KavaSoft releases KavaServices
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 30, 2007 at 2:38pm
KavaSoft has released KavaServices, a utility that adds five commands to the Services menu. KavaServices lets you translate text back and forth between several languages, calculate mathematical expressions, convert currencies and other units, encode special characters into HTML entities, and execute terminal commands.
These commands can replace the selected text in any Mac OS X application, so you don’t need to switch to a different program, or to copy and paste. For example, KavaServices allows you to select a paragraph on a web page and translate it right in your browser. You can also translate text in incoming or outgoing Mail messages. KavaServices translates English, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian.
KavaServices can also convert currencies, as well as area, energy, power, pressure, speed, temperature, time, volume and weight. It can calculate any mathematical expression in any program and can calculate basic arithmetic, trigonometry, arithmetic with scientific units, base conversions, and more.
KavaServices also helps webmasters prepare content for the web by encoding special characters into HTML entities. With a keystroke, KavaServices can convert accented characters, characters in other alphabets and special punctuation marks for display on the web.
KavaServices also offers a gateway to the Terminal in any application. Select a command, hit a keystroke, and the command will be replaced by its result as if you had typed it in the Terminal.
KavaServices costs US$20. A seven-day demo is available.
KavaSoft also announced KavaTunes, a $35 “web jukebox” for iTunes, and released new versions of its Shoebox, iConquer, HyperImage and Curator software
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
