Technology

In the "small but mighty developments" department, the FR<>EN translator's friend, the Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique now offers a search box for your browser toolbar. It works in Firefox 2.0 or IE 7.0, and you have to select whether you want to add the FR>EN or the EN>FR box. And … [Read more...] about Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique for your toolbar

If you run OpenOffice.org and/or Linux and are getting impatient while waiting for the cross-platform standalone version of Wordfast, you might want to take a look at Anaphraseus, previously called Open Wordfast. Anaphraseus is a translation tool that works from within OpenOffice.org and uses a … [Read more...] about Anaphraseus: a free TenT that works within OpenOffice.org

Unscientific evidence suggests that more and more translators are using BlackBerries, Treos and other types of wireless e-mail devices. Whereas these devices used to be (say until a few years ago) nearly absent from translation-related events, half of the attendees at a recent Colorado Translators … [Read more...] about Do you have or want a wireless e-mail device?

This is one of those technology questions that a) is critical and b) has no hard-and-fast answer. In earlier times, processor speed doubled approximately every 18 months, but this is not universally true anymore. So, should you keep the old computer until you either max out the hard drive or it … [Read more...] about How often should you replace your computer?

Bill Hibbert just sent an additional update about his macro for inserting accented characters in OpenOffice.org. Here it is! I've made a small change to the macro and its documentation that I never bothered with before because I didn't think anyone was interested. There has been a known problem … [Read more...] about Update 2: Accented characters in OpenOffice.org