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We’ve mentioned Autohotkey in a previous post (and probably will again, in the future). Today’s post has to do with using this marvelous utility to painlessly deal with accented characters. I’ve worked on Windows machines with multiple keyboards installed and active, and in my opinion, if all you need one of the keyboards for is to [...] I have been a fan of Autohotkey for some time, and I use it mostly for text replacement, because after typing “technical requirements” for about the 500th time, your fingers start asking your brain: “Is all this work really necessary?” Autohotkey excels in the area of replacing text, so I can roll my own keyboard shorthand, [...] Тонкозернистая and мелкозернистая are two troublesome words (at least for me) that are often encountered in geological descriptions of rock structure. The problem has to do with the fact that sources such as Multitran and dead wood dictionaries tend to offer the same term or set of terms for the equivalent English: fine grained, [...] My DROID X spontaneously rebooted yesterday while trying to install Evernote, and after the operating system reloaded, the Market application showed Evernote as “Installing…” but without any progress. Such a situation could be due, as it was sometime in October, to a malfunction in the system of servers (from Google, I believe) that delivers Android [...] 8pen is a strange input method designed for smart phones, and it has a heck of a learning curve, but it’s almost addictive in its ‘rhythm’! –Sentence entered using 8pen The idea of the 8pen input method can be illustrated with the following graphic: Characters are entered by moving one’s finger from the center circle into the quadrant [...] The ability to “extend” one’s Windows desktop to a second monitor is very convenient (especially if you work on a laptop), up until the time comes to hit the road with just the screen your laptop came with. Then a funny thing happens. If you launch an application that last appeared on the now-absent screen, you [...] A search string of a product name plus the manufacturer often takes you to a page with product data for the item, often in English. Case in point: Some time ago, I was translating a table of hardward items that contained something called a “pièce de référence,” with the additional information that it was manufactured by [...] A large chunk of the world represents dates with the days up front, followed by the month, followed by the year (for example, October 19, 2010 would be written 19/10/10 or 19/10/2010). American readers, generally speaking, prefer the month to come first, followed by the date and the year (e.g., 10/19/10 or 10/19/2010). To make [...] Translators live and die by the word count, but don’t be like one of my translator acquaintances who can never just “answer a question,” preferring instead to “provide a response to an interrogative statement.” Thus, avoid “description of the hazardous condition” for описание опасного условия when “hazard description” will do, and don’t “conduct a visual inspection” [...] If you browse among any of the offerings for the Kindle on the Amazon site, you cannot fail to notice the enticement to send you a sample of the publication so you can “Try it free.” In addition to allowing you to get an idea of what the book is about, this feature also allows you [...] |
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