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The Tool Box Journal Archives

Welcome to the Tool Box Journal Archives, the complete collection of Premium editions of the Tool Box Journal going back to December 2007.
  • February 21, 2023 - Edition 344
    • Handing over the reins to Slator, getting out of a business slump, Cymo Note, Computer Intelligence vs. actual intelligence, how do translators use MT, Ronald Knox and translators losing their jobs in the 1950ies
  • December 21, 2022 - Edition 343
    • Rest!, goalsetting, Sketch Engine, translation grades 
  • November 23, 2022 - Edition 342
    • Revisiting the Innovation in Translation Summit, Metalinguist, tinnitus and hyperacusis, Shiny Object Syndrome, Zoom and interpreters 
  • October 7, 2022 - Edition 341
    • Review of Babel , Memsource becomes Phrase, planning for professional gatherings, transcription tools, tools around MT 
  • September 16, 2022 - Edition 340
    • Fahrenheit 451, translation grades, tips to pass the EU's interpreting accreditation, planning for large projects, ️AI and art, DictionaryExchange 
  • July 22, 2022 - Edition 339
    • dictionaries, WIPO Pearl API, how to stop playing small, best places to find interpreting practice speeches, ASAP Utilities, the long shadow of translation technology
  • June 15, 2022 - Edition 338
    • Trados, job opportunities via inclusive language, AI-powered tools for editing, breaking old habits, Firefox's MT 
  • May 13, 2022 - Edition 337
    • Paralela, dealing with burnout, setting up for video conferences, LocWorld Africa  
  • April 16, 2022 - Edition 336
    • Fuzzy repairs in XTM, helping Ukraine, digitizing glossaries, problems with perfectionism, MS Translator and Google Translate, learning new language on TiPY 
  • March 15, 2022 - Edition 335
    • response from Ukrainian tool developers to Russian invasion, using VPNs, Christianity Today article, how to keep working when the ground is shifting
  • February 18, 2022 - Edition 334
    • tips for young translators, SAP Translation Hub, how to make time for business chores, which iPad is best for interpreting?, rebuttal to the idea that translators will be obsolete (take 2), Crowdin, Bing lanuage and region specific queries
  • January 14, 2022 - Edition 333
    • GT4T's File Translator, how to use a tablet for consecutive note-taking, 6 ways to save time, rebuttal to the idea that translators will be obsolete, Translators (noun, plural): Creative people who know how to use technology and sell processes
  • December 16, 2021 - Edition 332
    • things to be thankful for, BABADADA, the value of your time, top five video tips for sign language interpreters, CLEAR Global/Tech/Insights
  • November 15, 2021 - Edition 331
    • speech recognition in Windows 11, SightConsec, task workout routine for slow days, post-editing vs. the many other ways to work with machine translation -- the developers' view
  • October 16, 2021 - Edition 330
    • Learning is the key to growth, What happened at the Innovation in Translation Summit and the technology behind it, Ooona, Custom.MT, Encountering Bare-Bones Christianity, translator track at LocWorld
  • September 15, 2021 - Edition 329
    • Innovation in Translation Summit, OBS Studio, Intento for translators, making the most out of conference time, Wordfast Anywhere goes TMS, Dictionary Exchange
  • August 14, 2021 - Edition 328
    • taking care of children, habits, creating professional backgrounds, multilingual video for Characters with Character
  • July 12, 2021 - Edition 327
    • right choice of headsets, regex in memoQ, ModernMT, time awareness
  • June 15, 2021 - Edition 326
    • Dorothee Racette's debut as a columnist, right choice of headphones, virtualizing mobile displays, Characters with Character (the video), new URL shortener link
  • May 14, 2021 - Edition 325
    • SEO, GlobalSaké, tablets, diversification, Raised by Wolves
  • April 27, 2021 - Edition 324
    • OPUS MT/CAT, GoReact, translate5 Consortium, FTP and Windows Clipboard
  • March 18, 2021 - Edition 323
    • MT and the weather, privacy and generic MT systems, the UN Digital Repository, Storage Sense, Characters with Character -- 50 Ways to Rekindle Your Love Affair with Language
  • February 16, 2021 - Edition 322
    • Finger acrobatics, multilingual Wikipedia, business moves by Across, kleptomaniac translators, practicing consec interpreting
  • January 18, 2021 - Edition 321
    • Social media for translators, LanguageTools, TAUS Data Marketplace, what's the Tool Box Journal's role
  • December 19, 2020 - Edition 320
    • memoQ, Trados Studio, appifying websites, Across
  • December 2, 2020 - Edition 319
    • Conversation with Samuekl Läubli and Nico Herbig about the future of translation tools, looking sharp on video calls, disappointments with TAUS, MT usage data
  • October 30, 2020 - Edition 318
    • Inuktitut, hoping for no news, new pricing models, Across' HeyTranslator, XTM's Inter-Language Vector Space, AI and interpreting, Tb-Scout, Prospector
  • October 7, 2020 - Edition 317
    • Trados Studio review, Interpreting technology, women and machine translation
  • September 6, 2020 - Edition 316
    • librarians and translators, deliberations on the premium market, Alexander Drechsel and Josh Goldsmith become the tech-savvy interpreters, International Translation Day, TBX 3
  • July 28, 2020 - Edition 315
    • literary translators vs. technical translators, translate5, memoQ, machine-in-the-loop,  MultiLingual Summer Series
  • June 25, 2020 - Edition 314
