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Wordfast on Word. The Return?

Yves — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:57:27 +0000

Possibly the only important news for Mac using translators coming from the last Macworld Expo in February was the announcement of a release time for the next Office for Mac: holiday season 2010. It’s big news for many of us, Wordfast fans, who cannot use Wordfast Classic on the latest version of the suite due [...]

The Newly Minted Quicken

Yves — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:50:31 +0000

The Quicken nightmare saga is finally over! Intuit in March released Quicken Essentials for Mac, a brand spanking new Mac-native Quicken just for us Mac users. Some of us, freelancers, mingle with QuickBooks to invoice their clients and maintain their accounting, but in general, sole proprietors do not need overachieving accounting software and, for most [...]

Case in Point: The Demise of LocFactory Editor

Yves — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:28:14 +0000

In my Challenge for a New Decade post in February, I was calling for a developer challenge that would give the Mac translator community a real Mac OS X application for translation. This challenge was made even more pressing shortly after my post, when I got a response from the developer of LocFactory Editor — a [...]

Challenge for a New Decade

Yves — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:26:31 +0000

We’ve already lived 10 years past the end of the world and gosh, how quaint 2000 sounds already! Remember Y2K? What I also remember from 2000 is the Windows flavor of the same name. It was the marriage of professional NT robustness with the friendlier interface of Windows 98… Ten years later, that line ended [...]

Wow!

Yves — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:14:18 +0000

There’s never been a better time to get a new Mac. Since last June, the whole line-up of consumer machines has been completely revamped. Choices include the cost-efficient MacBook or a super-duper quad-core iMac. I am particularly impressed with the pixel real estate made available on the new 27-inch iMac. With a finer resolution than [...]

Versatile Keyboard

Yves — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:23:24 +0000

The keyboard is one of the translators’ most valued tools and one that can also be problematic. While past trends on the PC side have moved in the direction of hypertrophied ergonomic command centers, Apple has chosen a different philosophy in keeping with its primary goal of simplification. Aligned with the chicle key design introduced [...]

Macs More Safe, Less Secure?

Yves — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:28:57 +0000

A friend, recent switcher and member of our user group recently emailed me to ask if he should install some kind of security software on his new MacBook. For his virtual PC installation, this goes without saying, but on the Mac side, what am I to tell him? I kept that idea in the back [...]

Is iWork Now Ready for Prime Time?

Yves — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:29:08 +0000

Pages and Numbers, the core applications of iWork, are now at version 4 and deserve a new review. Is the Apple Office suite ready to compete with the top tier of the market? When Pages (Word replacement) and Numbers (for Excel) were added to Keynote (for PowerPoint) to form iWork, the comparisons were not favorable, [...]

Thank You for Attending!

Yves — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:22:50 +0000

A thirty-some group of really attentive people sat through my ATA presentation “From Blogs to Wikis” that I gave last Saturday, November 4th. Looking back at all that we covered in the 75-minute barrage of chattering I gave, I salute your steadiness. All that is regarding Web 2.0 and all the new services available to [...]

Preaching to a Big Choir

Yves — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:17:26 +0000

The recent inroads made by the Mac platform could be easily measured by the strong attendance that welcomed TransMUG’s Mac panel on November 1st at the ATA Conference. Although its number could seem confidential in that gigantic room, it’s in fact 50-some translators who were present to listen to (from left to right) Yves, Catherine, [...]