade to the compatible version for Snow Leopard.
Most decent software developers give lifetime support for their products especially when they are not cheap.

The developer is basically greedy, he see's a change to the Mac operating system as a opportunity to make more money. Be very wary that when OSX 10.7 comes out this product will become useless.

It was really disappointing dealing with this guy, he is a A$$

I have used easy translator from early version 2 up to the last version 3 it has worked well but will not work under snow leopard ??? cost of up grade mm sorry to expensive so now use google great for reading spanish and other newspapers