It happened that aslang.com contained in its first version Lindex and Slanger, i.e. free and commercial tools. Now everything's changed, the very idea of a translation tool has changed since then: we decided not to separate the professional tool from a free one, instead of this we decided to provide everything for everyone but in slightly different manner.
Filer by itself, is a file manager, annotator and vocabulary builder all-in-one solution. It is not a tool overloading, but the requirement of life. Let's take a closer look at it. The job of a translator is a complex task with numerous iterations and these iterations are cycled between the windows of various online and/or desktop applications. To ease the translator's life we've worked out the whole system for creating the shortcuts in the process and built a good basement for it in the shape of the current look and feel of Slanger.
Interactor is completely another approach to solve the same kind of problems. It does a good deal of job in behind, while giving to a user the full power of online creation of translation in order to avoid 'the iterations' as much as possible. You should try a shot and you'll find it more useful than anything you met before.
A few words must be added about the professional pack of services in comparison to freely available. Any free of charge tool or service requires no disk space and does not keep user's files on the server side; the professional side of Slanger takes care about every bit you worked out so far and, as a result, you may gain access to your files, both source and produced, from any point on the Earth, or even share them. Think of it not like a paid feature, but as another level of your working environment.
The cross-platform solution is built upon the Adobe's Flex 3 technology, which already proved it's stability and reliability; ask yourself: do you know many web resources providing online multi-language professional environment? So do we.
The last, but not the least feature of aslang.com: we came here for ages and would like to convince you in the fact we've past some milestone and there are much more ahead and we're going to be open to users as much as possible: you can do that future with us!
It might be hard to find a person, who cannot count, I think. Let’s try your own ability to count, ok? For this let’s imagine you’re a professional translator and would like to list all the possible translation directions, ‘from’ and ‘into’, for the languages you know. And, imagine you know not too little: Chinese, English and Russian.
Most of the people would like to think this way:
from English into Chinese
from English into Russian
from Chinese into English
from Chinese into Russian
from Russian into English
from Russian into Chinese
We’ve got six pairs!
But this is not the fact, indeed; the modern Chinese language is really something, especially if you, say, travel from Mainland China to Hong Kong or Taiwan. In this case almost everything you know in Mandarin Chinese, its written form, gets
useless. Why?
Because on the both side of the Taiwan Straight they write, and
partially speak, not the same Chinese language; and that’s why we
have to revise the above list like following:
from English into Traditional Chinese
from English into Simplified Chinese
from English into Russian
from Traditional Chinese into English
from Simplified Chinese into English
from Traditional Chinese into Russian
from Simplified Chinese into Russian
from Russian into English
from Russian into Traditional Chinese
from Russian into Simplified Chinese
So, they are ten! That’s correct, when it comes to written translation the things become more complicated, a bit; and this is an actual state of things with aslang.com’s options for translating.