    • Black Lives Matter and the world of translation, relationships, the future of project managers, SDL Trados 2021, TAUS Marketplace, DeepL
  • June 1, 2020 - Edition 313
    • Barry Slaughter Olsen's farewell, SDL Neural Machine Translation, Terminology Work - Best Practices, innovative approaches to translation
  • May 4, 2020 - Edition 312
    • ModelFront, Bilingual Web Search, translation metaphors, job market, Shakespeare coding
  • April 6, 2020 - Edition 311
    • COVID-19 responses, GT4T File Translator, animation in Windows 10, Microsoft Whiteboard, DeepL, Goldpan
  • March 14, 2020 - Edition 310
    • "Untranslatability," language the master  recycler, Damián Santilli  on subtitling tools, how to protect from a computercalypse
  • February 11, 2020 - Edition 309
    • Memsource Translate, Smartcat, goTranslation, new version of the Translator's Tool Box ebook
  • January 13, 2020 - Edition 308
    • ModernMT, Intento, Translator Tools
  • December 7, 2019 - Edition 307
    • looking back at the decade in interpreting technology, looking at 2020 in translation (technology), talking to journalists, Termsoup, MS Word Rewrite   
  • November 5, 2019 - Edition 306
    • creative ways of using MT, the conundrum of having to make money with MT, TextUnited, SYSTRAN, Dictionary Exchange, Yahoo Groups  
  • October 5, 2019 - Edition 305
    • DeepLcom app vs.  GT4T, taking screenshots in Windows, Google Translator Toolkit's demise, International Translation Day
  • September 6, 2019 - Edition 304
    • Naver Papago, how MS Word can help you focus, 100 years of interpreting,  tips & tricks for SDL Trados Studio, "Through the Client's Eyes: How to Make Your Translations Visible"
  • August 15, 2019 - Edition 303
    • Juliet Macan on the industrial revolution of translation, WIPO Pearl, translators and librarians, Andreas Rodemann with tips & tricks for Across   
  • July 16, 2019 - Edition 302
    • Gábor Ugray on  translating a dictionary, Angelika Zerfaß with tips & tricks for memoQ, Memsource's mobile app for translators, Barry Olsen's phenomenal videos about interpreters
  • June 14, 2019 - Edition 301
    • Artificial Intelligence?, Post-editing?, Magic with the WinKey, digital platforms for interpretation practice, a Cyrillic character you've never seen 
  • May 23, 2019 - Edition 300
    • SDL BaccS, BeLazy, remote simultaneous interpretation, Google Translatotron, Translation Insights and Perspectives (tips.translation.bible)  
  • April 22, 2019 - Edition 299
    • Translation Commons, Is NMT "translation"?, IntelliWebSearch,  SDL Trados  subtitle editor, Mozilla localization, ongoing conversation with Félix do Carmo  about neural machine translation  
  • March 27, 2019 - Edition 298
    • SDL Language Cloud with linguistic term search, Term Morphology Editor for memoQ and Memsource, KOSS CS300-USB Headset, Using Neural Machine Translation Beyond Post-Editing -- A Conversation with Félix do Carmo
  • February 14, 2019 - Edition 297
    • TAUS, metadata, Across, ModernMT  
  • January 21, 2019 - Edition 296
    • Question: What are the areas in which you see artificial intelligence playing a role in translation technology? Answers by AIT, Atril, Intento, GT4T, KantanMT, Lilt, MateCat, memoQ, Memsource, Plunet, SDL, Smartcat, Star, Wordfast, Xillio; effects of AI on interpreting
  • December 23, 2018 - Edition 295
    • Looking back at 2018: the rise of web-based translation environment tools, changes in privacy legislation and its impact, multitude of MT services, diversity in the world of translation, how technology shapes the services we offer, voice recognition, community; interpreting tech 
  • December 3, 2018 - Edition 294
    • dictionaries, translation pricing, AI to shape translation technology, The Webaround, voice recognition, ALLCAPS, Kevrenn DFR, IATE, GT4T, TransTech wiki webinar
  • October 33, 2018 - Edition 293
    • Lilt, Xillio, Nucleus, SCATE project, remote interpreting, "social contract with the world"
  • September 28, 2018 - Edition 292
    • lack of technology for many languages, CSA's "augmented translation," cloud-based interpreting technologies, Memsource's MTQE
  • September 7, 2018 - Edition 291
    • dictionary exchange, Similis, Intento, SDL and morphology, ComPair, Devanagari-based OCR, tauyou
  • August 13, 2018 - Edition 290
    • SDL MultiTrans, memoQ voice recognition, video preview, Unicode Code Converter, Indian OCR, Google's Smart Compose
  • July 16, 2018 - Edition 289
    • TranslationTalk Twitter account, SDL Trados Studio 2019, data overload, Keyman, writing on paper
  • June 15, 2018 - Edition 288
    • Guest article by Sharon O'Brien, how technical are we?, Oyraa, Google listens after all, Ninite, data privacy, how a translation might have killed 20 million people
  • May 16, 2018 - Edition 287
    • Translation technology hyperbole, interview with Lilt's Spence Green, indispensable tools for Windows computers, pivot languages in MT, EAMT, Translation Matters, Boostlingo, InterpretBank, KUDO, Linguali, ZipDx
  • April 20, 2018 - Edition 286
    • What are technical freelance translators?, AI and language comprehension, outsourcing for technical services, ContentQuo, Tencent's automatic interpreting fiasco
  • March 30, 2018 - Edition 285
    • Microsoft Translator (Hub), DeepL,Google Translate, data privacy and confidentiality, GDPR,  GT4T, XTM Cloud, Wordfast, Nuheara IQBuds, SDL/Nuance, PEMT,  Language Technology Wiki
  • February 17, 2018 - Edition 284
    • technological competency, Word and Excel shortcuts, translation tools infographic, apps languages, computer use and translators, Okapi Framework
