Latest Blog Posts for About Translation

• Studio QA: actual vs. irrelevant differences
  on Jul 8, 2016 in Tools Trados Translation Quality
  SDL Trados Studio seems to be unable to distinguish, in its QA function, between actual markup differnces (e.g., between italics and bold), and trivial differences in the way the markup is written, and that don't affect correctness of a translation.S...
• Quick Tip: How to put the search boxes side by side in Xbench
  on Jul 6, 2016 in Search techniques Tools
  Recently I had to explain to a colleague how to move the search boxes in Xbench so that they appear side by side instead of one over the other, as they do by default.I had arranged mine side by side quite some time ago, but couldn't remember how it i...
• The trouble with Memsource
  on Jun 20, 2016 in CAT Tools
  A major customer of ours recently switched from SDL Trados Studio to Memsource.I don't know why our customer (a translation agency) chose Memsource. Probably a mix of several reasons, including that no software needs to be installed, since Memsource...
• How to increase your chances when contacting prospects: don't boast of obsolete software
  on Jun 13, 2016 in Beginning translators Business Practices
  A couple of years ago I wrote 15 tips on how to increase your chances when contacting translation companies (an article that was later followed by a response from a translation company: How to increase your chances when contacting translati...
• Quick Tips: How to translate a MemSource project using memoQ
  on Jun 8, 2016 in CAT memoQ Tips and Tricks
  Recently a major customer of ours changed from using SDL Trados Studio to using MemSource, an online CAT tool. Our customer probably has good reasons for switching to the new tool, but for a translator accustomed to more powerful CAT tools, using Mem...
• A step back to the past: translating without a CAT
  on Jun 2, 2016 in CAT Search techniques Tips and Tricks Tools
  I'm working on a large translation project. Legal documents, scanned pdf files, not really suitable for OCR (too many stamps, signatures and handwritten text). The documents are repetitive, but without major blocks of identical text, although a few o...
• Top 100 Language Lovers 2016: voting phase has started
  on May 20, 2016 in Blogs On the Web
  The Top 100 Language Lovers 2016 voting phase has started, and both this blog and my Twitter account are among the candidates.This is the ninth year that the competition has been organized. About Translation has been voted among the top 100 a couple...
• How to increase your chances when contacting translation companies - from a translation agency’s point of view
  on May 19, 2016 in Business Practices Translation Companies
  This is a guest post by Aniello Attianese, in response to my post 15 tips on how to increase your chances when contacting translation companies. Aniello Attaniese is a Project Manager at Translation Services 24, a translation company in Lon...
• WordWeb Pro: dictionary and multi-search application
  on May 9, 2016 in Dictionaries Search techniques Tools
  A few posts ago, in my article on Reverso Context, I mentioned several multi-search applications from which Reverso could be called. One of these, the one I use the most, is WordWeb Pro.WordWeb Pro is chiefly a dictionary: in its free version (more a...
• An update to my Reverso Context review
  on May 5, 2016 in Search techniques Tools
  I've received a message from Théo Hoffenberg of Reverso, with some additional information about Reverso Context:Hello Riccardo,Thanks a lot for your review of Reverso Context. I would like to give you some additional comments or info, which you...

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