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Free Online Website Translation Tools

The Bad, the ugly and the worthless It’s Sunday evening and people are waiting for the Oscar ceremony to start. And while waiting, I gave some free online translation tools a spin. If you do not understand German, you will not have to much fun in this post, sorry. Here are the nominations Yahoo Bing […]

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Google Translate: When Will It Get Better?

This is just for fun. I had to quickly translate one of Shneiderman‘s Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design. The input was this: 6 Permit easy reversal of actions. This feature relieves anxiety, since the user knows that errors can be undone; it thus encourages exploration of unfamiliar options. The units of reversibility may be […]

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