  • January 24, 2018 - Edition 283
    • Memsource, AI, Lingotek, investor-driven tech development, Lingmo Translate One2One Earpiece, views of the world of translation
  • December 22, 2017 - Edition 282
    • Translation Matters, translators' blogs, memoQ 8.3, iLangL, interpreting highlights 2017, Worx, ExactSpent, DeepL, xl8.link, Language Technology Wiki
  • November 24, 2017 - Edition 281
    • Language Technology Wiki , adaptive neural MT, Lilt, KantanMT, Intento, ModernMT, Matecat, The Language of Localization, Smartcat, Okapi
  • October 28, 2017 - Edition 280
    • Masking data for MT, CafeTran, GT4T, DeepL, extracting terms, Prospector, Portage
  • October 8, 2017 - Edition 279
    • memoQ 8.2, Wordfast Pro 4/Classic, WIPO MT, Google MT, interpreting gizmos, xl8.link URL shortener 
  • September 8, 2017 - Edition 278
    • #freelancexl8tech, DeepL, zip files, 4-legged stool of remote interpreting, Google Translate as NMT+SMT, Smartling's Quality Confidence Score 
  • August 2, 2017 - Edition 277
    • Service Release for SDL Trados 2017, fixing TMX files, devils is in the details with interpreting technology, reMarkable, Pacemaker 
  • July 11, 2017 - Edition 276
    • Sketch Engine, Linguali, SDL Trados/Memsource/XTM apps, MS Dictate, creative use of different technologies at our disposal 
  • June 13, 2017 - Edition 275
    • Translation Office 3000, Doodles, Homemade Neural MT, using MT, Bing Translator in statistical and neural MT, teaching interpretation, Google Localization Essentials 
  • May 20, 2017 - Edition 274
    • MT perspectives, word processing in translation environment tools, WIPO Pearl, managment tool for translators, BaacS, QuaHill, LSP.expert, Genius Scan, Windows 10 Night Light
  • April 17, 2017 - Edition 273
    • SDL sues Lilt, Google's and Microsofts's MT, ZipDX, TMXMall, Twitter as RSS feed, lawyers/doctors/translators
  • March 25, 2017 - Edition 272
    • Demise of PDF tools, Office 365 "Editor," ProZ certification/API, Bostlingo, power of social media, Image Resizer for Windows, teaching vocabulary on Swype
  • February 20, 2017 - Edition 271
    • SDL GroupShare, profitable STAR machine translation, Win Explorer expertise, Treaty Times 30, problems with XLIFF, converting date/time formats with Search & Replace in MS Word, committee formed for advances in translation technology
  • January 21, 2017 - Edition 270
    • Establishment of translation technology wiki, TQAuditor, SCATE, CAT for Grad, Headvox, Iceni PDF Editor, user conferences by various tool vendors, celebrating the translator
  • December 23, 2016 - Edition 269
    • Translation technology at Translation without Borders, Wordfinder, compensation of translators, Google neural machine translation API
  • December 2, 2016 - Edition 268
    • Google Neural MT, AlignFactory, Trados upLIFT, Lilt's neural morphology, interpreting MS, TAUS
  • November 2, 2016 - Edition 267
    • Trados Studio 2017's upLIFT, Lilt's Quote Builder, BaacS for Windows, Linguali
  • October 8, 2016 - Edition 266
    • Various degree of file format support by different translation environment tools (incl. XML suport by MateCat, SmartCAT, Lilt, XTM, Wordbee, Trados Studio, memoQ, Déjà Vu), Xbench, copying and pasting in MS Word, MateCat's automatic tags
  • September 20, 2016 - Edition 265
    • Project management tools: Protemos, BaccS, QuaHill; Memsource,  Iceni PDF, Pangeanic ElasticTM, technology for training interpreters online, Terry Oliver 
  • August 8, 2016 - Edition 264
    • Office 365/2016, state of development of translation environment tools, subscription-based pricing for software, Iceni Infix PDF Editor, Localization Training, Intrakit
  • July 12, 2016 - Edition 263
    • Redefining translation resources, SDL Adaptive MT, Trados Online Editor, Fair Trade Translation
  • June 18, 2016 - Edition 262
    • Lilt, neural machine translation, Hieronymic Oath, Memsource, decline in MT use
  • May 13, 2016 - Edition 261
    • TM-Town, SanTrans, Fluid, RM-Source, 4Visions, Textomate, Wazzo,  MultiQA, FairTradeTranslation, Sovee, CafeTran, VoiceBoxer, open source development
  • April 18, 2016 - Edition 260
    • Copy-editors and translators, PerfectIt, Lingofy, modifying keyboards in Windows 10, taking part in development work, MyDutchPal, Corinne MacKay's "How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator," interpreting in virtual meetings
  • March 25, 2016 - Edition 259
    • memoQ and Trados, Trados MT pugin, InterLink Pro, Internet of Things or ABBYY meets Xerox, SmartCAT, OmegaT, Word macros
  • February 29, 2016 - Edition 258
    • Slator, Lilt, incognito in Word, LocJAM, voice recognition in 40+ languages, Magic Search, advanced searches in Google Images, ZipDX, OmegaT, TransTools, New Zealand's Treaty Times 30 project
  • January 18, 2016 - Edition 257
    • Fluency, SDL OpenExchange, Memsource, internet connections, renaming files, commenting on files, using the 'Send to' command
  • December 21, 2015 - Edition 256
    • Across 6.3, crossMarket, iLangL's Generic Content Provider, Lilt, Windows libraries, Interprefy
  • November 28, 2015 - Edition 255
    • Lilt, Kilgray's Language Terminal and Trados Studio plugin, WebRTC, migration to Linux
  • November 4, 2015 - Edition 254
    • Tilde Terminology plugin for Trados Studio, Fair Trade Translation, Slate Desktop, USB headsets for remote interpreting, Nordic Translation Industry Forum, Out of Office Newsletter, Mats Linder's Trados manual
  • September 28, 2015 - Edition 253
    • Introduction of new column: "The Tech-Savvy Interpreter," Wordfast Pro 4, SmartCAT, XTM 9, image-based PDFs
