{"id":374,"date":"2014-08-26T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T10:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tolnaitranslations.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2014-08-26T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T10:17:01","slug":"do-you-love-your-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tolnaitranslations.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Do you love your tools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like all professionals, translators use various tools to carry out their tasks.\u00a0And life is much easier when you actually enjoy working with these tools. You have deadlines to meet, thousands of words\u00a0to translate so clearly, having a crippled laptop and a sluggish CAT tool would\u00a0keep you away from your desk and would only make you feel frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>I admit, I&#8217;m an\u00a0Apple fan. Ever since I wrote my graduation thesis (on intercultural branding) and I saw the Think different campaign I have been seduced by their impeccable marketing, product and management strategies. So when I chose my workstation I went for a Mac, even though this meant installing a virtual machine in order to run MemoQ and Trados on it (by the way, why CAT tool developers ignore OS X is beyond me&#8230;). Anyway, it is not the purpose of this post to advertise their products :D, what I want to stress is that this beautiful machine on my desk makes\u00a0my working hours much more pleasant. It works like a psychological incentive, it makes me want to type faster and more, which helps me\u00a0enhance my productivity. \u00a0And if you add all the useful proprietary Apple apps, things are just great!<\/p>\n<p>On the software side, although I work with both Trados and MemoQ, I find the latter more user-friendly and flexible.\u00a0Maybe it&#8217;s because I like supporting the underdog in a competition, I don&#8217;t know, but the fact remains that whenever I have a choice between using Trados and\u00a0MemoQ, I use\u00a0MemoQ. I just like it better. Then there are all the social networking apps that make my days brighter: twitter, buffer, feedly&#8230; I just love using them across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>But enough about me. What about you? What tools do you own and love?<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Do%20you%20love%20your%20tools%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like all professionals, translators use various tools to carry out their tasks.\u00a0And life is much easier when you actually enjoy working with these tools. 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