Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n.
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- Babylon.NET (txt)
- Babylon.NET is the fast, simple and friendly solution for localizing .NET applications written in Visual Studio. Since Babylon.NET focuses only on Visual Studio .NET projects it is much simpler and more intuitive to use than other localization software and offers features specially tailored to .NET and Visual Studio projects. Writes...
- Software downloads 2008-08-12
- String Resource Translator (exe)
- Editor for resource files that supports internationalization. Allows you to edit the string resources in existing files, create new files for new locales, update one resource file from another and so on. One part of a pair of utilities the other is the String Resource Creator from Tom Jorgenson Consulting...
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
- The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kit
- The end of the Neosploit web malware exploitation kit? RSA's FraudAction Research Labs recent monitoring of ongoing communications between Neosploit team members and their potential customers indicates so. The Neosploit malware kit has been around since the middle of 2007, with prices varying between $1000 and $3000, whose main differentiation...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuit
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuitFragmentParagraph 3 Sentance 1 is a fragment, its missing the part that we need... what the lawsuit is actually about!Nothing new here folks, move along, move along.This isn't something new here. Microsoft is always infringing on someone elses IP.Are these guys...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- xIPGadget (gadget)
- xIPGadget shows your public IP number, i.e, the IP number you have on the Internet. The gadget allows you to copy your IP number as well as lookup information about it (ISP, hostname, and localization). This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- ScratchPad (dmg)
- ScratchPad is a simple, free application for Mac OS X designed to help keep those notes you need to jot down organized. Essentially a modern version of the program Note Pad that came with the classic Mac OS, ScratchPad is exactly that: a scratch pad. Version 1.2.1 has French localization...
- Software downloads 2008-06-11
- Exposicion Internacional Zaragoza Keeps Information Flowing With Document Management System
- Expoagua Zaragoza 2008 is a state-owned company created by the Spanish Government, the Regional Government of Aragón, and the City Government of Zaragoza to organize, manage, promote, and operate the Exposicion Internacional Zaragoza 2008. Expoagua Zaragoza wanted to create a centralized and flexible content management tool to manage all information...
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- The first optical pacemaker
- According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA
- Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Sweet Home 3D (exe)
- Sweet Home 3D helps people to design their interior quickly. The user may: draw the walls of his rooms upon the image of an existing plan, change the color or the texture of the walls, draw dimensions, drag and drop furniture in the plan from a catalog organized by categories...
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- iTunesShut (zip)
- Do you fall sleep with music from iTunes? And want to shut down your Mac after the music has finished automatically? With this little app it is possible, without to schedule a time in the System Preferences. The app receives a notification from iTunes, about the player state. If it...
- Software downloads 2008-05-02
- News to know: Microhoo; XP SP3 performance; Ubuntu; Google Finance
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: XP SP3 performance gains - Nothing to write home about Larry Dignan: Microsoft's quarter, outlook mixed; Client revenue misses; Xbox shines News.com: Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP Yahoo rolls out the welcome mat to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- novaPDF Standard Desktop (exe)
- novaPDF Standard Desktop allows you to create PDF files from any printable document, including emails, MS Office documents, Web pages, text. It works as a printer driver and you can print from any Windows application that supports printing - just set novaPDF Standard Desktop as the default printer and the...
- Software downloads 2008-04-02
- Adobe AIR alpha for Linux is out
- We released an alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux today so now we've got some form of support for Mac, Windows, and Linux with the exact same code/.air file. I've been playing with it for a few weeks and it's really impressive to see most AIR applications just work...
- Blog posts 2008-03-30
- True Remembrance (exe)
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- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- Submerge (dmg)
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- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales people
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- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Xslimmer (dmg)
- Xslimmer reduces the disk space taken up by Universal Binary applications preserving just the Intel or PowerPC version. Xslimmer is a new and user-friendly way to size down your Universal Binary apps, without losing any of their functionality by removing the code inside the Universal Binaries that does not fit...
- Software downloads 2008-03-17
- Mono project releases first IDE, Mono 2.0 into beta
- Novell's Mono project has delivered its first Integrated Development Environment IDE for Mono as well as a beta version of the next Mono platform. MonoDevelop 1.0, with support for Microsoft's .NET Framework 1.0, is an open source IDE for Linux developers building GNOME and ASP.NET applications....
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- MemoQ (zip)
- MemoQ is an integrated translation/localization environment ILE that boosts the productivity of human translators while maintaining high quality and increasing the consistency of translated texts. Forget about technical aspects of different file formats, recycle previous translations, and ensure the consistency of your translations with the use of glossaries. MemoQ contains...
- Software downloads 2008-03-11
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