  • September 4, 2015 - Edition 252
    • Windows 10 from a language worker's perspective
  • August 1, 2015 - Edition 251
    • Māori mistranslations, IntelliWebSearch 5, translation environment tools and Windows 10, RM-Source, talking with the media about machine translation
  • July 17, 2015 - Edition 250
    • How many monitors do translators use and why that is important, being visible, history of translation technology, Star's product offering (MindReader, Star Moses, CLM, FormatChecker), new ways to deal with machine translation
  • June 11, 2015 - Edition 249
    • Tony Soprano, teaching journalists, Next Big Thing - the results, Trados Studio 2015, end of CopyFlow, eLUNa, editing environments
  • May 17, 2015 - Edition 248
    • Questions to translation technology developers, memoQ 2015, tips & tricks with computer maintenance (Belarc Advisor, Secunia PSI, Ccleaner, Problem Steps Recorder), translation v. rocket science
  • April 27, 2015 - Edition 247
    • Location-appropriate signage, checking back with last year's promises of tool developers (Déjà Vu, memoQ, Memsource, SDL Trados Studio, Wordbee, Wordfast, XTM)
  • March 21, 2015 - Edition 246
    • Voice recognition through Swype, sex in translation, SDL GroupShare Cloud, XBench, Textomate, dictionaries and translation environment
  • February 25, 2015 - Edition 245
    • Expertise and opportunities, Linguee, memoQ v. Trados, Quark, TM-Town, Cafetran, Across, locjam.org, 21 Free Tools & Utilities for Translators, glossary conversion tools
  • January 17, 2015 - Edition 244
    • Voice recognition, memoQ 2014 R2, data sharing of Google Translate and Microsoft Translator
  • December 31, 2014 - Edition 243
    • Remarkables of the past year: Free tools for freelance translators, MT is actually being used, new MT concepts, the cloud has gone mainstream for translators, Smartling, SDL's app store, connected translation technology
  • November 22, 2014 - Edition 242
    • MateCat, new approaches to MT, how to choose translation technology, Trados apps/SP2, SanTrans
  • October 25, 2014 - Edition 241
    • ATA Buddies, IATE, Twitter tricks, Clay Tablet, CMS connectors, Wordbee, Beebox
  • October 8, 2014 - Edition 240
    • MT/TM/TB use among translators, Memsource, community, Smartling, Trados, memoQ, SmartCAT, Word tricks, Windows Calculator
  • September 5, 2014 - Edition 239
    • Translation as QA, Sovee, Office apps, nativy translations, translation as stories, various tricks in MS Word, Windows and browsers
  • August 5, 2014 - Edition 238
    • SDL Language Cloud, Portage, Terminotix, LingoIO, Lingohub, technical stagnation 
  • June 29, 2014 - Edition 237
    • New ways of approaching MT, Across 6, Excel tools, translation in mobile devices
  • June 14, 2014 - Edition 236
    • TAUS's DQF, memoQ 2014, Fluid, making a difference
  • May 14, 2014 - Edition 235
    • Heartsome, Swordfish, ribbons, misguided translation interfaces, EAMT, TAUS post-editing course, Trados Studio 2014 SP1, Wazzo, transdraft, 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know
  • April 18, 2014 - Edition 234
    • OpenTM2, translate5, WinDirStat, QTLaunchPad, MQM, XTM, MultiTrans, technology professionalism
  • March 22, 2014 - Edition 233
    • Yang Xianyi, Déjà Vu X3, Linguistech, searches in Windows 7/8, Translation Office 3000, MultiTrans
  • February 19, 2014 - Edition 232
    • Lift, Problems Steps Recorder, translation technology problems, IATE, Across, alignment
  • January 27, 2014 - Edition 231
    • memoQ cloud, #whatsmissing proposals for tool vendors, Crowdin JIPT, Kafka's Metamorphosis
  • December 23, 2013 - Edition 230
    • What is not going to happen in 2014, Linguee, MS Word's PDF Reflow, OpenOffice/LibreOffice's editable PDFs, Text United, Heartsome's TMX Editor, upcoming webinars
  • November 27, 2013 - Edition 229
    • TaaS, Easyling, Linguee, Convert, new name for Tool Box Journal
  • November 4, 2013 - Edition 228
    • Star Transit, XTRF, TDA data resource, 4Visions, Windows 8.1, terminology for translators, coin misprints
  • October 7, 2013 - Edition 227
    • Déjà Vu, Star Transit, translation "industry," MateCat, Microsoft Terminology Service API, MAT editor, Bing Translation Widget with collaboration feature, #wikitrans
  • September 12, 2013 - Edition 226
    • Offline editors for online TEnTs, backing up, LF Aligner, social media for translators, Word Frequency Counter Advanced, PhraseMiner, upcoming conferences, Trados manual
  • August 7, 2013 - Edition 225
    • João Rodrigues, Trados Studio 2014, QuarkXPress, PangeaMT, Peter Schmitt
  • July 17, 2013 - Edition 224
    • St. Cyril and the euro, technology for translation novices, Wordbee MT Hive, CafeTran, Chainsaw, Unifier, DownloadThemAll
  • June 18, 2013 - Edition 223
    • memoQ 2013, thoughts on machine translation, MultiQA, Swiss Post-Editing Score
  • May 30, 2013 - Edition 222
    • Tactile computing, KantanMT, CrossCheck, morphology and translation tools, recognition for translators
  • April 19, 2013 - Edition 221
    • Twitter, ABBYY Screenshot Reader, translating Flash files, importing glossaries into Excel, upcoming workshops, Thoughts on Translation, OmegaT
  • March 24, 2013 - Edition 220
    • LogiTerm, XTM, Linguee, SAP termbase, Inuktitut, large glossary collection, W.S. Merwin
  • February 25, 2013 - Edition 219
    • Office 2013/365, SDL BeGlobal, foreign language keyboards, Classic Shell, browser-based TEnTs
  • January 28, 2013 - Edition 218
    • Wordbee, SDL OpenExchange, @CATguruEN videos and the convoluted future of the profession
