Introduction to OmegaT and BiText2TMX: free and open-source translation tools

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Two quick screencasts with my take on OmegaT, a translation environment, and BiText2TMX, an alignment tool. Both are cross-platform, multilingual, free and open source.

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Getting paid across borders: multi-currency banking for freelance translators

When it comes to accepting payments from overseas, I’ve learned the hard way that there is no single answer as to what works best. It all depends on a range of factors, such as:

the country in which you live
the country or countries in which you hold bank accounts
the facilities available to you either through your [...]

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Copy cats are NOT cool

I don’t normally like to use my blog as a platform to criticise others. But today I’m making an exception.

[edit 30 October 2009: Scroll to the end for an update]

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5 Qs with Amy Williams, French and Italian to English translator

Amy Williams is a freelance translator working from French and Italian into English, and a director of Eggplant Translations. She specialises in marketing and advertising, and the arts, media and music in particular. In the early stages of my freelance career, Amy was kind enough to give me some great advice on setting up a [...]

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Building a Strong Online Presence

Hello to translators and interpreters surfing by following my recent Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) webinar. I intend to blog about this in more detail later this week, but until then, here are some resources you might find useful:

A series of short videos introducing Twitter.
Some 5 minute videos on how I use LinkedIn, Wordpress, and [...]

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