Tradcast – uma ótima novidade no mercado is a post from: Ccaps Blog

You could tell me that when you get home, you are able to relax, but I would say that you are the exception. Often times, even when we finish our work at the office, we are unable to rest, because this is exactly when the notorious “second job” starts at home: taking care of the kids, making dinner, getting the school uniforms ready for the next day, making sure that the homework was done. In other words, the stress keeps coming until much later. This is why we should strive to make the most of every moment we live.

Since I really enjoy reading about motivation, self-esteem, incentive and other such topics, I found this piece I would like to share with you and with which I greatly identified.

Did you know that you carry within your body a saintly remedy for several different things, even the liver? I’ll give you a hint: It is in your mouth and there are no contraindications to its use. Do you know the name of this remedy? Read this article and discover for yourself. Hope you can understand Portuguese though…

Yet if after reading it, you are still unable to put it to the test, think twice: This is an excellent formula and guarantees great results!

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It is called IntelliWebSearch and I found out about it during a lecture by translator Fernando Campos Leza during the 3rd ABRATES International Translation and Interpretation Conference, which took place this year in Porto Alegre. These events are always so good for learning new things. And this is what I will share with you now!

IntelliWebSearch is what Michael Farrell, the guy who developed the tool, calls the “Three Steps to Term Searcher’s Paradise.” This means that you perform searches in three stages only, streamlining your work. The tool is nothing more than a series of shortcuts for your most highly used search sources to guarantee that you waste less time.

This is what it looks like:

You select the word you want to search for in any program and press CTRL+ALT+B to open the program. Then you click the Search number you want to use, granted that all are fully customizable!

By clicking GroupSearch, you search all the sources from a given group at the same time; and in PluriSearch, you search in those that you configure.

There are five groups, each one of which has 10 sources; or in other words, you can include your 50 favorite search sources, separate them into categories (groups) and configure everything in the way that is most convenient for you.

The complete configuration requires a bit of work, but it can really pay off! I am already configuring mine here…

Ah, and here I am at the ABRATES Conference with co-worker Wandrianne and my beloved former boss, Renato Beninatto! =)

Three Steps to Term Searcher’s Paradise is a post from: Ccaps Blog

So why not take advantage of an excellent opportunity that the Institute of Localisation Professionals is offering? They are promoting a course in Brazil for those working in localization to learn a bit more about all of these details, meet other people from the industry, increase their knowledge of different tools, obtain a certification in localization and even obtain free licenses for several different tools! Anderson Cézar and I will be taking the course over the upcoming months, beginning now with 10 online modules and finishing with four days of on-site classes in Porto Alegre.

The program was created for translators, project managers and engineers, since the content is important for all of them.

To obtain more information and register, simply visit the TILP Certified Localization Professional website.

We will see you there!

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Unfortunately, most of our mobile devices, like cellular and smartphones, have a hard time displaying websites in full, in addition to the fact that they use most of our bandwidth, which is still expensive in Brazil.

To make this easier, the solution is to create a simpler version of the blog. This version should fit mobile device screens and be lighter to load faster and not use too much bandwidth. This is exactly what we did with the Ccaps Blog! Now, if you open the Blog in a mobile device, it recognizes that and automatically loads the mobile version. Cool, huh?

The first links you see are the language option links. Like the desktop version, click on those links from any page to change the language without having to search again for the page or post you want to read. And, if for some reason, you want to go back to the normal version, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Switch to our desktop site.

Now you can share those funny Bushisms with your friends at a bar when your stock of jokes has run out…

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No, but seriously, the Urban Dictionary was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. At that time, Peckham was a computer science major at the California Polytechnic State University looking for a project and created this fun and informative way to understand what the heck your teenager and his/her friends are talking about.

The Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary that is written by the people, for the people. The slangs can be rated by users with a thumbs up or down and the results are posted together with the word. I guess this is to help you decide whether or not the word should actually be added to your vocab.

The Urban Dictionary has over 4,037,566 definitions and was rated by Time Magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2008. Slang entries can be submitted directly to the site and users can also sign up to be editors.

What a wonderful, educational time waster!

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Behind the camera was renowned photographer Camilla Maia. She works for Revista, a Sunday publication of Brazilian newspaper O Globo and her work has been published in international magazines such as Modern Elegance and Wallpaper. Gabriel Garcia was our producer and Tina Mello, the make-up artist.

Fabiano explained that he decided to do this because we are revamping the Ccaps marketing material. In this new approach, we are positioning Ccaps as a young company, with strong personal relationship. Not that this is different from what we have been doing all these years, only this time we can show the world who we really are. And as he himself puts it, we will shout it loud!