  • December 29, 2012 - Edition 217
    • Looking back at 2012, Psalm 23, new edition of Tool Box ebook, realtime cooperation in freelance versions of TEnTs, Language Terminal, CheckMate, CodeZapper, TuMatXa, TMX Assistant, IntelliWebSearch, T-Index, Xbench
  • December 1, 2012 - Edition 216
    • Translators embrace technology, Microsoft's scary voice recognition, Windows 8, Across 5.5, memoQ 6.2, Heartsome 8, Kevin Lossner's book on memoQ
  • November 2, 2012 - Edition 215
    • European Commission decides to continue to use Trados, Michael Henry Heim, cultural communication gaps: Hmong and the US, Windows 8, machine translation in TEnTs, WordFinderOnline, Translator Tools, Word search toolbar
  • October 2, 2012 - Edition 214
    • Meteorologists and MT, translation environment tools and Windows 8, using the Send to command, intelligent use of MT with Déjà Vu, list of tools for translators, Moses tutorial, Assamese
  • September 7, 2012 - Edition 213
    • Empowering translators, language industry or industries, ideal MT post-editing tools, Lingotek, TAUS Tracker, click.to, AMTA, Indian Rupees
  • August 10, 2012 - Edition 212
    • Translation technology and art, memoQ 6, MT apologetics, benefitting from Google Translate, Wikipedia struggles with TEnTs, SDL development moves to Cluj, new toolbar by Terminotix, Secunia Personal Software Inspector, FileHippo, Ccleaner, search in Windows, upcoming webinars
  • July 17, 2012 - Edition 211
    • Texting and Hebrew, Trados Studio 2011 SP2, Verifika, Microsoft Translator Hub, MT-Qualifier, AMTA conference, Glossary Manager, panic-stricken translators
  • June 15, 2012 - Edition 210
    • Duolingo, Fluency, TEAMserver, browser shortcuts, Linguee, memoQuickies, Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Translation, The Big Wave, dictating, Actual Title Buttons, Babelfish, new Google MT feature
  • May 21, 2012 - Edition 209
    • Jasper Johns, Linguee, better PDF processing, working with corpora, Olanto, terminologists vs. translators, Microsoft contextual thesaurus, Moses, Adobe Moses Tools, Firefox
  • April 21, 2012 - Edition 208
    • MemSource, Translators without Borders, NoBabel, VisualTran, Sysfilter, Google Translator Toolkit, ShareMouse, WinDirStats, virtual CD drives
  • March 23, 2012 - Edition 207
    • David Crystal, T.S. Eliot, TEnTs and HTML5, QA tools, TranslationTutorials.com, Trados Manual, translationratings.ru, Mox, Translator Hub, itranslate4.eu, DuckDuckGo, Microsoft Manual of Style
  • February 25, 2012 - Edition 206
    • "Found in Translation," Windows 8 multilingual capabilities, Across, Khan Academy, GT4T, Esperanto and Google Translate, OmegaT manual, Gooobing, IATE widget, TEnT and REnT, smartQuery, TO3000, Squamish
  • January 27, 2012 - Edition 205
    • Translation in 1 word, update craze, SDL Studio GroupShare, Skype icons, Projetex, DropInSavings, Twitter RSS feeds, SDL response to future of localization tools, Arabic
  • December 30, 2011 - Edition 204
    • Artificial languages, future of localization tools, PDF Translator, hyperpolyglots, text-to-speech for editing. CTTIC online classes, ChangeTracker, Translate Romani
  • December 1, 2011 - Edition 203
    • Cloud illusions, Déjà Vu X2, voice recognition, Browsershots, Shapecatcher, web-based input method editor for non-Latin languages, Vai
  • November 8, 2011 - Edition 202
    • Mad Gab, advances in translation environment tools through opening of data silos, Microsoft Afkar, ways to handle with paid access to online MT, Snowball, termbases.eu, Image Resizer, AutoHotkey, MS Office and privacy, Edo
  • October 15, 2011 - Edition 201
    • Anselm Kiefer, Tower of Babel, Manypedia, Meme Miner, MemSource, paid access to Bing Translator, memoQ, Lítost, Armenian
  • September 13, 2011 - Edition 200
    • 200th celebration edition, using the right tool, creating language, supporting tool vendors, from mechanics to managers, dirt and data, keyboard cripple disease, eror recognition, Hitchhiker's Guide and the future of MT, "smaller" language lobbying, Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, six-word memoir project  
  • August 27, 2011 - Edition 199
    • Eugene Nida, St. Jerome, Jeromobot, Corinne McKay guest article, paid access to Google Translate, data standards for translators, Tatoeba
  • August 12, 2011 - Edition 198
    • Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten, Swetlana Geier, Judy Jenner guest article, TranslateCAD, Linport, Interoperability Now, EU TEnT tender, Endangered Alphabets project
  • July 28, 2011 - Edition 197
    • Computer-aided manufacturing, "computer," Trados Studio 2011, EU TEnT tender, Geek Code, hidden MS Word shortcuts
  • July 14, 2011 - Edition 196
    • The Poem Store, EU TEnT tender, TranslateCAD, Cafetran, DraftSight, TMBuilder, Aliado, Open-Tran.eu, Geek Code, important Unicode fonts,
  • June 30, 2011 - Edition 195
    • Übersetzertreffen, Günter Grass, Wordfast Classic, Interprenaut newsletter, TM Repository, Alchemy Language Exchange, webwordcount, Filehippo, WordPress Multilingual Plugin, Microsoft Outlook and Unicode
  • June 16, 2011 - Edition 194
    • Ray Kurzweil, 本地化?, Global Glossary, purging clipboard, TMbuilder, Web Economy Bullsh** Generator, 84000 project, MT post-editing
  • June 4, 2011 - Edition 193
    • Deprecation of Google Translate API, Déjà Vu X2, hybrid MT systems, Ogham
  • May 18, 2011 - Edition 192
    • Corinne McKay book review, encryption in Windows 7, help resources for Trados Studio, advanced searches in Twitter, 1-4a Rename, ErrorSpy, Systran
  • May 5, 2011 - Edition 191
