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CAT Tools & Technology

Up Your Productivity with LSP.expert

The Open Mic Team

Dear friends! This May, June and July we’re partnering up with our friends from LSP.expert to promote their all-in-one solution for accounting, project management and invoicing. You ca

CAT Tools & Technology

How to leverage Translation Memory and glossary to achieve global message consistency?

Thomas Lespes-Muñoz

Offering content in different languages opens the door to huge possibilities in terms of international markets and mul

CAT Tools & Technology

Trados Studio 2019 review

Pieter Beens

SDL, the company behind Trados Studio, recently published the latest offspring: Trados Studio 2019. What does Trados Stu

Client Education

Why “fast food” localization will never work

Claudia Befu

In ‘n’ out translations? The way the overwhelming majority (99.999…%) of businesses deal with their translations

Food For Thought

Post-Editing…

Gert Van Assche

In the past years I've been evaluating machine translation output extensively. I started to do this because I was curiou

The utopia of “free” in freelance

Pieter Beens

Translators and other freelancers are often regarded with jealousy when they say that they are freelancers. For many peo

Professional Development

How I passed the DipTrans and you can too

Fuschia Hutton

Just bitten the bullet and decided to sign up for the Chartered Institutes of Linguists’ DipTrans exam next January? W

CAT Tools & Technology

The blockchain technology in the language industry

Thomas Lespes-Muñoz

Blockchain technology, smart contracts and cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, are a hot topic at the moment.

Food For Thought

The translation engine thinks more and more like a human

Pieter Beens

Google Translate has been the undisputed source for anyone who wants to quickly translate a text for years. Nevertheless

Product Reviews

xl8 review: improving your posture while working

Pieter Beens

Health is a topic that needs continual awareness for translators and other freelance professionals. Spending long days i

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