Here are two recent comments that you might be interested in. First, Jean-Christophe Helary offers some advice on backing up your Mac, with a link to a post on his blog: On Mac 0SX (10.5), the bundled Time Machine utility does hourly incremental backups off all the specified areas on your machine … [Read more...] about Post updates: Mac backups, accented characters in OpenOffice.org
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Methods for backing up your computer data
Years ago, I was visiting friends of friends in Denmark and the inhabitants of the house happened to be very serious geeks. On the dining room wall, they had a sort of shadow box frame, and in it was a computer disk (this was back in the day of five-inch floppies) spray painted gold, with the … [Read more...] about Methods for backing up your computer data
Inserting accented characters in OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is a fantastic office suite for most translators. It's free, it's stable, it's localized into many languages that the proprietary companies will never touch ...there's a lot to love. For a long time, the only feature of OO.o that I've found problematic (other than the fact that its … [Read more...] about Inserting accented characters in OpenOffice.org
Google Translation Center
Thanks to reader Dierk Seeburg for sending the link to an article from the Washington Post about Google's new Google Translation Center service (not yet fully launched, login seems not to work using a regular Google account). The Post article has a link to a yet more interesting article on Google … [Read more...] about Google Translation Center
News from the ATA TCD Conference
The American Translators Association Translation Company Division held its 9th annual conference in Denver this past weekend. This was a high-quality conference, even for those of us who are technically freelancers and not translation companies; the presentations were very well done and it was a … [Read more...] about News from the ATA TCD Conference