    • PROMT, globalReview, Unicode tools, ApSIC Xbench, PSD2TXT, ASAP Utilities. deleting commands in MS Word, Phaistos disc
  • April 22, 2011 - Edition 190
    • Vicky (Wickie, ビッケ), morphological rules for termbases, Google advanced searches, self-reflection on the language industry, ReviewIT, uncorpora.org, webitext.com, tsrali.com, háček
  • April 10, 2011 - Edition 189
    • Value of data, OPUS, EU translation corpus, Hansards corpus, TAUS Data Associations, IntelliWebSearch, MyMemory, Linguee, accessing data through URLs, alignment
  • March 30, 2011 - Edition 188
    • Knut ist tot, new home for translation technology standards, new generation of browsers, AutoUnbreak, PDF-XChange Viewer, Inquiry Wizard, Engkoo (英库), filtering in Windows Explorer, upcoming conferences
  • March 3, 2011 - Edition 187
    • Librarians and technology, translation memory technology gone within 5 years?, WorldServer, six-word-memoirs for translators, Rainbow, Olifant, Okapi tools, LISA's death, MARTIF
  • February 24, 2011 - Edition 186
    • The Prosperous Translator, Preptags, CodeZapper, 7-Zip, copying from PDF files, Poedit, Rainbow, Arabic palindromes
  • February 11, 2011 - Edition 185
    • Richard Sears, CodeZapper, one2edit, text editors, PROMT, Skype, web fonts, Similis
  • January 28, 2011 - Edition 184
    • Digestive problems, Translator Tools, what TEnT to buy?, TEnTs for all subject areas?, do TEnTs support all languages?, use several TEnTs?, editing support in TEnTs, DuckDuckGo, WolframAlpha, Translation Detector, MultiTerm Widget, Hobo characters
  • January 14, 2011 - Edition 183
    • PROMT, tricks with MS Word, updates of Déjà Vu, memoQ, and Fluency, tackling the technological barrier
  • December 30, 2010 - Edition 182
    • 10 dreams about how tools should develop, The Entrepreneurial Linguist, IntelliWebSearch and TDA
  • December 19, 2010 - Edition 181
    • SDL OpenExchange, new version of Tool Box ebook, Online Translation Manager (OTM), Passolo 2011
  • December 6, 2010 - Edition 180
    • Qwiki, TranslatorsTraining, Moses for Mere Mortals, DoMY, contextual alternates for fonts, Windows 7 tricks, T-Index
  • November 21, 2010 - Edition 179
    • Dirt and data, TDA, TAUS Widget, Business Success for Freelance Translators, language options in Office 2010, using the keyboard, collecting glossaries
  • November 5, 2010 - Edition 178
    • Translators meet MT developers, PhraseMiner, GeoWorkz and Lionbridge, machine translation and poetry, Office for Mac and Wordfast, Xbench,  ResourceBlender,  Moses for Mere Mortals, Able2Doc, Free OCR, NotroPDF, PDF XChange Viewer, PDF Converter
  • October 23, 2010 - Edition 177
    • PDF file types, PDF tools, commenting in PDFs, searching for text in PDF Files, electronic signatures in PDFs, converting PDF files to editable text, PDF password protection and permission control
  • October 11, 2010 - Edition 176
    • Keyboard monument, PDF processing in TEnTs, updates of Trados, memoQ, Fluency, and Similis, TranslatorsTraining
  • September 24, 2010 - Edition 175
    • MadCap Lingo, proportional Japanese fonts, InDesign, WeAllEdit, Google's virtual keyboards, Gazelle, BuyMyTronics
  • September 12, 2010 - Edition 174
    • Technology and relationships, browser based translation, XTM Cloud, Boltran, Multifultor, Phras.in, fonts and productivity
  • August 29, 2010 - Edition 173
    • Spell-checking in PowerPoint, dealing with machine translation, libraries in Windows, conferences, Nietzsche and the typewriter, Payment Practices
  • August 18, 2010 - Edition 172
    • Jeromojewels, finger brains, shortcuts for Windows, common shortcuts for web browsers, MS Word shortcuts, Excel shortcuts, PowerPoint shortcuts, Adobe Acrobat shortcuts
  • July 30, 2010 - Edition 171
    • TM-based authoring, Lingotek, AMTA conference, shadow copies in Windows 7, ePreserver, Xbench, 2Lingual, Babelplex
  • July 15, 2010 - Edition 170
    • Microsoft's Language Portal, EuroTermBank, Xbench, SDL purchases LanguageWeaver, TranslatorsTraining, Plunet, Worx, Napsys CopyFlow, EU report on the translation industry, Jeromobot skin
  • July 2, 2010 - Edition 169
    • Jeromobot skin, Office 2010, support of Office 2010 by TEnTs, OpenTM2
  • June 20, 2010 - Edition 168
    • Nvu, KompoZer, PDF markup, Fluency, Trados manual, Synchroterm for freelancers
  • June 3, 2010 - Edition 167
    • Alchemy Publisher, machine translation and the translator, full screen views in various tools, MyMemory in MultiTrans, "Hide display types the monitor cannot display" setting
  • May 22, 2010 - Edition 166
    • President Kirchner and the translators of Argentina, Linguee, Translation Workspace, memoQ 4.2, PDFs
  • May 6, 2010 - Edition 165
    • Explaining "TEnT," ReadyBoost, Understanding the FREE in Freelance (by Alex Eames), Google Transliteration IMEs, PCLOSTrans, TMbuilder, Translation Workspace and LSPs
  • April 22, 2010 - Edition 164
    • Lionbridge Translation Workspace, Wordfast Anywhere, Lingotek and Adobe, Google Translator Toolkit, multilingual eye chart
  • April 12, 2010 - Edition 163
    • Dari Qu'ran, Wordbee, Crowdin.net, Windows 7 pinning, foot mouses 
  • March 27, 2010 - Edition 162
    • End if the 5-year-rule for MT, Microsoft Website Translation Widget, Twitter, Trados Starter Edition, searching in Firefox, TermWiki, adjusting your view to improve editing, Ƶ
  • March 11, 2010 - Edition 161
    • Esperanto, Trados Service Pack, OpenExchange, Haitian machine translation, OmegaT+, new version of Wordfast Pro, Payoneer, Langmates, Google projects that failed, Google Translator Toolkit
