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Terminology and QA for Professional Translators

The Okapi Framework is a cross-platform and free open-source set of components and applications that offer extensive support for localizing and translating documentation and software.

IntelliWebSearch is a freeware application designed to save translators and terminologists time when searching the web.

Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

7-Zip is an open source file archiver with a high compression ratio.

Total Commander is a shareware file manager replacement for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1

Launchy is a free cross-platform utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

Pidgin is a multiprotocol and multiplatform free chat client. Connect easily to MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM and other chat networks all at once.

Dropbox is a home for all your photos, docs, videos, and files. Anything you add to Dropbox will automatically show up on all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox website — so you can access your stuff from anywhere.

ABBYY FineReader 12 is OCR software for text recognition, which turns scans, PDFs and digital photographs into searchable and editable documents. Unmatched OCR software text recognition accuracy and conversion eliminate document retyping and reformatting.

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.

CodeZapper is a powerful, easy to use set of Word VBA macros designed to "clean up" Word files before being imported into a standalone translation environment (DVX, memoQ, SDL Studio, TagEditor, Swordfish, OmegaT, Wordfast Pro, etc.)

Simple sharing for files, links, text and screenshots. Built on the awesome CloudApp service. In a little app for Windows.

MagicDisc is freeware. It is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs.

KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. It is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

LF Aligner helps translators create translation memories from texts and their translations.

Google Guide (Advanced Operators)

Windows Search 2.x is obsolete after Windows XP. Instead, use Windows Search.] The Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) is used by Microsoft Windows Desktop Search (WDS) to help users and programmers better define and narrow their searches. Using AQS is an easy way to narrow searches and deliver better result sets.

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