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Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts

Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts

Apr 3, 2014

memoQ&A: How can I have multiple target languages in a project?

Every translation environment tool has its own approach to project management and languages. Recently, a colleague asked for advice on outso...

Oct 24, 2013

The Next Big CAT Feature To Copy?

Thanks to the persistent disbelief of some users, particularly cranky financial and legal translators who don't understand the challenge...

Aug 19, 2013

Selectable metadata for memoQ 2013 projects

One of the things I have missed very much since switching from Déjà Vu to memoQ years ago is the ability to create and maintain selectable l...

Jul 29, 2012

Creating translation projects in memoQ 6

As with most other translation environment tools, memoQ translations are performed in "projects" which bring together all the nece...

Jun 28, 2012

OTM: starting and completing projects from e-mail

There are a number of instructional videos put together by LSP.net which show the broad range of features in the Online Project Manager (OTM...

Jun 22, 2012

memoQuickie: customizing project, file and view lists

Many are not aware of this, but three of the important working lists in memoQ - the project list on the Dashboard and the Documents and View...

Apr 26, 2012

Twitterview: SDL Trados Studio, memoQ, DVX2 and PDF extraction

When I began using Twitter somewhat hesitantly three years ago, I never expected that it would eventually prove to be one of the most usef...

Apr 11, 2012

Notifications in OTM

For more than two years now, I have used the SaaS project management system from LSP.net (the Online Translation Manager or OTM ) to handle ...

Mar 4, 2012

memoQuickie: locations for data & avoiding name length trouble

Most memoQ users never change the program defaults for where projects, TMs, termbases and corpora are stored. Usually this is not a problem,...

Oct 2, 2010

Poll: Barriers to Cooperation

Recently in the sidebar of this blog, the following question was asked: What are the significant barriers for you in collaborative project...

Jun 5, 2010

A customer's view of the Online Translation Manager from lsp.net

Last September I posted a small note about an online management system and translation provider network that colleague Ralf Lemster told m...

Jul 11, 2009

Style agreement

For some time I've been thinking about creating a "default style guide" and presenting it to clients for review before underta...

Dec 15, 2008

Templates for quicker DVX project setup

One of the things that does get on the nerves of some Déjà Vu users is going through the Project Wizard to set up a project each time some l...

Dec 11, 2008

Hiding file content in MS Word and RTF files for translation

We frequently receive jobs in which some part of a file is to be excluded or where tables are included where the customer wishes to have the...

Nov 30, 2008

Advice for DVX users working with Trados projects

There is a lot of information available in the discussion lists and online forums on how to use Déjà Vu X (or other tools) to do projects in...

Nov 25, 2008

How To Reduce Your Localization Cost by Up To 40%: 30-minute Speed Primer For Translation Buyers

This is another little masterpiece from Robert Kloiber at Academy Translations in Australia. The guide is 16 pages long, and like the other...

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