  • February 27, 2010 - Edition 160
    • Jeromobot in Hungary, new version of OmegaT, Anaphraseus, Felix, CafeTran, EsperantiloTM, advanced searching in MS Word, Hebrew language lobbying, solving compatibility with Windows Vista/7
  • February 17, 2010 - Edition 159
    • Loss of face, WorldServer's lifeline extended, TEnTs and localization features, XLIFF, Microsoft Word's Spike, XPS, four-pronged shin
  • January 29, 2010 - Edition 158
    • Google Transliteration IME, Xerox Terminology Suite, MultiTerm Extract, SDL PhraseFinder, MultiTrans WORDAlign, SynchroTerm, TermExtractor, ParaConc, L10NWorks, TermWiki, Multilizer MultiMT, evaluation criteria of TEnTs, being good to laptops, YouAlign
  • January 15, 2010 - Edition 157
    • GodMode, Firefox about:robots, Maxprograms, Swordfish, using different fonts for editing, XML, speech recognition in TEnTs
  • December 30, 2009 - Edition 156
    • Asking the tool vendors about MT, terminology management, easy-to-use tools, development of the market
  • December 26, 2009
    • Popping the question
  • December 11, 2009 - Edition 155
    • QA Distiller, Clay Tablet, TAUS Data Association, Google Dictionary, OPUS, Across, Windows 7 and the WinKey, MemoQ 4, Watercooler
  • November 27, 2009 - Edition 154
    • Translatress, Windows 7, ]project-open[, Google Translate for Translators (GT4T), ABBYY Aligner, Meedan.net, PCLOSTrans, After the Deadline spell- and grammar checker, BigTM.net, version 8 of Translator's Tool Box ebook, 42
  • November 13, 2009 - Edition 153
    • Bloody wars or thousand systems blooming with MT?, Will it blend video, Windows 7, Bing, shell: command, AutoSuggest dictionary sharing
  • October 30, 2009 - Edition 152
    • Translation Party, crowdsourcing, Google Translator Toolkit, GeoWorkz
  • October 18, 2009 - Edition 151
    • Unicoce haiku, TERMIUM Plus, TAUS Data Association, IntelliWebSearch, mixed HTML and XML content, L10NWorks, new version of Google Translator Toolkit, ApSIC Xbench, ANLOC, Translate.org.za, GlossMaster, OmegaT
  • October 19, 2009 - Edition 150
    • IBM's 1954 MT declaration, ATA responds to Obama, MultiTrans, marketing to translators, Code2000, Code2001, mixed HTML and XML content
  • September 19, 2009 - Edition 149
    • Who killed creativity? Do we really need TM?, Dark Room, NXPowerLite, WindowTabs, web fonts, FontList, jobs-translators list, ö
  • September 4, 2009 - Edition 148
    • Quick backups, SanDeE*, JoSTrans, Snowball, memoQ, ATA Client Outreach, Martif, Maxitweet, Cherokee
  • August 20, 2009 - Edition 147
    • Textalyser, manipulating MS Word shortcut menus, NoBabel, EuroTermBank, IntelliWebSearch, translation blogs, Wordfast, Toxic, Déjà Vu tricks
  • August 8, 2009 - Edition 146
    • EuroTermBank Terminology Add-In for Microsoft Word, Glearch, 2Lingual, MyMemory, YouAlign, AlignFactory, TypeIt, Google Virtual Keyboard API, Star Transit packages
  • July 24, 2009 - Edition 145
    • Translation and commodity, IntelliWebSearch training, AutoComplete, style and formatting agreements 
  • July 10, 2009 - Edition 144
    • DTP support n TEnTs, AIT, AnyCount, style and formatting agreements, Okapi Framework, Skype
  • June 26, 2009 - Edition 143
    • Persian machine translation, looking for a Trados replacements, TransAbacus, Teleport, XnView, Flash Decompiler, saving files from a website, Similis, Belarc Advisor, ATA Member-Provider Program, Integrated Keyboarding, FileTypesMan, Glossy, &
  • June 11, 2009 - Edition 142
    • TAUS Data Association's data collection, Google Translator Toolkit, EU TMs, SDL licensing, Clay Tablet
  • May 31, 2009 - Edition 141
    • Linguee, TranslatorsTraining.com, My Places in MS Office, TweakUI, using index searches in Acrobat, CodeZapper 
  • May 15, 2009 - Edition 140
    • Dr. Seuss, searching in Windows, Everything, PDF-to-Word, using keyboards wisely, AllChars, Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, On-Screen Keyboard
  • May 2, 2009 - Edition 139
    • Okapi, Rainbow, Ratel, SRX, PDF Transformer, Chemistry Formatter Add-ins, Resource Translation Toolkit, WWW Search Interfaces for Translators, unblocking CHM files, Localisation UnConference, XDXF
  • April 15, 2009 - Edition 138
    • Agile, Worx, Swordfish, AlignFactory, openTMS, interpreting URLs, MT2007 
  • April 3, 2009 - Edition 137
    •  MemoQ 3.5, Passolo, Excel limits, Pipl, Resource Translation Toolkit
  • March 19, 2009 - Edition 136
    • SDL AuthorAssistant for FrameMaker, SDL Trados Studio, closing Excel, Qabiria toolbar, YOOprocess
  • March 5, 2009 - Edition 135
    • Animator vs. Animation, mechanics to managers, Twitter bashing, Procrastination Killer, ManicTime, Image Resizer, Font properties extension, terminology made easy, Firefox add-ins, ř
  • February 19, 2009 - Edition 134
    • Qu'ran translation, interchangable shortcuts between TEnTs, working with browser tabs, Kumarajiva and Kuramachina, Alchemy Catalyst, menu accelerators, terminology survey
  • February 6, 2009 - Edition 133
    • Qu'ran translation, Evernote, AidTrans Studio, John Hutchins' Compendium of Translation Software, InDesign for Translators manual, InDesign IDML, StoryTweaker, OpenTMS survey, TTXpress surmise, characters in Mangas
  • January 26, 2009 - Edition 132
    • Star Transit NXT, InDesign for Translators manual, Trados keyboard shortcuts, Tweak VI, system fonts, V
  • January 9, 2009 - Edition 131
    • Wordle, XML files with HTML, TranslateCAD for AutoCAD files, optimizing monitors, youconvertit, yousendit, MultiCorpora/Systran, ლ (Georgian L)
  • December 24, 2008 - Edition 130
