digital warts

for whatever reason known to mankind, you might want to promote a link in your yahoo! messenger status. it’s fairly simple. just click messenger - my status - new status message. type: message[space]url. e.g. get infected! http://digitalwarts.blogs.friendster.com/. your contacts can only see the message part, i.e. get infected!, and when they click your status, they will be directed to wherever the link is pointing, i.e. http://digitalwarts.blogs.friendster.com/.

“Thou shalt not run different versions of the same component at the same time. If thou art using several tools
at once, thou shalt not work with mixed versions of the software. For example, if thou art translating files in
TagEditor, use TagEditor 7.1 with Translator’s Workbench 7.1. Thou shalt not use TagEditor 7.1 with
Translator’s Workbench 6.5 and vice versa.”


- The Holy Book of SDL TRADOS 7 Freelance Getting Started Guide, p. 1-6

coolest thing with trados 7 is that you can work with .doc files in tageditor. this is a relatively ’safer’ environment compared to translating the file directly in microsoft word, i.e. no more, or at least minimum, changes in format. however, trados 7 doesn’t come cheap.

if you have a fully working trados 6.5, then you’re in luck. as we know, rules aren’t meant to be broken, but they can. eventhough the manual says not to mix the tools between the two versions, in fact you can do just that. let me reiterate, you can use tageditor 7.1 with translator’s workbench 6.5 to work with .doc files. thanks to save target as function in the te that you can convert back the .ttx files to .doc, bypassing the clean up process using twb.

just fire up te 7.1. depending on your setting, twb 7.1 demo will start automatically or you’ll be prompted to start it manually. whatever your preference is, just close twb 7.1, open twb 6.5, then start translating. just that. after this, every time you start te 7.1, it will automatically call up twb 6.5. nice huh?! for sdl trados 7.1 freelance demo, you can download it here.

part of my side job is downloading and uploading file. problem comes when the file is humongous. although downloading big file is almost never a problem, uploading it is a different story altogether. coupled with slow internet connection, as is the case in poor country, such as indonesia, then you got real problem.

“every cloud has a silver lining.”

thank god for ftp that you don’t have to attach small-kingkong-size file in your email. although popular free email services allow you to attach up to 10mb, most of them will try to scan your file for viruses. this slows down the process even more.

to cut to the chase, if you can use ftp to transfer file, you should do it. but you need ftp client for this. one of the most popular programs for this is ws_ftp le, which is free, as in free beer. there are other free alternatives out there. one of them is filezilla, which you can download here. but at only a slightly bigger than 1mb, ws_ftp le is a more preferred solution. too bad, ipswitch is now pushing the-not-free-but-trial-only ws_ftp home. however, for those interested in the program, you can download it here. courtesy of yours truly…