To show more of who we truly are, he asked us to choose an object that would represent us or illustrate something that we like. Each one of us brought their own object, from running tennis shoes to guitar and books. Since I love traveling, I brought a little globe, which fitted well in the palm of my hand. =)

What Fabiano does not know is that with his idea he created an unforgettable moment, full of glamour for all of us at Ccaps. We could show that not only we could be super models, but also that we have a lot offer, together with the services in which we excel.

Here is a preview (with our little cameras) of what will be online soon. Just bear with us!

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Every year, the Oxford lexicographic team monitors the changes that the English language goes through. The neologisms are analyzed and those that reflect the ethos of the moment and demonstrate firepower and cultural relevance become strong candidates for “word of the year.”

In 2009, the elected word was “unfriend.” This word is not actually a neologism, as it existed for many years. It appears in the 1913 edition of the Webster‘s dictionary and means “enemy.” Moreover, it often appears in science fiction novels of the celebrated American writer Andre Alice Norton, in particular the best-seller The Crystal Gryphon.

Ok, just a reminder: neologism is the use of new words derived from others, or is the allocation of new meanings to existing words, as taught in the Concise Oxford Dictionary. Neologisms have always existed. Nothing against them! After all, no living language can be immutable. There are neologisms in all areas, but those in the media are obviously more detectable.

Unfriend was elected “word of the year” because it circulated the web not as a noun, but as a verb. Now it defines the elimination of undesirable people from your friend list on Orkut, Facebook and others.

If you make use of social networks, maybe you have already “unfriended” someone, or worse, have been “unfriended.” If so, how about you distract yourself a little from this by learning other neologisms less voted for, but that are fairly common online?

There is hashtag (a # [hash] sign added to a word or phrase that enables Twitter users to search for tweets that contain similarly tagged items and view thematic sets), there is intexticated (distracted because texting on a cell phone while driving a vehicle) and many more… Check the list at http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/unfriend or read more about the subject at http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-unf1.htm.

And if you don’t put a comment here, I might end up unfriending you! =)

Eneida Vieira was a Language Specialist for Ccaps and currently works for the company on a regular basis. With a Degree in Liberal Arts, she worked for a very long time at Cultura Inglesa and at Colégio Pedro II. She has previously dedicated to literary translation and has many works published by large Brazilian publishing houses such as Rocco, Martins Fontes and José Olympio. In 2006, she won the Monteiro Lobato award from the National Foundation of child and Youth Literature (FNLIJ) for the best translation for a young audience.

Have You Been Unfriended? is a post from: Ccaps Blog

Every day, new technologies appear in the language industry scenario. From machine translation engines to new environments for web-based project management, these tools are fundamental for discussing the path the industry will take, considering the influence they will have on the way we do business and offer our services.

For this reason, IMTT and MasterWord Services joined forces to promote the 4º Vendor Management Seminar at the Venetian Resort Hotel, in Las Vegas. The Seminar will allow vendor managers all over the world to gather and discuss the best practices that will shape the market, while creating an environment suitable for sharing experiences and challenges with industry experts. Ccaps has always been a supporter of such initiatives, since they further enhance the professionalism in our market.

On July 23 and 24, 2010, Las Vegas will play host to a meeting of industry authorities and innovators. The event’s program will be in the same line of previous seminars organized by IMTT. It will cover topics of major interest for localization professionals, while helping vendor managers improve their recruiting processes and guarantee the selection of quality providers. The sessions, presented by leading authorities, such as Renato Beninatto, Bob Donaldson, Kirti Vashee and others, will create a relaxed atmosphere, adequate for open debate and networking.

Since the last seminar, organized during the 6th Language & Technology Conference, in April 2009, everyone was looking forward to the next event. Mark Rockford, Vendor Relations Manager of MasterWord Services, and Cecilia Iros, Operations Manager of IMTT, decided to combine their efforts and make it happen again. Rockford and Iros highlight the opportunities to learn the most recent vendor management techniques and define the event as the perfect occasion to develop relationships among colleagues and share industry common practices.

IMTT, with whom we partnered to organize Think Latin America, and MasterWord Services, a Ccaps client since 2007, offer translation and localization solutions for a varied clientele. The companies believe in professionalism and commitment as a means to manage complex projects and facilitate communication among different peoples and cultures.

For the organizers, the main goal of the gathering is to overcome the limitations related to vendor manager training. The increasing relevance of the vendor manager’s role in selecting a qualified, experienced and dedicated team has become clear. If not fully prepared or without the adequate tools, such team can compromise every effort of the company to fully meet its client’s needs.

If you missed the other seminars or would be part of this unique experience again, visit the event’s official website, where you can register, become a sponsor or find more information.

Just be careful with that roulette! =)

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