    • Various resources for fonts, finding out whether you're the Administrator of a Windows PC, upcoming conferences, SnagIt, Greenshot, glimpses of upcoming new version of Trados, Google Pack, ð
  • December 13, 2008 - Edition 129
    • Tools to communicate, for text-based files, for searches, for conversions, for graphics, for security, for website downloads; the middle mouse button, Cool Mouse, Sysfilter, Mumbai
  • November 26, 2008 - Edition 128
    • Thankfulness for translation tools and the translation profession, Avaya, Swordfish, Heartsome, Taskbar Shuffle, Scanner, TaskSwitchXP, Stickies, KeePass, PortableApps, winPenPack, Portable Freeware, Sandboxie, ClipMate, standards, இ (Tamil i)
  • November 14, 2008 - Edition 127
    • Wordfast, Anaphraseus, Virtaal, ButtonBoogie, DiskPie Pro, AltTabIt, AltTabIt, StoreItAll, Google coversions, ß
  • November 1, 2008 - Edition 126
    • New versions of MultiTrans, Similis, Star Transit, Trados, Wordfast, Convert, T4T-CNV, Alchemy Publisher, Trados and MT, Anaphraseus (formerly OpenWordfast)
  • October 17, 2008 - Edition 125
    • Update cycles, SDL Automated Translation Solutions, TEnTs and MT, RSS, IntelliComplete's demise, Typing Assistant, TILP's Certified Localisation (CLP) program
  • October 8, 2008 - Edition 124
    • Manipulating spell-checkers, Andrä ontram, scrolling in browsers, Translation Day, event calendar by ITI
  • September 20, 2008 - Edition 123
    • Inventory of tools that provide resource lookup, terminology management, project management, word counts, software localization, term extraction, text extraction, conversion, alignment, quality assurance, dealing with RSS, Clear-Cat's demise
  • September 5, 2008 - Edition 122
    • Launch of Google Chrome, Google Translation Center, security from A-Z and how to protect oneself
  • August 28, 2008 - Edition 121
    • Is a G-string a G-Saite? Failures of (human) translation, crowdsourcing/Facebook, upcoming conferences, text only pasting, PureText, Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, dead keys
  • August 7, 2008 - Edition 120
    • Google Translation Center leasked, free freelance editions of TEnTs, Kindle, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, magicJack, Egg task timer, QTTabBar, dating your projects
  • July 24, 2008 - Edition 119
    • Sub-segmenting, new TranslatorsTraining, Beetext, Simple Invoices, CrapCleaner, EasyCleaner, Lingotek, Snowball, Localization UnConference
  • July 11, 2008 - Edition 118
    • Translation images, GIMP, ECM Engineering, Transmissions, Globalization Image Assistant, Image Localization Manager; Ctrl+Shift+Esc; clearing the temp directory, Atril/Kilgray/Across pledge independence, update to Transit XV, Heartsome
  • June 27, 2008 - Edition 117
    • Little-endian, Translation Office 3000, keyboard shortcuts in TEnTs, OmegaT, Firefox, XTM, XTRF, cracking file formats with text editors
  • June 13, 2008 - Edition 116
    • Virtual PC, TinyTM, MetaTexis, Worx, Plunet, ClayTablet, partnerships between tool providers, Flow, LogiTerm, Alchemy Publisher, SDL MultiTerm import, localization certification, Total Commander, bxNewFolder, do translators benefit from TEnTs? (Part 2)
  • May 29, 2008 - Edition 115
    • Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, should you download specific applications for specific projects?, do translators benefit from TEnTs?, Alt+Backspace, ideas.sdltrados.com, Alessandra Muzzi's FeeWizard
  • May 16, 2008 - Edition 114
    • Illegal vs. paid copies of software, ElcomSoft, QA Distiller, OCR with Acrobat, Xobni, better uses of icons in MS Word, Autoruns for Windows, EZDetach, Attachment Extractor
  • April 30, 2008 - Edition 113
    • FOLT, TinyTM, cheap OCR, MOC (Massive Online Collaboration) work for translation purposes, File-Ex, Sysfilter for CorelDraw / Illustrator / Photoshop / InDesign / Visio / Excel
  • April 18, 2008 - Edition 112
    • Workspaces in MS Office, Déjà Vu X tricks, SugarSync, Cobian, LaptopLock, Microsoft Language Portals, Windows Live Terminology Feedback Project
  • April 3, 2008 - Edition 111
    • AutoAligner, user groups for TEnTs, Similis for free, translated versions of TEnTs, List Spelling Errors macro, T-Manager, quality of Office spellchecks
  • March 20, 2008 - Edition 110
    • SDL's upgrade policy causes concerns, MemoQ, Alchemy purchased by translations.com, PDF Converter, PDF Transformer, Solid Converter PDF, printing hidden text
  • March 6, 2008 - Edition 109
    • WinKey tricks, creating perfect matches in TagEditor, needs to invest into translation technology, the SaaS concept for tool vendors, ☮
  • February 21, 2008 - Edition 108
    • Librarians are better than translators in adopting technology, Disabled Items in Office, Cafetran, questions of compatibility with Trados formats, Clay Tablet, Ⰿ (Glagolithic M)
  • Special Edition, Idiom
    • SDL's takeover of Idiom and the future of translation technology
  • February 8, 2008 - Edition 107
    • Backups, Carbonite, Mozy, Acronis True Image, customizing the Word 2007 ribbon, Micorosoft glossary, WinLexic, PushPin, DeskPins, Korean writing
  • January 25, 2008 - Edition 106
    • Difference between utilities and full-blown programs, Trados 2007 SP2, InDesign CS3, ECM-Engineering, CopyFlow, one2edit, IntelliWebSearch with hard-drive searches, Swordfish, Werecat
  • January 10, 2008 - Edition 105
    • Alerts for emails, Font Frenzy, voice recognition in TEnTs, TM Marketplace, t4t tools
  • December 28, 2007 - Edition 104
    • Predictions for 2008, SynchroTerm, XnView, using speech recognition

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