#253 of 505 Unbelievably Stupid Web P@ges
If you haven’t already seen this yonks ago, for a bit of banal fun take a mini-break from what you’re doing and try this experiment with Babelfish over at Lost in Translation to see what happens when...
View ArticleThe unsung hero of the US presidential election: the internet
So it turns out that political change is not the only thing that has gripped the USA, and the world along with it. In this US presidential election we’ve seen a big change in how the candidates present...
View ArticleNew Twitter tool: Twitrans
TechCrunch announced today (kudos to @matthewbennett for the link via Twitter) a new free service on Twitter called Twitrans. Twitter users are able to send their tweets to this service and a few...
View ArticlePresentation on social media for translators
You may remember that in May this year, Sarah Dillon and I gave a presentation on web 2.0 and social media for translators at the ITI conference in London, Sarah presenting remotely from Brisbane,...
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Contingency planning for your freelance business
Image courtesy of Compufix Online Céline over at Naked Translations wrote a post yesterday about back-up systems for freelancers, and invited others to share how they guard their businesses against...
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Guest post: an introduction to SEO
Today I’m publishing this guest post by Rob Hammond, Account Director for SEO at OMD, who gives some basic pointers on Search Engine Optimisation for translators. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) deals...
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The UK election seen through social media
Back in November 2008 (was it really that long ago?) I wrote a post on how astute use of the internet and social media had a helping hand in getting Barack Obama to the White House. While the crucial...
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3-minute review of Swordfish II CAT tool
Over the past 6 months or so I’ve experimented with the Swordfish II Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) program; this post is a brief walkthrough of its main features. Flexibility: The main...
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Switching my main computer from PC to Mac
Image courtesy of All Systems Go Computer Consulting Last month I realised that my 3-year old desktop computer needed a serious upgrade; although it had 4 GB of RAM multitasking was becoming gradually...
View ArticleSwitching from a PC to a Mac: practical tips
This post follows up a post in April (gosh, really?) on switching my main PC to a Mac. A few people got in touch to say they were considering doing the same thing, so I hope I can offer some tips to...
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