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Alessandra Torriani
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No Peanuts for translators!

Links and other resources

Trusted colleagues:
:: www.cinziapieri.it German>Italian translations. Specializations: technical, marketing, gastronomy, fashion/clothing industry texts.
:: www.elleditraduzioni.it English/French>Italian translations. Specializations: law, finance, marketing, localization.
:: www.facebook.com/Adele.Olivieri.Traduzioni English/Spanish>Italian translations. Specializations: finance, marketing.
:: www.attivissimo.net As he himself says: the dump of digital ravings by Paolo Attivissimo, IT writer.

Translation info:
:: No Peanuts! for translators.
:: Tariffometro You have doubts about translations rates? Look here :-)
:: ACTA Associazione Consulenti Terziario Avanzato.
:: Translation Journal "A Publication for Translators by Translators about Translators and Translation."

:: Acronym Finder English acronyms.
:: Webster A very good American English dictionary.
:: IATE The dictionary/glossary of the European Union.
:: Wordnik English dictionary and thesaurus.
:: PubMed  International bibliography database of medical papers.
:: MedSites A list of medical glossaries, a list of Free Medical Journals, and the Medical Glossaries from Montréal University.
:: DOAJ A list of freely accessible scientific and medical journals.

Useful software:
:: Wordfast The free alternative to Trados (Here, the low cost one; another free alternative is OmegaT.)
:: FineCount Free text analysis and count (characters, spaces, words, lines, pages, repetitions) software that supports different document formats - MS Word, Excel, PPoint, HTML, PDF and others.
As an alternative there are FreeBudget, freeware version of WebBudget, and the shareware AnyCount.
:: HTTrack Utility for downloading a full Website from the Internet to a local directory.
:: CatsCradle Editor for translating HTML files. Normally I use TradosTagEditor, but I heard great things of this CC. Once I also used Berlitz's TransWebExpress, that's no more available online.
:: www.html.it Resources, news, training for webmasters and Internet users (in Italian.)
:: Digsby Multiprotocol messenger that also manages mail and LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook profiles.
:: TreePad The pioneer in tree-structured data-management. Versatile and compact DB, PIM, organizer, word processor software...
:: Qlock Nice, free desktop clock with different time zones.
:: WorkRave Free software for people suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury; it forces you to stop working at regular intervals, with or without stretching exercises.
:: EssentialPim The best personal information manager around, both 'full' for desktop and 'portable' for pen drive. The Pro version allows interoperability with PocketPC and smartphone.