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Send Your Resource Files in Just ‘One Click’
We get lots of iPhone, Android, iPad apps everyday for translation into more than one or two languages, and we have taken action to make translation to several languages easier and more user friendly than ever. After getting feedback from our clients, we made a big change to the system and wanted to update you. Now […]
New Translation Language Pairs for Software Localization Projects
We’re excited to announce the availability of more translation language pairs between European languages. Until recently, our Software Localization system had one fixed price across all language pairs. As a result, we always had a shortage of talented translators between some European languages. This shortage was worse for Scandinavian and Central European language pairs. In […]
Mobile App Translation that Makes Sense
How do you say the words badge or swipe in Spanish? Mobile apps use new keywords, which didn’t exist in English, until recently. Translating them right is critical for having popular localized apps. Translating iPhone and Android apps in a consistent and coherent way determines the success of mobile app localization. When end-users see a […]
Are You Ready for WPML 2.0?
WPML 2.0 is almost ready. It’s a major new version with improvements all around. We want to make sure that any WordPress translation clients don’t suffer from problems when upgrading. Changes in WPML are all over the place. There’s a new Translation Editor, a new Translator role, a new Translation Dashboard. Lot’s of new stuff. […]
Making Sure Translations Fit
Did you ever run into space issues with translations for iPhone or Android apps? I’m not talking about outer-space, the final frontier, but the space you’ve allocated for strings on the GUI. In many languages, especially German, French and Spanish, translations are often around 150% the length of originals. Since iPhone apps have to run […]
Most Popular Languages for iPhone and Android Localization
We’ve compiled statistics from all iPhone and Android localization projects in 2010 and checked which languages are most popular. Here are the results. ICanLocalize gets a fair number of mobile apps every week. The majority is still iPhone and Android is on the rise too. Often clients ask us which languages we recommend to translate […]
Translation Quality Feedback
Good translation is great, but it’s not enough for us. If our translation less than excellent, we’d like to know about it and fix it. Would you like to let your site’s visitors leave feedback about the translation? We can put this feedback to good use. If they say that translation is excellent, we’re happy. If […]
Rails Translation Made Easy
From time to time, we’re getting requests to support translation for Ruby on Rails (RoR) application. We’re starting to work on this and are looking for brave beta testers. Ruby on Rails includes great facilities for running multilingual websites. You can arrange the application’s texts in YAML files and the Rails i18n allows loading views […]
WordPress Training Schedule
Update: dial-in number for audio is United States 712 432 2827 PIN 169563 I’m very happy to see that there’s such high interest in our WordPress training and it’s time to move forward. The first session would be on Monday, July 19 at 5 PM Central European Time (GMT+2). We picked this time because it’s […]
WordPress Training
We’re planning a few WordPress training sessions, as live webinars. The purpose of these trainings is to teach folks how to use WordPress to build their business sites. Course Objectives Intro – a quick pass at what WordPress is and how you can use it. Business site basics – create static pages and a blog. […]